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Min’s life explored in new memoir
Chinese author Anchee Min, whose first memoir, "Red Azalea," told the story of her youth in China growing up under the leadership of Chairman Mao and introduced many to the true horrors of that regime, picks up here where she left off in "A Cooked Seed."...
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'Ophelia Cut' is tense, intricate
Posted May 12, 2013 6:00 AMA young woman makes a bad decision and her father ends up a murder suspect in "The Ophelia Cut," John Lescroart's latest courtroom drama featuring defense attorney Dismas Hardy. Friends become enemies and moral dilemmas abound in this tense and intricate...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald dead, but not forgotten
Posted May 12, 2013 5:00 AMHas-beens in Hollywood usually stay that way. Yet one writer who died there nearly forgotten 73 years ago had one of the most remarkable posthumous revivals in literary history. F. Scott Fitzgerald is back on the big-screen with Leonardo DiCaprio and...
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Book notes: Meet local mystery writer Saturday
Posted May 10, 2013 6:00 AMLocal author Annie Hansen reads from and signs copies of "Give Me Chocolate," her new mystery book that is set primarily in the Tri-Cities, at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Geneva History Center.
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