Tue, May 01, 2012
“This is a real eye-opener and much might definitely prove helpful to American parents stressed out from constantly hovering over whining children and exhausted because their children still do not sleep through the night even at the advanced ages of three or four years – rare in France! “
Tue, May 01, 2012
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Sun, Apr 01, 2012
“A warm sun shines, people congregate, eat delicious food together, and smile a lot. Welcome to St. Denis; enjoy.”
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
Australian Sarah Turnbull, 27, took a year’s leave from her job as a television reporter in Sydney to “cram a lifetime of adventures into one unforgettable year” traveling in Europe.
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
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Wed, Feb 01, 2012
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Wed, Feb 01, 2012
The old blue alley cat Skilley is tired of scrounging for food in the market places of 19th century London and looks to Ye Old Cheshire Cheese Inn as a possibility for permanent and comfortable housing as a “mouser,” despite his handicap in that arena.
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
Adam Hochschild’s brilliant, moving To End All Wars seeks answers as to how and why the war went on as long as it did.
Sun, Jan 01, 2012
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Sun, Jan 01, 2012
Wishing all of our reviewers, subscribers, and friends a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. And lest we forget auld acquaintances, here are our staff's choices for the best audiobooks of 2011
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
Hiltzik’s exhaustive history of a turning point in American history combined with Traber Burns’ flawless reading is a must listen.
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
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Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“Accomplished stage actress and Audie Award-winning Narrator Kate Reading creates just the right voice for Edie, and for all the other characters, male, female, old, young, Inuit,“outsider,” as well as for McGrath’s descriptions of the harsh, challenging environment of one of the coldest places on earth, even in the summer. “
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
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Thu, Sep 01, 2011
In this novel, Princess Diana did not die in 1997, but, with the help of her factotum Lawrence, slipped away (selfishly? bravely?) and assumed another identity (as Lydia) in the United States.
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
A unique, unusual reading of a very funny, refreshingly honest description of one's responsibility of parenting.”
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
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Fri, Jul 01, 2011
With the same penetrating discernment, the same luminous prose, and the same understanding of the absurdity of the human condition that grace her novels, Joyce Carol Oates deconstructs the first year of her widowhood following the unexpected death of her husband, editor Raymond Smith, who succumbed to pneumonia in 2008
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
Death of the Liberal Class is Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges’s meticulously researched, clearly written, detailed historical analysis of why this country is in the mess it is now --- politically, socially, culturally, economically, and how it got here.
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
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Wed, Jun 01, 2011
Sarah Vowell’s Unfamiliar Fishes, a history of the 50th state Hawaii, is not the history one generally learns in school or from the mainstream media…. [Her] take on Hawaiians, writers, and politics in general is sharp, refreshing, and witty.
Sun, May 01, 2011
Historian Tony Judt (1948-2010) the author of eleven books, was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University and director and founder of the Remarque Institute.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
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Fri, Apr 01, 2011
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born in Nottinghamshire to a family of miners. This most controversial of his novels was banned in England until the 1960s.
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
In 1997 PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. He has also won American PEN's two highest awards: the PEN/Nabokov and PEN/Bellow awards. He is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.
Tue, Feb 01, 2011
ERIC METAXAS is the author of Amazing Grace, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about God (but Were Afraid to Ask), and thirty children's books. He is founder and host of Socrates in the City in New York City, where he lives with his wife and daughter. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Washington Post, and other publications. He has written for VeggieTales and Rabbit Ears Productions, earning three Grammy nominations for Best Children's Recording
Tue, Feb 01, 2011
CHARLES MCCARRY is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels and nine nonfiction books. He is a former editor at large of National Geographic and has contributed dozens of articles, short stories, and poems to leading national magazines. His op-ed pieces and other essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. For ten years he served under deep cover as a CIA operations officer.
Sat, Jan 01, 2011
“Tom Mueller’s eye-opening, entertaining expose Extra Virginity documents that the [Extra Virgin Olive Oil] industry is almost totally corrupt.”
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
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Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, winner of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction; The Whole World Over; and I See You Everywhere, winner of the 2009 Binghamton University John Gardner Book Award. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her short fiction has won several prizes, and her personal essays have been widely anthologized. She lives in Massachusetts with her family.
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Harriet Elinor Smith is an editor at the Mark Twain Project, which is housed within the Mark Twain Papers, the world's largest archive of primary materials by this major American writer. Under the direction of General Editor Robert H. Hirst, the Project's editors are producing the first comprehensive edition of all of Mark Twain's writings.
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
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Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Ken Follett was twenty-seven when he wrote Eye of the Needle, an award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller. After several more successful thrillers, he surprised everyone with The Pillars of the Earth, about the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages, which continues to captivate readers all over the world. His last book was the long-awaited sequel, World Without end, a number one bestseller in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, and France. He lives in England with his wife, Barbara Follett.
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of ten Cork O'Connor novels. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Visit his website at www.williamkentkrueger.com.
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Former journalist and ad copywriter, Philip Kerr lives in London and Cornwall with his family. This is his fifth Bernie Gunther novel. He is also the author of numerous other novels. See also Soundcommentary review of Kerr’s If the Dead Rise not, Editor’s Pick, August, 2010.
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
James Shapiro, a professor at Columbia University in New York, is the author of Rival Playwrights, Shakespeare and the Jews, Oberammergau and A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina) and The Gravedigger's Daughter.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Former journalist and ad copywriter, Philip Kerr lives in London and Cornwall with his family. This is his fifth Bernie Gunther novel. He is also the author of numerous other novels.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Peter Elkind is editor at large at Fortune magazine and an award-winning investigative reporter. He is the co-author of the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room about the Enron downfall and author of The Death Shift. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and Texas Monthly and is a former editor of the Dallas Observer.
Sat, May 01, 2010
Joan of Arc was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920. George Bernard Shaw's play, written shortly thereafter, premiered on Broadway in 1923.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Anita Brookner has written more than 20 novels. Her fourth, Hotel du Lac, published in 1984, won the Booker Prize. She lives in England.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine sine 1996, and all of the essays in What the Dog Saw first appeared in the pages of that magazine. He is the author of three other books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference; Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking; and Outliers: The Story of Success, all of which were number one New York Times bestsellers.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
John Lanchester is the author of the novels The Debt to Pleasure, Mr. Phillips, and Fragrant Harbor; and a memoir, Family Romance. He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, and The Daily Telegraph, among others. Among several other prizes, including the Whitbread and Hawthornden Awards, Lanchester was awarded the 2008 E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
David Sedaris is a playwright and a regular commentator for National Public Radio. He is also the author of the bestselling Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays on Ice, and Me Talk Pretty One Day. He travels extensively though Europe and the United States on lecture tours and lives in France.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
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