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All Book Reviews
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All There Is
These love stories recorded by StoryCorps remind us what matters most.
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The Lady in Gold
Every stolen painting has a story. The tale behind this one is epic.
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FDR and Chief Justice Hughes
The overlooked story of the hardworking justice who stood up to one of America's most popular presidents – and won a victory for posterity.
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Da Vinci’s Ghost
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man has been called the world's most famous drawing. But what does it mean?
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The Last Holiday: A Memoir
Music legend Gil Scott-Heron's poignant memoir.
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Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton
A thoroughly researched, frank, and deeply engaging biography by Jeff Pearlman sheds new light on the player who was the heart and soul of the Chicago Bears.
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Wanted Women
What the West can learn from two fiercely intelligent Muslim women who took opposing paths in life.
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The Flame Alphabet
Marcus's novel has a meandering beginning but is a masterful examination of love and endurance.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo's story of residents in a Mumbai slum is meticulously researched and told with unblinking honesty.
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A Line in the Sand
An unsettling history of British and French machinations in the Mideast.
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Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
First test: See how you do with this book.
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Liberation Square
Egyptian journalist Ashraf Khalil brings insight and thorough reporting to his account of the end of the Hosni Mubarak government.
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Captain For Life: My Story as a Hall of Fame Linebacker
While football star Walter Payton's biography is making headlines, don't miss 'Captain for Life,' Harry Carson's poignant and revealing autobiography.
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Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes
British travel writer James Palmer offers a quick, highly readable account of a pivotal moment in China’s recent past.
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The Last Great Game
How the 1992 Duke and Kentucky teams took a trip into college basketball immortality.
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Girl Land
Anti-feminist provacateur Caitlin Flanagan takes us into the world of adolescent girls – but, unfortunately, fails to bring us into the 21st century.
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Fraternity
How a scholarship program brought color to Holy Cross
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Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
How we got to this grim pass in our political and economic system
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Kayak Morning
Veteran writer Roger Rosenblatt offers a second memoir about his struggles to cope with grief after the death of his daughter.
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Sometimes There Is a Void
A messy memoir from an important African voice.
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