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'The Battle for Normandy' storms the beaches anew
Antony Beevor's Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege sold more than a million copies. His absorbing D-Day: The Battle for Normandy could ...
Books roundup: Self-help
From workplace advice for women to the best advice for de-cluttering your home, here are four new titles that you might want ...
Mary Karr talks about memoirs, alcohol abuse and her new 'Lit'
Mary Karr's best-selling 1995 memoir, The Liars' Club, about her rough Texas childhood with alcoholic parents, "kick-started ...
New in paper: Stephen King's 'Just After Sunset'
The "wonderfully wicked" short-story collection is the horror master's first since 2002.
Book Buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing
The story of a Harlem teen named Precious is set to hit the big screen; "pioneer" cooking is hot; and Target gives a boost to ...
| Poker, Power Go Hand In Hand, Author Says
American history is filled with powerful men who have have honed their competitive strategies around the card table. In Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, author James McManus details how the game's logic is reflected in our history of battles and business.
Refusing Flu Shots? Maybe You're A 'Denialist'
At the Ocean Charter School near Marina del Rey, Calif., 40 percent of the 2008 kindergarten class received vaccination exemptions. Author Michael Specter says the parents in this upscale enclave are prime examples of what he calls "denialism."
To See The Future, Use The Logic Of Self-Interest
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita knows what will happen in the future on a host of critical questions. Will Iran develop a nuclear bomb? Will North Korea? What major companies or economies will merge, grow or fall apart? De Mesquita has been predicting the future for 30 years — to a reported 90 percent success rate. Host Scott Simon talks to him about the new book that reveals how his secret: The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future.
How Market Crash Helped Hedge Fund Operator
Before the financial crisis hit, John Paulson was just your run-of-the-mill hedge fund operator, worth millions of dollars. But when the market crashed, Paulson made billions. How he did it lies at the heart of a new book called The Greatest Trade Ever. The book's author, Gregory R. Zuckerman, offers his insight.
Sapphire's Story: How 'Push' Became 'Precious'
The gritty realism of the film Precious is even more intense in the novel Push, upon which the film is based. Author Sapphire discusses the inspiration for her work — and her initial reluctance to allow her work to become a film.
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Book Reviews
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Stephen King’s Glass Menagerie
When an enormous transparent dome settles over a small town in Maine in Stephen King’s new novel, it’s just fine with Big Jim, the local tyrant-in-waiting, and his pet goon squad.
The Critic’s Critic
A valuable new biography of Samuel Johnson, the most eminent of all literary critics.
Barbara Kingsolver’s Artists and Idols
This novel, about a boy’s consequential bonds with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, is a call to conscience and connection.
Animal Planet
Amy Gerstler’s poems — skillful in every kind of comedy, yet deeply serious — show a fondness for animals without sentimentalizing them.
Happy Days
An argument that can-do optimism has hardened into a suffocating force that bears little relation to genuine happiness.
Her Royal Century
This official biography chronicles the parties, the games, the trips, the charitable causes — and the trouble thanks to Edward VIII.
Master of Disaster
John Irving’s new novel follows a father and son through 50 years in “a world of accidents.”
She Did Go Home Again
A wonderfully intelligent and frank memoir about the Mennonite upbringing Rhoda Janzen returned to after an emotional and physical crisis.
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Top 5 Best Sellers
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Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE GATHERING STORM, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown
3. TRUE BLUE, by David Baldacci
4. LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER, by John Irving
5. PURSUIT OF HONOR, by Vince Flynn
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE BOOK OF BASKETBALL, by Bill Simmons
2. SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
3. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom
4. WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell
5. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts
2. PUSH, by Sapphire
3. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan
4. THE SHACK, by William P. Young
5. OLIVE KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham
2. THE UNTAMED BRIDE, by Stephanie Laurens
3. DEADLOCK, by Iris Johansen
4. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson
5. HOT ON HER HEELS, by Susan Mallery
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
3. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max
4. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls
5. BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell
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