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Grippando's 'Intent' good beach read

Sunday, July 5, 2009

INTENT TO KILL. By James Grippando. Harper. 356 pages. $25.99. This book has it all: sports, crime, money and romance. It never dips too heartily into any one area, thereby holding the interest of both genders of readers.

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Colombian novelist's story expertly told

Sunday, July 5, 2009

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: A Life. By Gerald Martin. Knopf. 642 pages. $37.50.

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A succinct, insightful history

Sunday, July 5, 2009

ABIGAIL AND JOHN: Portrait of a Marriage. By Edith B. Gelles. Morrow. 339 pages. $26.99.

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Go wild about Wilde

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Thomas Wright's study of Oscar Wilde is hands down the most inventive biography of Ireland's celebrated (or infamous) author, poet and playwright. It takes a fascinating sojourn into what Wilde loved even more than trysts, taboos and witty banter.

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Story of immigrant soccer team uplifting

Sunday, July 5, 2009

OUTCASTS UNITED. By Warren St. John. Spiegel & Grau. 307 pages. $24.95. "Outcasts United" tells the story of the Fugees. Not the hip-hop group. These Fugees are soccer players.

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Happenings

Sunday, July 5, 2009

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'Nobody Move' a racy read

Sunday, July 5, 2009

NOBODY MOVE. By Denis Johnson. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 195 pages. $23.

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Tale relates Ottoman invasions of Europe

Sunday, July 5, 2009

THE ENEMY AT THE GATE: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe. By Andrew Wheatcroft. Basic Books. 339 pages. $27.50.

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'Memoir' examines wars with Iraq

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Few people are more intimately familiar with the details surrounding the United States' two declarations of war with Iraq than Dr. Richard N. Haass.

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'Home Safe,' Berg's 21st book a silly effort

Sunday, June 28, 2009

In these grisly economic times, it's a stretch to be empathetic with someone who has to go search for her $850,000 "nest egg," the premise of Elizbeth Berg's 21st novel. And the framework that silliness sits on isn't even new.

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'T.S. Spivet' story too self-aware

Sunday, June 28, 2009

In spots, "The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet" is wonderful. The fairy-tale/coming-of-age/adventure story soon has readers rooting for Tecumseh Sparrow Spivet, a 12-year-old Montana ranch boy, master cartographer and unlikely hero who is a little bit Huck Finn, a little bit Harry Potter and a little bit Holden Caulfield.

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Insightful stories of excess, loss

Sunday, June 28, 2009

In the February 2006 issue of Vanity Fair, Jay McInerney's answers to the monthly "Proust Questionnaire" were published in the magazine's back pages. The last question was, "How would you like to die?" McInerney's answer, "In bed with my true love after a night on the town," is a good encapsulation of the strivings and failures of the fictional characters who occupy his novels and short stories.

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Author out of depth in 'Center of the Universe'

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Many mothers can be called superhuman, but only a few one-of-a-kind moms are memoir material. Author Nancy Bachrach's mother, Lola, who is the main subject of "The Center of the Universe," might not be one of the few.

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Happenings

Sunday, June 28, 2009

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Book keeps reader guessing

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Bill Scheft's third novel introduces us to Phil Camp, a divorced fellow who is two-faced, appropriate since he also has two names. In this book-within-a-book, Camp writes a popular best-seller that he publishes using the pen name Marty Fleck.

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