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ordered by relevance and dateReview: Queen Mother bio an unusual blend of frankness and royal reticence
Review | www.mercurynews.com | Nov 14, 2009
Review: Queen Mother bio an unusual blend of frankness and royal reticence
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Audiobook review: 'The Childrens Book zips by on a long drive
Review | www.star-telegram.com | Nov 13, 2009
Best literary listen for a very long drive
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'Standard' probes shadows of Abu GhraibNews of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses first broke in April 2004, unleashing graphic images across the media and the Internet: Photo after photo of naked Iraqi detainees, detainees with bags over their heads, detainees bound and posed in sexual positions.
Author Ken Auletta searches for the Google story
Review | seattletimes.nwsource.com | Nov 2, 2009
"Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" (The Penguin Press, 336 pages, $25.95), by Ken Auletta. Google is best understood in terms of billions. Three billion searches are conducted daily on the site. Company revenues last year exceeded $22 billion. It spent $1.76 billion for YouTube and $3.2
Book Review: Thieving heroine will steal your sleep - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine,
Review | www.sacbee.com | Aug 10, 2009
The story of Scandinavian author Stieg Larsson is the stuff of which one of his novels might be made. The transcendently gifted Larsson wrote a trio of thrillers, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.
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Review: 'How To Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood' delivers those details readers crave from a celebrity bio
Review | www.mercurynews.com | Nov 14, 2009
She demanded a different holder for each of the many cigarettes she smoked daily during the filming of "Cleopatra," and the holder's color couldn't clash with the cloth on any table at which she smoked.
Book review: John Irving's 'Last Night In Twisted River'
Review | www.mercurynews.com | Nov 7, 2009
The bear makes its first appearance on Page 28. Because we're in a John Irving novel, tragedy is practically guaranteed to follow. "It was an accident," a character declares after the unfortunate death that triggers the plot of "Last Night in Twisted River." "It's nobody's fault."
Review: 'Highest Duty,' pilot-hero Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger's memoir, soars
Review | www.mercurynews.com | Nov 4, 2009
An airplane crashes, killing its hapless pilot, in the opening pages of "Highest Duty," Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's highly readable, if by-the-numbers, memoir.
Review: 'The Good Soldiers' vividly captures the blood, violence and moments of humanity experienced by a battalion in the Iraq surge
Review | www.mercurynews.com | Oct 21, 2009
The Iraq war in David Finkel's heart-stopping new book is not the Bush administration's misguided exercise in hubris, incompetence and ideological fervor meticulously chronicled by Thomas Ricks in his benchmark 2006 study, "Fiasco.
