Literature
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Surf legend comes to life in new book
Jun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- He was an outlaw, a swindler and a con man, not to mention a shiftless vagrant who lived to avoid work. All that would have made Miki Dora just another sm...
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Best SellersMay 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Fiction 1. The Host, Stephenie Meyer 2. Love the One You're With, Emily Giffin 3. Sundays at Tiffany's, James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet 4. Star Wars: Legac...
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A family's story unfolds in 'The Rain Before it Falls'
May 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Jonathan Coe is a brilliant English novelist who isn't as well known here as he should be. If you've read his early work, you've discovered his manic inventiveness. "The...
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James Bond returns in 'Devil May Care'
May 27, 2008 11:00 pm - LONDON -- A catsuited model in stiletto heels strode the deck of a British warship with Royal Navy helicopters roaring overhead. It was not a bout of naval hijinks, but ...
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'Snuff' is not up to snuff
May 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Devoted readers of Chuck Palahniuk will hardly need a warning. But as with most of his previous eight novels, it's best to start with a reviewer's disclaimer: Plenty of ...
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Fascinating tales of modern-day cannibalism
May 26, 2008 11:00 pm - "Among the Cannibals: Adventures on the Trail of Man's Darkest Ritual" (Smithsonian Books, 278 pages. $25.95), by Paul Raffaele: You know the standard image about ca...
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Author appearancesMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - • Meet author Bryan Davis as he signs copies of his books and discusses his new young adult book series, "Eternity's Edge: Echoes From the Edge," from 10 a.m. to noon Ma...
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Best sellersMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Fiction 1. The Host, Stephenie Meyer 2. Sundays at Tiffany's, James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet 3. Phantom Prey, John Sandford 4. The Whole Truth, David Baldacci ...
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Roger Mudd memoir captures a radical eraMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - "Half the trick," Bobby Kennedy confided to Roger Mudd during a campaign stop in 1968, "is to look like you're having fun." Though the TV newsman always remembered Kenne...
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Author explores 'the new old age'
May 21, 2008 11:00 pm - A journalist takes readers inside his mother's housing complex for the elderly and inside the complicated reality of aging in America today. Halfway through his explorat...