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Today's book review11.21.08 Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
Some books are riveting by the nature of their topic: Fresh biographies about the lives and business acumen of Warren Buffett and Ted Turner, for instance; or a new novel by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature; or perhaps a sordid tell-all penned by a disgruntled Hollywood insider spilling the beans on a famous film starlet. (more…) Reviewer Todd Wilkinson talks with author Oliver Morton. |
Previous Reviews
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11.20.08 A Great Idea at the TimeHow the Great Books turned an educational movement into a door-to-door sales pitch. |
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11.19.08 Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the TableWriters recall their most memorable meals.Reviewer Kendra Nordin interviews Amanda Hesser, editor of "Eat, Memory" |
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11.18.08 Reviews of “I See You Everywhere” and “The Flying Troutmans”Two new novels center on the complex, competitive love between sisters. |
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11.17.08 OutliersMalcolm Gladwell examines patterns in the lives of extraordinary achievers. |
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11.16.08 The Audacity of Hope – from the Monitor archivesBarack Obama gives readers a blueprint of his view that America requires "a different kind of politics." |
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11.15.08 SashenkaThe story of a fictional family followed through several generations of turbulent Russian history. |
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