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Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian,
Crown, 2010 - Reviewed by Judi Morrel
Chris Bohjalian, winner of the 2002 New England Book Award,
tackles social issues (midwifery in Midwives, homeopathic
medicine in The Law of Similars, homelessness in The
Double Bind), about which his readers often have passionate
feelings. He is a master at turning those feelings upside
down . . .
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The Way of the World by Nicolas
Bouvier, New York Review Books Classics, 2009 - Tiberiu Popa
In the summer of 1953, while still a student at the University
of Geneva, Nicolas Bouvier embarks on a long and often perilous
journey together with his friend, Thierry Vernet, who would later
provide the illustrations for this book. In about a year and a half
the two young men, driving an unimposing and fairly unreliable Fiat
Topolino, explored postwar Yugoslavia. . .
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36 Arguments for the Existence of God
by Rebecca Goldstein, Pantheon, 2010 - Reviewed
by William Watts
Rebecca Goldstein's 36 Arguments for the Existence of
God has a wonderfully misleading title. It is not a
theological treatise or an exercise in piety, but a lively
novel. The main character, Cass Seltzer, is a university
professor who has just published a book. . .
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The Great Virginia Triumvirate by
John Kaminski, University of Virginia Press, 2010- Reviewed by
George Geib
John Kaminski has dedicated his career to studies of the
Founding Fathers, and in the process he has collected a large
database that he calls "The Founders on the
Founders." It's a collection of contemporary
descriptions and opinions voiced about the revolutionary
elite.
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