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• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of June 14. 2010

  Featured: Rob Sheffield. Plus: Pat Benatar, Tori Spelling, Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton,Anarchists and Secret Agents; Glenn Beck, Coulter, Bret Easton Ellis, Alan Furst...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jun 14, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of June 7, 2010

  Featured: Spencer Wells' Pandora's Seed. Plus: Facebook Effect, Bourdain, Andrew McCarthy, Richard McGregor, What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Broke, USA; DeMille, Cronin...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jun 08, 2010

• The Early Word Swimsuit Issue: New Summer Reading, Week of June 1, 2010

  Laurell K. Hamilton, Steve Martini, Stephenie Meyer, Ann Brashares, Clive Cussler, Shannon McKenna, Charles Martin, Jeffery Deaver, Sara Douglass, Eric Van Lustbader, Taylor Anderson, Aimee Bender...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on May 31, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of May 10, 2010

  Featured: Martin Amis. Plus: Dale Brown, Emily Giffin, Hobb, Hunter, Steinhauer, Preston; Intellectual Devotional Biographies, Steinbrenner, Junger, Billy Graham, America's Hidden History, Henry Aaron, American Insurgents...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on May 09, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 26, 2010

  Featured: Betsy Ross and the Making of America. Plus: Winston's War, Molly Ringwald, Wes Moore, Martin Luther King, Jr.; Allende, Candace Bushnell, Patterson, J.R. Ward...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 26, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books For the Week of April 19, 2010

  Featured: Peter Carey. Plus: Baldacci, Elizabeth George, Iris Johansen, Quick, McCall Smith, LaHaye, Woods; Sarah Silverman, Antwone Fisher, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding, Jan Morris, Kai Bird...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 20, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 5, 2010

  Featured: Anne Lamott's Imperfect Birds. Plus: C.J. Box, Elizabeth Berg, Butcher, Chiaverini, Evans, Feist, Sue Miller; Carol Burnett, 'Randy Pausch', The Bridge, Contested Will Shakespeare...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 06, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 29, 2010

  Featured: Dan A. Wells' I Am Not A Serial Killer. Plus McEwan, Patricia Briggs, Kellerman, Anchee Min, Lisa Jackson; Hannity, Raquel Welch, Franklin Pierce, Evelyn Waugh...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 30, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 22, 2010

  Featured: The Male Brain. Plus: Fred Harvey's Empire, Robin Sharma, Letters of Sylvia Beach, Jennifer 'Love-Aholic' Hewitt; Harlan Coben, Robards, Christopher Moore, Mosley, Anne Perry...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 22, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 15, 2010

  Featured: 'Brutal World of Early Baseball'; Plus: Roger Maris, Michael Lewis, “Dog” Chapman, Talkin' 'Bout Willis, Al-Qaeda, Cro-Magnon. James Patterson, Scottoline, Stephenie Meyer, Lisa Lutz...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 15, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 8, 2010

  Featured: Chang-rae Lee. Plus: Clive Cussler, Linda Fairstein, James Rollins, Linwood Barclay, Danielle Trussoni; Karl Rove, 'Genius in All of Us', 'Eliot Spitzer's Tragic Reign'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 08, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 1, 2010

  Featured: Clint Eastwood, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Plus: Jodi Picoult, Lauren Oliver, Erica Spindler, Kate White; Mitt Romney, 'Son of Hamas', 'Circle of Greed', 'Lift'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 01, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 22, 2010

  Featured: John Banville. Plus: Robert B. Parker, J.D. Robb, Danielle Steel, Kim Harrison, S.J. Parris, Brian Jacques; Annabelle Gurwitch, Jennifer Mascia, 'Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Feb 22, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 8, 2010

  Featured: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Peter Straub. Plus: Willie Mays, 'The Brat Pack', Timothy Ferris; Sarah Blake, Jackie Collins, Ally Carter, Heather Brewer...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Feb 08, 2010

• The Early Word for the Week of February 1, 2010

  Featuring Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo. Plus Bohjalian, Robert Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Patterson, Lauren Conrad; Jenny Sanford, 'Yalta', 'Mr. Good Enough', Kevin O'Hara, Rebecca Rosen...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Feb 01, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 11, 2010

  Featured: The Game. Plus: Comeback America, Malcolm Jones Memoir, Clash of Arab Civilizations, Bruce Lee; Crais, Amy Bloom, Willig, Amy Greene, Charlie Huston, Elizabeth Kostova...

  Review by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 10, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 4, 2010

  Featured: Anne Tyler; 'Americans in Paris' Under Nazi Occupation. Plus: T. Jefferson Parker, Delinsky, Godwin. Elizabeth Gilbert, Naisbitt, Elvis Plays House, Alison Weir's Anne Boleyn...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 06, 2010

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 23, 2009

  Black Friday Cometh, as does... Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Lisa Scottoline, Joseph Wambaugh, J.M. Coetzee, Jim Butcher, Al Roker; Howie Mandel, Phish, Jazz Loft Project...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 24, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 16, 2009

  'Going Rogue'; The following book's sales may Palin comparison: Patterson, Cussler, Eco, 'Alex Rider', Nabokov, Armstrong, 'The Immortals' 'Battle for America 2008'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 17, 2009

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 9, 2009

  King, Coonts, Bond, Niven, Howard, Rutherford, Poyer, Hart, Finch; Agassi, Carlin, Scalia, Zadie Smith, Led Zeppelin, 'Miracle on the Hudson', 'Biggest Loser' 'Flow', 'Elephant Whisperer'...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 09, 2009