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Book Review: The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd
Sometimes a story is its own best reason for its revival, and that's definitely the case here.
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Book Review: The Polish Woman by Eve Meckler
Is she or is she not?
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Book Review: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited remains one of the best novels of the 20th century.
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Book Review: Invisible by Paul Auster
Paul Auster's writing skills draw in and hold readers of his 15th novel.
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The New Canon: The Sea by John Banville
The Sea is a dark and haunting story of a widower who returns to the scene of his first romance.
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Book Review: One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
Despite its passion and intensity, the reading is fast, propelled by the sense of impending explosion that propels the narration.
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The Early Word (Fiction): New Books for the Week of October 5, 2009
A.S. Byatt, Robert B. Parker, Charlaine Harris, Richard Paul Evans, Jonathan Kellerman, Melissa De La Cruz, Jeannette Walls, R.A. Salvatore, Terry Pratchett, Scott Westerfeld...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of September 21, 2009
Ellroy, Atwood, Gabaldon, Ishiguro, Keillor, Paretsky, McCall Smith, Woods; Glenn Beck, Craig Ferguson, Karen Armstrong, Neil Sheehan, MacKenzie Phillips, Steve Hodel...
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Book Review: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilmann
The classic feminist utopia novel. It's short, highly readable and no-nonsense, like most women.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of September 14, 2009
Dan Brown's long-awaited The Lost Symbol, third Joyce Carol Oates book of 2009, Lackey, Mitchard; Edward Kennedy, Michael Jackson, Krakauer, Luntz, 'Hawk and the Dove'...
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