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Tom Clancy's 'Dead or Alive' again tops fiction best-seller list
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Sunday 01/02/2011

'True Grit': a tale of loss and redemption

Sometimes you read a book at the wrong time. That was the case for me with Charles Portis' 1968 novel "True Grit," which I first picked up in the early 1970s, after seeing the film with John Wayne. Back then, I had no idea what Portis was doing; I read the book as if it were in the vein of, say, Sid Fleischman's "By the Great Horn Spoon!," a novel for young readers about the Gold Rush. Both take place in the Old West, and both involve adolescent protagonists, but there the resemblance ends.

Sunday 12/19/2010

Self-published book

Picture book

Amanda Beard writing memoir

NEW YORK - Gold medal-winning Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard wants to set an example outside the water, as well as in it.

Sunday 12/12/2010

Tori Spelling to write two new books

Tori, Tori, Tori

Anne Rice pens second in 'Seraphim' series

More than 30 years after penning the now-classic "Interview With a Vampire," best-selling author Anne Rice retains her knack for spinning an intoxicating yarn.

Author's novels inspire home decor

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - In writer Steve Berry's home - just as in his historical thrillers - everything has meaning.

Sunday 12/05/2010

Author seeks to understand Israel in novel that becomes a travelogue

PHILADELPHIA - Sarah Glidden's first graphic novel - "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less" - is not just her debut, but a travelogue with a decidedly personal bent that invokes a deft blend of history, skepticism and, ultimately, acceptance.

Musician-actor, Common, working on book

Common's sense

Serious undercurrents in Rushdie's new novel

It is hard to overstate the lightheartedness and love with which Salman Rushdie conveys this brief tale of a boy on a quest.

Self-published book

About the

Sunday 11/28/2010

Nora Ephron reflects on aging and things she can't remember

NEW YORK - Nora Ephron is thinking about algorithms.

This week's best-sellers

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Dan Rather sums it up

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Sunday 11/28/2010

Debra Ginsberg's new novel set in suburbia

By MICHELLE WIENER, For The Associated Press

Posted: November 28, 2010

The secrets and lies of the residents of suburban Fuller Court are barely suppressible to begin with, and when a pregnant teenager named Diana shows up unexpectedly on her biological father's doorstep, she sets in motion all sorts of discord and chaos.

Local author

Updated: November 28, 2010 - 10:15 am

What a guy!

Sunday 11/21/2010

'Decision Points' alternative pick of the Conservative Book Club

By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press

Posted: November 21, 2010

NEW YORK - Fitting for a presidential memoir, George W. Bush's "Decision Points" is a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the 84-year-old institution that offers top sellers and critical favorites at discount prices.

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Posted: November 21, 2010

'I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas'

Saturday 11/20/2010

Rick Springfield shares all of his dark secrets in 'Late, Late at Night'

By STEVE SPEARS, St. Petersburg Times

Updated: November 20, 2010 - 5:17 pm

Decades before he became TV's Dr. Noah Drake and a rock idol in MTV's golden age, he was merely Richard Springthorpe, a suicidal Australian teen who considered himself, as he laments, uglier than a baboon's rump.

Sunday 11/14/2010

Bestsellers

Posted: November 14, 2010

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Sportswriting helped Gay Talese hone his knack for storytelling

By DAVID L. ULIN, MCT News Service

Posted: November 14, 2010

NEW YORK - What is it, Gay Talese is asking, about sports? It occupies a messy, emotional territory in which we embrace, and, just as easily, discard, heroes. "It's not just losing the game," Talese reflects, voice etched with the soft syllables of southern New Jersey, where he was born in 1932. "You lose the game enough, or get knocked out enough, you lose your job."

More 'Earth's Children'

Posted: November 14, 2010

More 'Children'

Dennis Lehane brings back detective duo

By OLINE H. COGDILL, MCT News Service

Posted: November 14, 2010

Long before Dennis Lehane looked at crime's affect on a neighborhood in the gripping "Mystic River," ventured to the chilling "Shutter Island" or went back in time with the historical "The Given Day," he made his career writing about Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro.

Self-published book

Posted: November 14, 2010

Happy faces

Sunday 11/07/2010

Best-sellers

Posted: November 07, 2010

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Marlo Thomas brings the funny with new book

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press

Posted: November 07, 2010

Lots of people remember the humorous things that happened when they were kids. Marlo Thomas remembers more than most.

Book has firsthand accounts from 20th century

By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press

Posted: November 07, 2010

"We Were There" is a collection of stories from people who escaped the Titanic, fought in the trenches, spent hard time in prison camps, met the Beatles, saw the mushroom cloud and went to the moon.

Local author self-publishes children's e-books

Posted: November 07, 2010

Children's e-books

Saturday 11/06/2010

Keith Richards tells it like it is and was in memoir titled 'Life'

By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press

Posted: November 06, 2010

NEW YORK - Mother Nature knows how to welcome Keith Richards.

Sunday 10/31/2010

Not much candor or insight in Condoleezza Rice's memoir

By BOB DROGIN, MCT News Service

Posted: October 31, 2010

As national security advisor and then secretary of State to President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice never displayed any doubt or admitted any errors in the White House decisions that led to war in Iraq.

Rushdie memoir coming

Posted: October 31, 2010

Rushdie memoir

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Posted: October 31, 2010

Rainy Day fun

Jack Reacher is back with another page-turner

By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press

Posted: October 31, 2010

Don't pick up the latest Jack Reacher novel if you don't have some time on your hands, because "Worth Dying For" is difficult to put down.

Best-sellers

Posted: October 31, 2010

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Sunday 10/24/2010

Philadelphia book publisher BRAAINS! behind mashup

By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press

Posted: October 24, 2010

PHILADELPHIA - The undead have created a whole new life for Quirk Books, the brains - or rather the BRAAAINS! - behind the monster best-seller "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."

'Wicked Appetite' isn't Evanovich's best dish

By CAROLYN LESSARD, Associated Press

Posted: October 24, 2010

Pastry chef Lizzy Tucker is known for making the best cupcakes in Salem, Mass. And in Janet Evanovich's new novel, "Wicked Appetite," she's one of only two people with the ability to locate empowered objects.

Patrick Kennedy memoir

Posted: October 24, 2010

'Coming Clean'

Mark Twain back on best-seller list

Posted: October 24, 2010

Back as best-seller

Local self-published author

Posted: October 24, 2010

Doo-wop book

Sunday 10/17/2010

Actress Marlo Thomas reminisces on a life of laughter in new book

By SUSAN KING, Los Angeles Times

Posted: October 17, 2010

LOS ANGELES - When Marlo Thomas was a teenager, she was always crazy about some boy.

'Immortal Beloved' leaves a lasting impression

By CAROLYN LESSARD, Associated Press

Posted: October 17, 2010

When Nastasya watches Tracy, her best friend and immortal, severely injure a man using "magic" powers, she decides it's time to re-evaluate her life - and her friends. Now 449 years old, Nastasya realizes she's on a self-destructive path and her friends are literally draining her.

Book briefs

Posted: October 17, 2010

Lewis memoir

Sunday 10/10/2010

Fun with 'Dick and Jane and Vampires'

By NICK OWCHAR, MCT News Service

Posted: October 10, 2010

Fanged characters have sunk their teeth - sorry about that - into the adult and young adult book markets, so is it really a surprise to find a new children's book called "Dick and Jane and Vampires"?

Former president gives a sense of day-to-day life in Oval Office

By TIM RUTTEN, MCT News Service

Posted: October 10, 2010

Presidents Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover might be bracketed together for a number of reasons.

'Fall of Giants' review

Posted: October 10, 2010

Grand in scope

Self-published local author

Posted: October 10, 2010

Workbook

Sunday 10/03/2010

British spies spill secrets in official history of M16

By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press

Posted: October 03, 2010

LONDON - It's James Bond, with bureaucracy and cramped office space.

Bestsellers

Posted: October 03, 2010

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Crime mushrooms in Ruth Rendell's 'Portobello'

By ED SIEGEL, MCT News Service

Posted: October 03, 2010

Portobello Road cuts a swath through one of London's most fascinating sections. It abuts posh neighborhoods and poor housing. The nouveau hip stroll a pace or two ahead of old money. At the weekend Portobello Market, you can pick up tacky trinkets or precious antiques. It's the great meeting place of the toffs in bright new restaurants and the toughs in their miserably smoke-free pubs.

Russia's Communist era

Posted: October 03, 2010

Stalin's Russia of 1936 is an unforgiving place challenged by shortages of food, clothing and housing. Under the dictator's policies, each person lives in fear of being reported as disloyal.

Sunday 09/26/2010

Deepak Chopra writes dramatic novel on the life of Muhammad

By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press

Posted: September 26, 2010

Countless books have been written about the life of Muhammad, Islam's prophet. Spirituality guru Deepak Chopra has added another to the mix: A novel generally rooted in facts but liberally embellished.

Murder case leads to fringe religious group

By MICHELLE WIENER, For The Associated Press

Posted: September 26, 2010

John Sandford's fourth Virgil Flowers novel opens with three deaths: one clear-cut case of premeditated murder and two suspected murders done up to look like suicides.

Best-sellers

Posted: September 26, 2010

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Sunday 09/19/2010

Barack Obama's children's book pays tribute to groundbreaking Americans

By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press

Updated: September 19, 2010 - 10:08 am

NEW YORK - Coming two weeks after Election Day, a book from President Barack Obama for some of the nation's nonvoters: inspirational stories for children about American pioneers.

Terry McMillan fans will wait to exhale

By CONNIE OGLE, MCT News Service

Posted: September 19, 2010

Terry McMillan's breakthrough novel "Waiting to Exhale," about women in Phoenix negotiating variations of romantic turmoil, broke the color barrier to dominate the best-seller lists and inspired a Forest Whitaker film. It also made guys look like dogs, which was just the icing on the cake for its amused fans.

Monkeyshine abounds in 'Ape House'

Updated: September 19, 2010 - 10:08 am

Sara Gruen's last novel, the enchanting circus-set "Water for Elephants" in 2006, became a best-seller primarily through word of mouth, and I doubt there's a book club in America whose members haven't read it.

Local author self-publishes 'Dear Honeybunches'

Updated: September 19, 2010 - 10:09 am

Post World War II

Best sellers

Updated: September 19, 2010 - 10:09 am

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Sunday 09/12/2010

Renegade author Tao Lin relishes role as an irritant

By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press

Posted: September 12, 2010

NEW YORK - Tao Lin's new novel is based on a true story - his own.

Deceased Saramago's style jarring to newcomers

By ROB MERRILL, Associated Press

Posted: September 12, 2010

"The Elephant's Journey" by Jose Saramago is a book serious readers should love. Consider the pedigree: a recently deceased Nobel Prize-winning author, a benevolent animal protagonist and a space on bookstore and library shelves in the hot category Historical Fiction.

Book briefs

Posted: September 12, 2010

Hawking's theory

Sunday 09/05/2010

CIA spy now a novelist

By ALLEN PIERLEONI, MCT News Service

Posted: September 05, 2010

MENLO PARK, Calif. - Barry Eisler had pedaled his bicycle to the crowded Cafe Borrone here, arriving shortly before the lunchtime rush. The chic outdoor cafe is one of several public places where he likes to sit undisturbed and anonymous, pecking away on his laptop, fleshing out another best-selling thriller.

Best-sellers

Posted: September 05, 2010

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Book briefs

Posted: September 05, 2010

Booming Brazil

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