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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Book review: FICTION

FICTION

THE ATLANTIS CODE, by Charles Brokaw. A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of Atlantis. November release.

NO LESS THAN VICTORY, by Jeff Shaara. The crowning achievement in Jeff Shaara's World War II trilogy, revealing the European war's unforgettable and harrowing final act. November release.

THE HUMBLING, by Philip Roth. Into a shattering account of terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for a bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking end. November release.

NONFICTION

LIT: A Memoir, by Mary Karr. About getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. November release.

CHILDREN'S

NUBS: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle, by Brian Dennis. Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs' life changed when he met Marine Maj. Brian Dennis. November release.

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