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THE NEW REPUBLIC
Lionel Shriver
Harper
ISBN 978-0062103321
373 pages
$26.99
Reviewed by Fiona Zublin
Not many people knew who Lionel Shriver was in 1998. That's when she
wrote "The New Republic," a novel about journalists and terrorism. ...
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CRUISING ATTITUDE
Heather Poole
William Morrow
ISBN 978-0061986468
262 pages
$14.99
Reviewed by Lisa Bonos
When Heather Poole became a flight attendant right out of college in the
1990s, she had no illusions of its being a glamorous ...
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THREE BOOKS ON ILLEGAL (OR NOT) NARCOTICS
Various
Various
ISBN N.A.
N.A. pages
$N.A.
Reviewed by James Norton
The American discourse on narcotics has always been more complex than
"Just say no," but in recent years it has reached new depths of
murkiness. Support ...
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THE LAST NATURAL: Bryce Harper's Big Gamble in Sin City and the Greatest Amateur Season Ever
Rob Miech
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s
ISBN 978-1250001450
356 pages
$26.99
Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley
In the fall of 2009, the Harper family of Las Vegas took a step that
within less than a year proved of immense ...
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PAX ETHNICA: Where and How Diversity Succeeds
Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac
PublicAffairs
ISBN 978-1586488291
270304 pages
$28.99
Reviewed by David Scheffer
As a legal scholar and practitioner, I have long examined ethnicity
through the prism of international ...
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BEFORE THEY'RE GONE: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks
Michael Lanza
Beacon
ISBN 978-0807001196
197 pages
$24.95
Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle
Michael Lanza begins this account of family camping by sketching the new
- but not improved - look that some national parks will take on ...
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POWER AND CONSTRAINT: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11
POWER AND CONSTRAINT: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11Jack Goldsmith
Norton
ISBN 978-0393081336
311 pages
$26.95
DEMOCRACY'S BLAMELESS LEADERS: From Dresden to Abu Ghraib, How Leaders Evade Accountability for Abuse, ...
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ASSIGNMENT TO HELL: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle
Timothy M. Gay
NAL Caliber
ISBN 978-0451236883
508 pages
$26.95
Reviewed by Robert MacNeil
The cause of 60 million deaths, World War II remains the greatest
cataclysm the human species has yet inflicted on itself: an ...
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CRUSOE: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth
Katherine Frank
Pegasus
ISBN 978-1605983349
338 pages
$27.95
Reviewed by Joanna Scutts
The wrecking of a vessel on a remote island, from "The Odyssey" to "The
Tempest" to "Lost," is an evergreen beginning for stories about ...
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THE IMPOSSIBLE STATE: North Korea, Past and Future
Victor Cha
Ecco
ISBN 978-0061998508
530 pages
$29.99
Reviewed by Krys Lee
Victor Cha can't easily forget the desolation he encountered on his
first visit to North Korea. "As the plane taxied on the tarmac, there
was no ...
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