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Tim Gebhart lives in Sioux Falls, SD, where he practices law in order to provide shelter for his family, his dogs, and his books. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and his blog de guerre is A Progressive on the Prairie.
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Book Review: Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser
Millhauser's work presents a view of life and the human experience that most others don't see or for which they lack the imagination.
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Book Review: Sting Like a Bee - The Muhammad Ali Story by Jose Torres
Nearly 40 years after first being published, Sting Like a Bee remains a clear contender for the title of classic.
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Book Review: Yalo by Elias Khoury
Under torture, a young Lebanese man forced to write his life story has kaleidoscopic memories of a life affected by civil war.
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Book Review: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu
Real people, not just political stances, help focus an examination of the cultural battle over comic books.
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One Way to Deal with Lead in Children's Products: Ban Kid's Books
Congressional overreaction to lead in products from China could lead to older children's books being removed from used bookstores and libraries.
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Book Review: This Republic of Suffering - Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Harvard University's president examines how hundreds of thousands of Civil War deaths changed America in unexpected ways.
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DVD Review: 2012: Science Or Superstition
Speculation and New Age theory combine with a bit of science to explore whether 2012 portends the apocalypse or a reawakening.
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Book Review: Commander of the Faithful - The Life and Times of Emir Abd el-Kader by John W. Kiser
The biography of a 19th century Islamic jihadist reveals why he was praised as one of the "few great men" of his century.
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Book Review: Karnak Café by Naguib Mahfouz
With a novella, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz takes readers inside Egyptian culture and politics in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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The Best Books of 2008 (and Some Less than First-Rate)
Wanting to include the best book he read in 2008, Blogcritic Tim Gebhart's 2008 "best of" list goes a bit beyond 2008.
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