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Mother's Day 2013: 10 best books
Mother's Day 2013: 10 best new books for all kinds of moms
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5 memoirs to add to your 2013 reading list
A new crop of memoirs takes readers to the worlds authors once knew.
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World's five largest companies
For the first time in nearly a decade, the world’s five largest public companies are all American affair These are the Top 5, as of mid-April 2013.
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2013 Pulitzer Prize winners: 4 excellent books
Months before the Pulitzer Prize committee got there, the Monitor's book critics had already let readers know that these four books were something special. Here's why.
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3 of spring's most anticipated novels
From the latest novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout to a new novel by legendary author James Salter, this fiction roundup includes some of spring's most anticipated titles.
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Pearl Harbor: 5 top books on the attack
It was 69 years ago today – Dec. 7, 1941 – that the Japanese Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Four US battleships were sunk and 188 aircraft were destroyed. On the US side, the human toll was horrific, with 2,402 personnel killed and 1,282 wounded. For reflections on this historic day, we recommend one of the five titles below.
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Best books of 2010: fiction
In 2010 Monitor reviewers critiqued hundreds of books. Here's a list of the 11 fiction titles they considered the most outstanding. To assist you with your holiday shopping, each title here has a link that allows you to purchase the book – even as you help to support The Christian Science Monitor
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Best books of 2010: nonfiction
In 2010 Monitor reviewers critiqued hundreds of books. Here's a list of the 28 nonfiction titles they considered the most outstanding. To assist you with your holiday shopping, each title here has a link that allows you to purchase the book – even as you help to support The Christian Science Monitor
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The Killing of Crazy Horse
Pulizer Prize-winning historian Thomas Powers sets the record straight once and for all about the death of the messianic Oglala chief.
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How Indonesia keeps Islamic extremists at bay
Indonesia's version of counterterrorism could be a helpful example to follow in the campaign against extremism.
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Joseph Ellis on "First Family" and the love story of John and Abigail Adams
The likes of Abigail and John Adams will never come again, says Ellis.
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Opinion: Time to be a better neighbor, India. If you don't, China will.
President Obama's trip to India underscored India's importance in global security and global finances – a democratic counter to an aggressive China. But India's poor foreign policy and botched regional relations have been holding it back.
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Can Obama engage in 'self-critique and self-correction'?
After his party's 'shellacking' in the midterm elections, President Obama is getting lots of advice about changes he needs to make – including changes in his character as well as his style.
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Tom Bosley remembered as 'Happy Days' patriarch
Tom Bosley passed away on Tuesday in California. Television made Tom Bosley a star, but he was also known for his work on Broadway.
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Parker/Spitzer struggles through good intentions and weird moments
CNN's debut of its latest prime-time news magazine show, with Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker, was very earnest about trying to be serious and bipartisan. But it hit some jarring notes.
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Eliot Spitzer, Kathleen Parker aim for ideological center
Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker's audience: the people who would feel more comfortable at Jon Stewart's million moderate march than watching Bill O'Reilly on Fox News Channel or Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
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Bob Dylan in America
Bob Dylan was not so much a sponge as an alchemist, taking common materials and creating new art.
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Eliot Spitzer on CNN: Does he deserve a second chance?
Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former New York governor, co-hosts a high-profile new talk show beginning Monday.
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Edward Albee: American playwright's goal is to stir humans to change
Albee views drama as a catalyst and creates plays that hold up a mirror to human behavior and make people think.
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Roger Ebert returning to television in new movie review show
Roger Ebert is going to produce and appear on a new movie review television program for PBS.
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Could the media have ignored Terry Jones and his Koran-burning plan?
The media have been criticized for giving Terry Jones and his Koran-burning scheme publicity. But the Web has changed the media landscape. Ignoring the event wasn't an option, media experts say.
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The Twilight of the Bombs
An end to the threat of a nuclear bomb? Not quite yet.
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Freedom
Jonathan Franzen’s latest is already the year’s biggest novel.
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Let’s Take the Long Way Home
How do you say goodbye to a once-in-a-lifetime friendship?
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Opinion: Mainstream news media: not dead yet
To survive in the Digital Age, journalism needs to be simultaneously fast-paced and substantive, snarky and thought-provoking. Or, at the very least, it must find some middle ground where illuminating investigative pieces and Mel Gibson telephone call mash-ups can coexist.
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Architects of Power
How Roosevelt and Eisenhower transformed the United States into a global superpower.
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What to read about the Khmer Rouge
Chief Khmer Rouge executioner "Duch" faces a jail sentence. Which books best dissect the horror of the Khmer Rouge regime?
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Difference Maker Helping migrant workers prove who they are – and avoid exploitation
When Haitians cross into the Dominican Republic to work, they often lack official documents that can help protect them from abuse. That's where Johnny Rivas steps in.
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The Fiddler in the Subway
This collection of features by Pulitzer prize winner Gene Weingarten confirms his reputation as one of the best.
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Omar al-Bashir, fresh off press crackdown in Sudan, defies ICC in visit to Chad
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir today flew to Chad on his first visit to a full member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since his arrest warrant was issued. He left amid a severe crackdown on press freedoms at home.
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