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A Sense of Direction
This first-rate travel book is – like all the best travel books – most fascinating when it has the author at its center.
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Reader recommendation: A Hogan for the Bluebird
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10 best books of May, according to Amazon
Amazon's editors picked these 10 books as the best for the month.
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Harry Potter comes to Kindle
All the books in the Harry Potter series will arrive in the Kindle lending library – free for Amazon Prime members – on June 19.
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New book claims that Jack the Ripper was – a woman?
Author John Morris points to Lizzie Williams, the wife of a suspect, as the possible culprit.
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'50 Shades of Grey' won't be coming to some libraries
'We do not collect erotica,' says one staff member at a library where the books will not be stocked.
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'MOMumental': 5 stories about raising children
Author Jennifer Grant advises and confesses in her new book – here are five of her anecdotes.
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Mother's Day: 10 great books for Mom
You've probably already done the classics – try these 10 books for a gift this Mother's Day.
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Did Ben Bradlee have lingering doubts about Watergate?
A new biography of Ben Bradlee by Jeff Himmelman quotes Bradlee saying that – decades later – he still had "a little problem with Deep Throat."
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Howard Carter: 6 of his first moments in the tomb of King Tut
Archaeologist Howard Carter details how he found and entered the famous tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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Bestselling books the week of 5/10/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis: their Paris years
Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis may not have much else in common. But they'll always have Paris.
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Reader recommendation: Like Water for Chocolate
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'Unintended Consequences' by Edward Conrad: already 'the most hated book of the year'?
'Unintended Consequences' by former Bain Capital managing director Edward Conard argues that economic inequality is a good thing rather than a problem.
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