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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on
Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane
Mayer - Doubleday, 2008 - Reviewed by Bill Watts
Mayer's book is important, and will be of interest to anyone who
is concerned about the health of our Republic. Drawing on a series
of articles she published in the New Yorker , Mayer knits
together into one compelling narrative…
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The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael
Grube, HarperCollins 2007 - Reviewed by Judi Morrel
If you enjoyed Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code , then you
will love this smart, literary thriller by Michael Gruber. With a
finely drawn cast of characters including …
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian by Sherman Alexie, Art by Ellen Forney,
Little, Brown and Co. 2007 - Reviewed by Dan Barden
To call Alexie our greatest contemporary Native American writer
is sort of like calling Lance Armstrong our greatest contemporary
Texan American cyclist.
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Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson, Alfred
E. Knopf 2004 - Reviewed by Dick McGowan
Shadow Divers may be the perfect book for history buffs. The
book recounts the discovery of a German submarine sunk off the
coast of New Jersey. But the boat appears in no military record and
its identity is unknown.
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Balzac and The Little Chinese
Seamstress , by Dai Sijie, Random House 2001
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The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007 - Reviewed by Paula Saffire
All of us who are readers know, perhaps unconsciously, that
reading is subversive. But to find it portrayed as deliciously
subversive is a true delight. Two recent books, one by a
Chinese author living in France, the other by a popular British
author, lay out the transformations…
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Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for
America's Soul by Ken Miller, Viking, 2008 - Reviewed
by Michael Zimmerman
In a thoroughly engaging and informative style, Brown University
biologist Ken Miller takes on the concept of intelligent design and
explains…
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