Category: Book Reviews

December 29, 2011

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

Hitchen’s esophageal cancer inevitably throws a shadow over this spirited, provocative, prodigiously witty collection.

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December 29, 2011

A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block

NPR Book Summary 17th in the Scudder series. When a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins as per the...

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December 29, 2011

Ghost Hero by S.J. Rozan

NPR Book Summary Eleventh book in this series. Investigating a rumor about new paintings by a famous contemporary Chinese artist who has been dead for...

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December 29, 2011

Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner

NPR Book Summary Traces the history of the CIA from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the organization...

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December 29, 2011

The Nazi Officer’s Wife by Edith Hahn Beer

Autobiography of how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust.

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December 29, 2011

The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak

NPR Book Summary Follows young Jozef Vinich as he struggles to survive the brutal conditions on the Southern Front of World War I. Nominated for...

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November 22, 2011

The Big Necessity by Rose George **** (of 4)

Summary: Everybody poops. Nobody talks about it. It’s a big problem everywhere. In the First World disposing of sewage consumes too much water and generates...

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November 20, 2011