Literature
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'The Skeleton Box' is Gruley's best work to dateJun 04, 2012 2:00 pm - The mythical village of Starvation Lake, Mich., is an authentic realm of piney woods, dead man's curves, working-class bars, lakefront cottages, friendly neighbors, town...
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‘Fifty Shades’ reading is not always so discreetJun 03, 2012 7:51 am - NEW YORK — Ashley Cummings had a little mishap while engrossed in “Fifty Shades of Grey” on her way to the San Francisco subway. Head down, clutching her iPad, she ran s...
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Dr. Ruth isn’t done speaking upJun 03, 2012 7:38 am - NEW YORK — There’s no mistaking the elfin figure in the size-4, blue suede mocs who answers the door to apartment 10-O. This despite the fact that her hair, only recentl...
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Edwards’ mistress publishing memoirJun 02, 2012 8:27 pm - RALEIGH, N.C. — John Edwards’ mistress Rielle Hunter is publishing a memoir about her relationship with the former presidential candidate and their daughter. Jennifer Ca...
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Fla. library puts racy ‘50 Shades’ back on shelvesJun 02, 2012 7:51 am - VIERA, Fla. — A Florida county is putting the racy romance trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” back on its library shelves. The Brevard County Library System had pulled 19 co...
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Book notes: Meet blues guitarist Buddy GuyJun 01, 2012 6:00 am - Ÿ Authors John McEvoy (“Photo Finish”) and Jack Fredrickson (“Hunting Sweetie Rose”) discuss and sign copies of their books at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at Centuries and ...
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Batavia author’s book relives Northwoods memoriesMay 30, 2012 2:05 pm - For many of us who grew up in the Chicago suburbs, Wisconsin was the place where we spent the vacations of our youth, whether going to church camp at Lake Geneva, tent c...
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'Cliff Walk' is chilling murder mysteryMay 30, 2012 6:00 am - In his Edgar Award-winning first novel, “Rogue Island,” published in 2010, retired AP writing coach Bruce DeSilva introduced readers to the affable Liam Mulligan, a crim...
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'SecondWorld' will leave you breathlessMay 28, 2012 11:00 pm - The popcorn novel of the summer has arrived, and Jeremy Robinson delivers an action fest that rivals the best of James Rollins, Clive Cussler and Matthew Reilly. NCIS ag...
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Should scientists-authors be more forthcoming about their flaws?May 28, 2012 9:29 am - “Doubt is our product,” a tobacco executive observed in the late 1960s, infamously summing up the effort to undercut the link between smoking and cancer. Since then, man...