Displaying articles for: July 2012

Gone, Gone, Gone

Buffeted by tragedies -- personal and national -- two teens try to find love.

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Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate

Should we care about a new posthumous recording of the legendary pianist? Yes.

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Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach

A crime reporter uncovers a big story in a novel that suggests Wodehouse in Thailand.

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A Hologram for the King

Stranded in Saudi Arabia, a salesman confronts the hollowed-out remains of his life.

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Why Does the World Exist?

Wrestling with the eternal quandary at the heart of the universe.

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Ghost Milk

London's "psychogeographer" looks at the transformations wrought by Olympic spectacle.

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Between the Lines

Love leaps off the page.

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Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy

In surviving eight assassination attempts, the queen cemented the British monarchy's popularity.

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True Believers: A Novel

A sixties radical confronts the twenty-first century.

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Mountains of the Moon

A riveting debut novel follows a young survivor on a determined odyssey.

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Snow-Storm in August

A quarter century before the Civil War, tensions over slavery erupted in the nation's capital.

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Alif the Unseen

Scheherezade's tales get a techno-thriller update in this inventive new novel.

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May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
Happy Money

“Money can’t buy happiness” is one of the oldest clichés around, but what if it’s all about how you use it? Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton give compelling advice on how to get the most pleasure out of your piggy bank.

The Philadelphia Chromosome

Expounding the well-known link between genetics and cancer, this scientific history recounts the initial discovery of a gene mutation that eventually led to enormous breakthroughs in the fight against leukemia. 

She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret.  A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.