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Do you believe in love at first sight?
HOW TO LOVE:
Choosing Well at Every Stage of Life
By Gordon Livingston, M.D.
203 pp. Da Capo Lifelong Books
Reviewed by Karna Converse
The secret to a happy marriage? Choose the right person to marry.
At first glance, this advice seems a bit flippant, but Dr. Gordon Livingston, author of How to Love, believes it worthy of
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A tarnished old teapot
AMERICAN TEMPEST:
How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution
By Harlow Giles Unger
288 pp. Da Capo
Reviewed by Sue Ellis
The events leading up to the Boston Tea Party are as tarnished as a neglected silver teapot. We've been trying to buff our nation's fight for independence to a sparkle for over two hundred years, but the truth is,
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A return to the past to feed the hungry of tomorrow ...
2011 STATE OF THE WORLD:
Innovations that Nourish the Planet
182 pp. The Worldwatch Institute
Reviewed by Loretta Carrico-Russell
2011 State of the World: Innovations that Nourish the Planet (SWI) by the Worldwatch Institute comes out at a time when sustainable farming or �agroecology� is moving into the
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Guests went home with her silverware
CLEOPATRA:
A LifeBy Stacy Schiff384 pp. Little, Brown and Company
Reviewed by Jane Woodward Elioseff
Cleopatra: A Life is so full of portraits and battles, double-crosses and assassinations, that it is difficult to give a sense of the narrative in a few paragraphs.
Stacy Schiff writes that Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC) was the last
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Nonfiction Apologize in the first place
FALL FROM GLORY: The Men Who Sank the U.S. NavyBy Gregory L. Vistica390 pp. Simon & Schuster
Reviewed by Diane Diekman
Secretary of the Navy John Lehman largely orchestrated the Reagan military buildup of the 1980s. To obtain funding for a massive force of aircraft carriers and new strategic homeports designed to counter a perceived
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The world's greatest man-made crisis
REWILDING THE WORLD:
Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution
By Caroline Fraser
416 pp. Picador
Reviewed by Lynne M. Hinkey
Rewilding refers to the reintroduction of wildlife to native habitats and their restoration to healthy, functioning ecosystems. In Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution,
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�the best pipe bomb I ever saw�
SEVEN SHOTS:
An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath
By Jennifer C. Hunt
344 pp. University of Chicago Press
Reviewed by David Hoekenga
In Seven Shots, Jennifer Hunt writes passionately about the officers of Six Truck of Emergency Services Group of the New York City Police Department, who were responsible for thwarting
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Emerging tall and straight
AS THE SYCAMORE GROWS
By Jenny Miller Helderman
354 pp. The Summers Bridgewater Press
Reviewed by Dennis Rizzo
Nothing seems more difficult for a man to handle than the issue of wife abuse. In As the Sycamore Grows, Jenny Miller Helderman gives an in-depth look at this topic and holds no punches.
In 2007 Ginger McNeil was an
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�One continued lye�
THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES:
The Tea Party's Revolution and
the Battle over American History
By Jill Lepore
212 pp. Princeton University Press
Reviewed by Bob Sanchez
...the scenes of the revolution...must fade upon the memory of the world, and grow more and more dim by the lapse of time. -Abraham Lincoln, 1838
In 1773, colonists tussled over
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A universal truth
JANE�S FAME:
How Jane Austen Conquered the World
By Claire Harman
277 pp. Henry Holt
Reviewed by Denise Yagel
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of an Austen-themed idea has a ready-made audience. But in Jane�s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World, biographer Claire Harman rises above the clamor that often
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David and Goliath
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WITH WINGS LIKE EAGLES:
A History of the Battle of Britain
By Michael Korda
336 pp. HarperCollins
Reviewed by Tony Williams
There are few stories that match the heroic and dramatic Battle of Britain in 1940. It offers all the elements of a great epic: soaring rhetoric, leadership of the discredited politician returned from exile, dashing young
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And why it isn't Latin
THE ENGLISH IS COMING!
How One Language Is Sweeping the World
By Leslie Dunton-Downer
352 pp. Touchstone
Reviewed by Eric Petersen
Imagine this scene: a terminal in France's busy Charles de Gaulle airport. Three Japanese executives from Tokyo arrive and are greeted by their hosts-three French executives. Later, as they dine together and
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Speaking from the grave
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, VOLUME 1
Kindle edition
University of California Press
Reviewed by Bob Sanchez
In this Autobiography I shall keep in mind the fact that I am speaking from the grave.
--Mark Twain
Let me emphasize that I'm reviewing an electronic version of the Autobiography. Volume I of the book itself is either God's gift
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The torrid zone
THE TENTH PARALLEL:
Dispatches from the Fault Line
between Christianity and Islam
By Eliza Griswold
336 pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Reviewed by Sarah Morgan
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat;
But there is neither East nor West, border nor
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Snakes and terrible insects abound
KINGDOM OF ANTS:
Jos� Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of
Natural History in the New World
By Edward O. Wilson and Jos� M. G�mez Dur�n
120 pp. The Johns Hopkins University Press
Reviewed by Lynne M. Hinkey
Jos� Celestino Mutis is arguably one of the most accomplished natural scientists of the 18th century, and one of the least
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