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Sedaris' 'Owls' isn't that original, even when it is

David Sedaris doesn't write like a writer. He writes like someone who writes for a living. That's a different thing, and not necessarily a bad one: Sedaris can be the life of your two-person party if you turn to his essays for quick, easy diversion and nothing more. But only a man with column space to fill would devote the first eight pages of ...

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Cookbook awards season comes to a close with plenty of new volumes to recommend.

Time to stock your shelves with a new cookbook or two. The James Beard Foundation announced its winners May 3 for its annual competition. The International Association of Culinary Professionals also announced their winners recently. Note that there are several overlapping winners from both groups...
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Best-sellers

Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
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Best-sellers

Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
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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.