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Weekend Read: British journalist delves into her mother's past and finds how it shaped them both
Incest, alcoholism, robbery, gunfire, murder, sensational court trials — these are among the building blocks of the dysfunctional-family memoir, and in She Left Me the Gun , Emma Brockes puts a check mark next to each.
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The Romance Reader: 'The Wyoming Cowboy'
"The Wyoming Cowboy" by Rebecca Winters; Harlequin ($5.50, paperback)
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'Girls of Atomic City' goes behind Manhattan Project scenes
"The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II" by Denise Kiernan; Touchstone Books ($27)
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Curses, ghosts and miracles enliven 'Kings and Queens of Roam'
"The Kings and Queens of Roam" by Daniel Wallace; Touchstone ($24)
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'Lucky Bastard' by Deborah Coonts is a sure bet
"Lucky Bastard" by Deborah Coonts; Forge ($25.99)
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Words' ancient history
When researchers from England's University of Reading recently announced they had discovered 23 "ultraconserved" words - words, that is, which appear to have come down from an ancestral language 15,000 years old - I couldn't help thinking of John D'Agata and his 2010 book "About a Mountain."
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New book illuminates the pitfalls widows face when returning to the dating scene
I suspect my children will want to see me throw myself on my husband's funeral pyre, the better to tie up all the loose ends.
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Walter Mosley, getting back on familiar turf
When last we saw Walter Mosley's detective Easy Rawlins, he had just lost control of a car he was driving on the Pacific Coast Highway north of Malibu. This was in the closing pages of the 11th (and apparently final) Rawlins book, "Blonde Faith," published in 2007. "The back of my car hit something...
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Anthology gives readers the scoop on 'Troubleshooters' series
The shelves in the romance section of bookstores are crowded with tales of former or active Navy SEALs and other special operation forces.
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Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta discuss the magic of 'Midnight's Children'
"Midnight's Children" is Salman Rushdie's sweeping, multigenerational story of the birth of independent India and the life of the big-nosed, big-hearted protagonist, Saleem Sinai.
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BUSINESS
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