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"Tis now common to suspect Impossibilities whenever two Ladies live too much together - that horrible Vice ... call'd Sapphism."

Carl Hiaasen is a weird, sick, hilarious guy and his new novel, Sick Puppy, is aptly titled. The hero of Sick Puppy is Twilly Spree, a rich, weird young man who is so passionate about doing right that he often does, well, wrong. So when he sees rich Florida lobbyist …

... pick up a copy of One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night. You won't be disappointed.

Can we possibly have a less likable journalist to play the role of martyr than Judith Miller of The New York Times?

Does listening to an audiobook count as “reading” a book? Apparently this question is a common one in some book forums and recently The New York Times did a piece on the topic, quoting a few authors as saying they’d rather have their books read then listened to. So what’s …

Shell Game: A Mallory Novel by Carol O’Connell Hooray, Mallory is back! Carol O’Connell has created a wonderful protagonist in Kathleen Mallory. She was adopted as a young girl by a police detective at a time when she was a thief and a liar. Now she’s a cop but too …

Is human nature today the same as it was 50, or 500, or 5,000 or 50,000 years ago?

...read these books once. I must warn you though, there is the danger of them becoming habit-forming.

Imagine you are a seven-year-old who's known years of escalating conflict, suddenly transported to an entirely foreign land.

Faster, faster, faster! That sometimes seems to be the mantra of friends, colleagues and advertisers. Get a faster computer. Get a faster car. And it’s also, appropriately, the title of a book by James Gleick, an author with the rare gift of making the complicated not only interesting and easy …