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Book reviews from The Roanoke Times

A history of 2 remarkable journeys - 10/16/2011

Beyond strategy, statistics - 10/16/2011

Coming-of-age story made fresh by a gifted storyteller - 10/16/2011

In England, a tale of 2 nations - 10/16/2011

Recalling a lifestyle that;s being driven to extinction - 10/9/2011

Scarlet Letter; redux - 10/9/2011

Death-defying exploration in the name of science - 10/2/2011

Historian;s nonfiction debut is a bit of a drag - 10/2/2011

New series of short stories disappoints - 9/25/2011

A hero, after his wartime heroics - 9/25/2011

Unsustainable - 9/25/2011

How willpower works

- 9/11/2011

A long fight back - 9/11/2011

The legal side of the Civil War

- 9/11/2011

'Stranger' not for the squeamish

- 9/11/2011

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'Flash and Bones' an intriguing puzzle

- 8/28/2011

BOOKS COMING SOON

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A secret, lonely life

- 8/28/2011

Pulling back the curtainon the wine business

- 8/28/2011

The politics of grief - 8/28/2011

Hollins alum rewrites New Testament stories - 8/21/2011

Both Lolas worth effort to know them - 8/21/2011

Death doesn't stop Dresden - 8/21/2011

Refreshing look at true-crime murder case - 8/21/2011

Rick Perry, Texas governor and recently declared GOP presidential candidate, is the subject of new book by James C. Moore. - 8/21/2011

Tudor tale poorly served by bland 'Queen' - 8/14/2011

A powerful voice - 8/14/2011

Coming-of-age tale provokes, satisfies - 8/14/2011

Waits opens up in book of interviews - 8/14/2011

Mystery a winner for 'Da Vinci Code' fans - 8/14/2011

Reporter Nick Davies signed to write account of News Corp. scandal - 8/14/2011

Chick lit fans, rejoice! - 8/7/2011

A bleak crime novel - 8/7/2011

History of a notable American family - 8/7/2011

3 beach reads - 8/7/2011

What keeps Va.'s 'lost' towns alive - 8/7/2011

Linda Ronstadt broke barriers for women as one of the top-selling artists of her generation, and she's going to detail how she did it in a new memoir for Simon & Schuster. - 8/7/2011

Siddons' newest dramatic novel is a page-turner - 7/24/2011

A devil of a time in small-town USA - 7/24/2011

A criminal mind. Or is it? - 7/24/2011

"A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD." By Jennifer Egan. Alfred Knopf. 288 pages in hardcover. - 7/24/2011

Sheila Bair, a key government official during the 2008 financial crisis, has a book deal. The Free Press will publish Bair's "Bull by the Horns" next year, before the 2012 election. - 7/24/2011

The return of Kyle Swanson - 7/17/2011

Good news, Tom Clancy fans: It's a new hero - 7/17/2011

Well played - 7/17/2011

Jim Minick, a writing professor at Radford University and former columnist for The Roanoke Times' New River Valley Current, has won the 2011 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance's award for nonfiction for his book "The Blueberry Years." - 7/17/2011

A frightening 'what if?' - 7/17/2011

How New York City became unequaled in the '20s - 7/10/2011

Embracing paradox over certainty set him free - 7/10/2011

1970: a pivotal year - 7/10/2011

Herman Cain is the latest presidential contender with a book deal. - 7/10/2011

When a young woman hits a deer with her car on a lonely coast road in Maine, Mike Bowditch, a 25-year-old game warden, gets the call. But when he arrives at the scene, he finds only a car with a smashed front end. Both the woman and the carcass are gone. - 7/3/2011

Monroe Doctrine - 7/3/2011

Writer's block leads guest to dredge up family secrets - 7/3/2011

New civil rights atrocity: use of child soldiers - 7/3/2011

Jimmy Connors has a memoir coming, with a few overhead smashes promised. - 7/3/2011

'House' an inventory of couple's lives after Germany - 6/26/2011

Living up to the golden badge - 6/26/2011

Traditional mystery becomes unconventional - 6/26/2011

'Rental' not worth a purchase - 6/26/2011

Rapper 50 Cent's newest work of fiction will have an anti-bullying message. - 6/26/2011

-- tuesday -- - 6/20/2011

beware 4 deck hed will go here please - 6/12/2011

The funny gene skipped Handler's family, friends - 6/12/2011

Novel imagines artist's prolific time with doctor - 6/12/2011

Jennifer Hudson is working on a memoir, mostly about food. - 6/12/2011

Chance to see Nazi Germany with uniquely American eyes - 5/29/2011

Book about tennis' early Open era good, but 'High Strung' is misnomer - 5/29/2011

'Pacific Air' suffers from shallow research - 5/29/2011

FICTION - 5/29/2011

Amazon releases Hitchens essay on bin Laden death - 5/29/2011

An eye-opener about a war we've closed the book on - 5/29/2011

Lincoln on War - 5/29/2011

Take a ride way out West with cowboy noir - 5/22/2011

A portrait of Barack Obama's mother - 5/22/2011

Old-school newspaperman tries to teach traditions - 5/22/2011

The visionary - 5/15/2011

When Carrie discovered the city - 5/15/2011

Crime novelist Robert B. Parker is gone, but his most popular series will continue. Parker's estate and publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons announced that new "Spenser" and "Jesse Stone" novels will be written. Michael Brandman, a longtime friend of Parker's, will handle the "Jesse Stone" books. Ace Atkins will take on Spenser. Parker died last year at age 77. "Sixkill," a Spenser novel completed before his death, was released May 3. - 5/15/2011

Baldacci brings back Maxwell, King and delivers the unexpected - 5/15/2011

THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN: A Novel," by Garth Stein. Harper Paperbacks. 336 pages. $14.99 - 5/15/2011

Albert Brooks is one of those screen artists whose face doesn't readily spring to mind when his name is spoken. He is nonetheless an accomplished actor, writer and director in what might be described as the cerebral-lite area of comedy. - 5/8/2011

Love of acting shines despite outsider status - 5/8/2011

Plausable plot makes financial suspense thriller engrossing - 5/8/2011

A scholarly look into causes of Civil War - 5/8/2011

A lecture by John Granger, known as the "Hogwarts professor," is being presented by Friends of the Blue Ridge Library. His talk, "Unlocking Harry Potter: Seven Keys for the Serious Reader," is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 17. - 5/8/2011

Marriage meets the money pit - 5/1/2011

Memoir as cool as the man himself - 5/1/2011

A remarkable tome on remembering - 5/1/2011

Styron's daughter pens revealing memoir - 5/1/2011

A monument to a vanished lifestyle - 5/1/2011

Book shows Faulkner from a different perspective - 4/3/2011

Ian Weir is introduced to U.S. audiences this week with ''Daniel O''Thunder'' - 4/3/2011

Battles in Washington rivaled battles at sea - 4/3/2011

''Turning the Tide'' tells of World War II''s Battle of the Atlantic - 4/3/2011

There will be some new fall reading for the kids: a new Maurice Sendak book. - 4/3/2011

'Townie' a disturbing peek into youth of its author - 3/27/2011

In play - 3/27/2011

Mom finds redemption in old manuscript - 3/27/2011

Journalist takes readers back to future - 3/27/2011

Michelle Obama has signed with the Crown Publishing Group for a book about healthy eating and the garden she started on the South Lawn of the White House. - 3/27/2011

MEMOIR - 3/27/2011

"BEAUTIFUL MALICE," by Rebecca James. Bantam. 272 pages. $25 (hardcover) - 3/20/2011

'Uncensored''Uncensored' - 3/20/2011

'Tiger's Wife' a powerful debut - 3/20/2011

A family tale of apartheid, redemption - 3/20/2011

A compelling murder mystery - 3/20/2011

Bill Cosby has not run out of words or wisdom. - 3/20/2011

A family navigates mental illness - 3/13/2011

An engaging history of royal women - 3/13/2011

A memoir to savor - 3/13/2011

Picoult again explores hot-button moral issues - 3/13/2011

A signed copy of Justin Bieber's memoir and a visit to the office of author and Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Kate White are among the offerings on a new website from HarperCollins Publishers. - 3/13/2011

'West' an entertaining novel of great scope - 3/6/2011

Tragic love story - 3/6/2011

Crowell writes another gem - 3/6/2011

Couric compiles advice from 'Extraordinary Lives' - 3/6/2011

'Radio Shangri-La' scores journalistically - 3/6/2011

Life of singer Ethel Waters simmers in 'Heat Wave' - 2/27/2011

Bogie's enduring appeal - 2/27/2011

Runaway slaves led buildup to Civil War - 2/27/2011

THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION. By Aaron Sorkin. Samuel French, 108 pages - 2/27/2011

FICTION - 2/27/2011

Jesse James is revved up to tell his side of the story. - 2/27/2011

New details emerge about American Revolution - 2/20/2011

Memoir of love and lossMemoir of love and loss - 2/20/2011

Comic's essays feel a little like padding - 2/20/2011

Legend lost amid subplots - 2/20/2011

Tatum O'Neal has not finished telling her life story. - 2/20/2011

'Daughter' a contrast of ancient traditions - 2/13/2011

Chess champion defeated himself - 2/13/2011

Looking for a "Jane Eyre" type story that doesn't involve killing vampires or zombies, but weaves plenty of secrets, ghosts and assorted crazy characters into a vivid adventure? - 2/13/2011

Sen. Joseph Lieberman is working on a book about his Jewish faith. - 2/13/2011

A gentle lesson about identity - 2/13/2011

Chick lit, but with bombs - 2/6/2011

Missing girl becomes mired in gossip - 2/6/2011

Practice makes perfect - 2/6/2011

"UNLESS." By Carol Shields. - 2/6/2011

Kids will get big laughs from 'Dogs' - 2/6/2011

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." - 2/6/2011

COPPOLA: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq. By Chris Coppola. NTI Upstream. 265 pages. $24.99 - 1/30/2011

An unfailingly hopeful look at love, loss and good sourdough bread - 1/30/2011

Rich tapestry of fact, fiction - 1/30/2011

Natural state - 1/30/2011

This little pig gets a passport: Olivia takes Venice - 1/30/2011

Case closed: An unpublished Dashiell Hammett story is coming out decades after his death. - 1/30/2011

FICTION - 1/30/2011

An insightful but incomplete 'Revival' - 1/23/2011

Instead of antennae, this time he grows whiskers - 1/23/2011

Naval campaigns that shaped the world - 1/23/2011

BORN ROUND: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater. By Frank Bruni. Penguin. 368 pages. $16 - 1/23/2011

Sissy Spacek writing memoir, 'Barefoot Stories' - 1/23/2011

An uplifting, too-easy portrayal of ballet's creation - 1/16/2011

Prestige in publishing - 1/16/2011

Memoir exposes a dream as folly - 1/16/2011

Clare Vanderpool's "Moon Over Manifest" has won the John Newbery Medal for the "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." - 1/16/2011

Amish country tames spoiled family - 12/26/2010

Shreve's usual themes make a satisfying story - 12/26/2010

'Lincoln's Way' - 12/26/2010

Modern spin on Bronte's classic loses substance - 12/26/2010

Biography of royal wife is one of the best - 12/26/2010

The commentator fired by National Public Radio in October for his remarks about Muslims has a deal to write two books. - 12/26/2010

A gift for the sports lover in your life - 12/19/2010

You can train your aging brain - 12/19/2010

Palin on Palin - 12/19/2010

What book are you currently reading? - 12/19/2010

Amazon.com and Penguin Group are sponsoring the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award that will, for the second year in a row, have two categories: general fiction and YA novel. - 12/19/2010

$5 was a lifeline - 12/12/2010

3 of the year's best bios - 12/12/2010

'Decoded': a love story about hip-hop - 12/12/2010

A treat of words and music - 12/12/2010

KON-TIKI: Across the Pacific in a Raft. By Thor Heyerdahl. Skyhorse. 304 pages. $12.95 - 12/12/2010

Advice book offers great lessons for beginning dog owners - 12/5/2010

Steve Martin explores art world - 12/5/2010

Faux memoir of real person doesn't work as historical fiction - 12/5/2010

A stand-alone story in the Camel Club series - 12/5/2010

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. After my father died, the book that sort of saved my life was Gabriel García Márquez's novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.' - 12/5/2010

A lighthearted coming-of-age with serious undercurrents - 12/5/2010

FICTION - 11/28/2010

Dupre's book examines biblical role of Virgin Mary - 11/28/2010

Lewis Black reflects on being lonely at Christmas - 11/28/2010

Dan Rather is in the mood for "Summing Up." - 11/28/2010

The fun lies in getting away with the evil deed - 11/28/2010

What book are you currently reading? - 11/21/2010

Working farm dog deals with challenges of nature - 11/21/2010

Battered, not broken - 11/21/2010

Tim Tebow is working on an inspirational memoir. - 11/21/2010

Lehane brings back detective duo - 11/21/2010

Eighth-grader Abby Lovitt isn't rich, and she has so many chores that she doesn't have time to do much else. She stays busy from the time she gets off the school bus until she drops into bed. - 11/21/2010

Former president delivers unexpectedly engrossing history of his 8 years in office - 11/14/2010

A portrait of the 'carnivorously ambitious' Winston Churchill - 11/14/2010

Another fast-paced action tale with Jack Reacher - 11/14/2010

Visual masterpiece for kids and adults - 11/14/2010

NEVER GROW OLD - 10/31/2010

FICTION - 10/31/2010

Some great short stories; some too graphic - 10/31/2010

A memoir by Salman Rushdie is coming in 2012. - 10/31/2010

Living and learning in garbage heaps - 10/31/2010

A life between - 10/24/2010

What about the 5th 'w'? - 10/24/2010

Super page-turner - 10/24/2010

A heroine returns - 10/24/2010

Denise Richards is writing a book for those who find life a little complicated. Gallery Books announced the actress, former model and ex-wife of actor Charlie Sheen is working on an inspirational memoir about "her personal struggles." The memoir will "touch on universal themes of love and loss, as well as marriage, divorce, and motherhood." - 10/24/2010

Firsthand accounts a fun read - 10/24/2010

An unfiltered look back - 10/10/2010

Funny 'Curable' an intellectual romance novel - 10/10/2010

What book are you currently reading? - 10/10/2010

True crime begets lovely, whimsical tale - 10/10/2010

Why English is lots of fun - 10/10/2010

Endurance, marriage tested on the trail - 10/3/2010

Thriller reveals procedures, tactics of intelligence operatives - 10/3/2010

A justice and a gentleman - 10/3/2010

Bloomsbury USA has acquired North American rights to "Everybody Matters," a memoir by human rights activist Mary Robinson. - 10/3/2010

Bat-ter up! - 10/3/2010

Bumbling scientist takes center stage in McEwan's illuminating 'Solar' - 10/3/2010

CIVIL WAR WIVES. By Carol Berkin. Knopf. 361 pages. $28.95 - 10/3/2010

Escapism as good as retail therapy - 9/26/2010

2 Cold Warriors, patriots, friends - 9/26/2010

A dangerous writer - 9/26/2010

Schwarzenegger daughter pens self-help book - 9/26/2010

FICTION - 9/26/2010

Lovable stray stars in historical tale - 9/26/2010

A David Foster Wallace novel set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois will be issued posthumously next April 15, Tax Day. - 9/26/2010

Memoir harvests sweet, sour aspects of organic farm life - 9/19/2010

Dylan - 9/19/2010

A tale of love and families - 9/19/2010

A rare copy of John James Audubon's "Birds of America" will be sold at aution by Sotheby's in December. - 9/19/2010

THE CITIZEN'S CONSTITUTION. Annotated by Seth Lipsky. Basic Books. 352 pages. $25.95 - 9/19/2010

Counting book has many lessons - 9/19/2010

In his own defense - 9/12/2010

Va. family saga told with wit, affection - 9/12/2010

Novel is thrilling treatise on unreliable memories - 9/12/2010

Satisfying conclusion absent from finale to 'Hunger Games' trilogy - 9/12/2010

Oprah Winfrey will announce her 64th selection for Oprah's Book Club during a live episode of her show airing on Sept. 17. That would be 14 years to the day that she announced her first book club selection -- Jacquelyn Mitchard's "The Deep End of the Ocean" -- on Sept. 17, 1996. - 9/12/2010

MEET THE REAL JOE BLACK. By Steven Michael Selzer. iUniverse Inc. $25.95 - 9/5/2010

A peek inside The Post - 9/5/2010

Satirical novel is stylish, witty - 9/5/2010

Bringing back the rare Kakapo - 9/5/2010

The fascinating story of language - 9/5/2010

Brutal memories - 8/29/2010

Horror novel in reverse - 8/29/2010

'Exhilarating' - 8/29/2010

Hiaasen's back - 8/29/2010

FICTION - 8/29/2010

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - 8/29/2010

THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS. By Rebecca Skloot. Crown. 384 pages. $26. - 8/22/2010

What would you take on a trip to Mars? - 8/22/2010

Dishing it out again - 8/22/2010

"Sartor Resartus" is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book. - 8/22/2010

What book are you currently reading? - 8/22/2010

A dark, modern fairy tale - 8/22/2010

Tale of twins full of suspense - 8/22/2010

A former sex columnist, a TV comedy writer and a best-selling memoirist are nominees for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. - 8/22/2010

3 sisters' tale makes good beach reading - 8/8/2010

This is the fourth D.D. Warren book by Lisa Gardner. - 8/8/2010

A field guide to our area - 8/8/2010

'Charlie' fosters hope and love - 8/8/2010

Murder mystery offers taste of wine industry - 8/8/2010

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. ... - 8/8/2010

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath." - 8/8/2010

'Law & Order' creator Dick Wolf to write 2 novels - 8/1/2010

A weird autobiography by a strange character - 8/1/2010

Maggie O'Dell is back in exciting 'Damaged'Innocence lost -- or never had - 8/1/2010

A treat for eyes and for the imagination - 8/1/2010

Temperature, temprance and political climate change - 8/1/2010

If you like your beach reads on the lighthearted side, then you'll enjoy "Get Lucky." - 8/1/2010

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - 8/1/2010

I don't know how old I was the first time I watched "Gone with the Wind," but I do know that I have loved it since that first viewing. For years, my grandmother told me I really should read the book, written by Margaret Mitchell, and she finally lent me her copy. - 7/25/2010

Despite Chic title, book is vulgar, immoral, inappropriate - 7/25/2010

Alcoholism and motherhood - 7/25/2010

Mystery unveils civil rights, Arab culture - 7/25/2010

Laura Ingalls Wilder was sixty-five years old in 1932 when she published the first of her eight "Little House" books, "Little House in the Big Woods." - 7/25/2010

A tale of strong women in segregated South - 7/25/2010

Delightful essays full of nature's revelations - 7/18/2010

Boredom busters - 7/18/2010

TEEN FICTION - 7/18/2010

Don't crack your back; it's bad for the book! - 7/18/2010

KIDS CORNERBeautiful, packed with facts about sea - 7/11/2010

LES MISERABLES. By Victor Hugo. Available in multiple editions. - 7/11/2010

The real Rush? - 7/11/2010

NONFICTION - 7/11/2010

4 deck hed will go here please - 7/11/2010

Tale by turns funny, poignant - 7/11/2010

Murderous intrigue in the Plains - 7/11/2010

KIDS CORNERThe true tale of a boy genius - 7/4/2010

enflaming youthAn ode to the best novel for enflaming youth - 7/4/2010

Newshounds in novels - 7/4/2010

LAND OF THE LOST SOULS: My Life on the Streets. By Cadillac Man. Bloomsbury USA. 304 pages. $15. - 7/4/2010

TEEN FICTION - 7/4/2010

Turow sequel satisfies - 6/27/2010

'I'll always write because I have a point to make ...' - 6/27/2010

Portrait of artist as a child - 6/27/2010

THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA. By Yukio Mishima and John Nathan. Knopf. 181 pages. Available from resellers. Paperback published by Vintage, 192 pages, $15. - 6/27/2010

PARENTING - 6/27/2010

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." - 6/27/2010

Through the filter of Asperger's - 6/20/2010

Masterful vampire tale - 6/20/2010

Video game? What video game? - 6/20/2010

BEYOND HYPERLINKS Whither books? - 6/20/2010

EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. By Bill McKibben. Times Books. 272 pages. $24 - 6/20/2010

REFERENCE - 6/20/2010

Some of the books that appeared on the TV show "Lost": - 6/20/2010

Byzantine setting; plot, too - 6/13/2010

A fine Italian romance - 6/13/2010

Grisham thriller realistic, entertaining - 6/13/2010

Well done - 6/13/2010

Lessons learned - 6/13/2010

FICTION - 6/13/2010

"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me." - 6/13/2010

THE LITTLE BOOK OF BEARDS ... And A Couple of Mustaches! Spruce/an imprint of Octopus Books. By O.S. Belgie. Illustrated by Simon Stephenson. 96 pages. $9.99 - 6/13/2010

FRAME UP. By John F. Dobbyn. Oceanview Publishing. 288 pages. $25.95 - 6/6/2010

Legal thriller keeps you guessingKIDS CORNER - 6/6/2010

A worthy prizewinner - 6/6/2010

Writers describe what makes a hero - 6/6/2010

Throwing the book at The Boss - 6/6/2010

Lovely tale set in Africa teaches lessons on fear and prejudice - 6/6/2010

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - 6/6/2010

FICTION - 6/6/2010

KIDS CORNERFantasy is full of suspense - 5/30/2010

Heart-felt - 5/30/2010

"It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel." - 5/30/2010

Novel is a beautiful, unforgettable social and cultural commentary - 5/30/2010

Debut novel a moving, rewarding Christian tale - 5/30/2010

NONFICTION - 5/30/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 5/23/2010

Fearsome feats of the Comanches - 5/23/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 5/23/2010

How to save our schools - 5/23/2010

COMING SOON - 5/23/2010

A funny story for your morning glory - 5/23/2010

"No one who can read ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot." - 5/23/2010

Where is God when we are in pain? - 5/16/2010

A pleasing, modern twist on the classic classic - 5/16/2010

True-crime story - 5/16/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 5/16/2010

The power of imaginationKIDS CORNER - 5/16/2010

FICTION - 5/16/2010

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. - 5/9/2010

l Author Event - 4/25/2010

A Cinderella story - 4/25/2010

KIDS CORNERTrue story of a baseball pioneer - 4/25/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 4/25/2010

Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words. - 4/25/2010

Coming-of-age tale reflects boomer culture - 4/25/2010

MEMOIR - 4/25/2010

soul foodSaved by - 4/18/2010

KIDS CORNER - 4/18/2010

COMING SOON - 4/18/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 4/18/2010

U.S. history made fun - 4/11/2010

Even in the outsider realms of science fiction, there's such a thing as a hot trend. - 4/11/2010

Southern romantic tale a quick readSteampunk - 4/11/2010

"A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints." - 4/11/2010

COMING SOON - 4/11/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 3/28/2010

Images from area railway both interesting, important - 3/28/2010

The darker side of music - 3/28/2010

Book captures essence of Appalachia - 3/28/2010

Journal-style writing key to 'Happyface' - 3/28/2010

Tale weaves in bits of racing - 3/28/2010

Upbeat novel is entertaining - 3/28/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 3/21/2010

Author scores with look at fastball history - 3/21/2010

Changing scene of world powers - 3/21/2010

Author weaves history, fantasy - 3/21/2010

Book signing - 3/21/2010

COMING SOON - 3/21/2010

Book follows the journey of growing up - 3/21/2010

"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us." - 3/21/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 3/14/2010

A mythical industry in detail - 3/14/2010

Comic tone shines in catch-all book - 3/14/2010

Ending is 'out there,' but story worth it - 3/14/2010

Reissue of 'Life Story' delight for parents, children - 3/14/2010

Tone undermines guide - 3/7/2010

Collection of comics aims to impress - 3/7/2010

Tale of afterlife has fresh, modern twist - 3/7/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 3/7/2010

'Dome' thrills like King classics - 3/7/2010

Complicated concepts made easy - 2/28/2010

Death penalty focus of 2 books, speech - 2/28/2010

MAY I NOT RECOMMEND ... - 2/28/2010

Novel weaves history, drama - 2/28/2010

Novel defines phrase 'page turner' - 2/28/2010

New 'Dune' better than past - 2/21/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 2/21/2010

'Coraline' author's book rises to expectations - 2/14/2010

Story follows life of Bible's Delilah - 2/14/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 2/14/2010

Free press essential in democratic society - 2/7/2010

'Lesson' can start many discussions - 2/7/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 1/31/2010

Wartime story is quite an adventure - 1/31/2010

Hatred in time of war - 1/31/2010

New fairy tale quite delightful - 1/31/2010

Delightful picture book teaches important lessons - 1/24/2010

Detailed descriptions enhance novel - 1/24/2010

Not perfect, but tale from city is endearing - 1/24/2010

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 1/17/2010

Art, obsessions fuel unusual mystery - 1/17/2010

KIDS CORNERBook celebrates our many differences - 1/17/2010

Stairway to stardom - 1/10/2010

Pensive novel of a quiet life - 1/10/2010

Learning how to face fears - 1/10/2010

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, by Mikhail Bulgakov. Grove Press. 402 pages. $11.95 - 1/10/2010

YOU CAN'T WIN. By Jack Black. www.bnpub-lishing.com. 252 pages. $9.99 - 1/3/2010

The ballad of Dr. Ralph Stanley - 1/3/2010

Tale explores shifting identity - 1/3/2010

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book." - 1/3/2010

How 2 brothers became '60s gadflies - 1/3/2010

FICTION - 1/3/2010

KIDS CORNERA charming and timely tale of Haiti - 1/3/2010

the unexplainedNew books explore ...KIDS CORNER - 12/27/2009

4 deck hed will go here please - 12/27/2009

A "bowdlerized" book is one that has had passages or words removed that are regarded as indecent. Named after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), an English editor who published an bowdlerized edition of Shakespeare. - 12/27/2009

THE NIGHT COUNTER. By Alia Yunis. Shaye Areheart Books. 384 pages. $24 - 12/27/2009

Thriller is true to life - 12/27/2009

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 12/20/2009

Tribute to a classic guide - 12/20/2009

'A lovely light' - 12/20/2009

A holiday voyage through the Old Dominion - 12/20/2009

EDITOR'S PICKS - 12/20/2009

Published in December 1843, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" has been adapted to film more than 200 times. - 12/20/2009

For the diehard Hokie fan - 12/20/2009

Zombies ate the plotline - 12/6/2009

MAY I RECOMMEND ... - 12/6/2009

Comic reflections on sex, love, rock 'n' roll - 12/6/2009

Fluff, as only the late Harold Robbins could write it - 12/6/2009

Beautiful and bizarre - 12/6/2009

Vintage Vonnegut - 12/6/2009

YOUNG-ADULT FICTION - 12/6/2009

In addition to condition, several attributes can make a book collectible. They include: first edition; illustrator; signed by author or illustrator; association (inscribed by the author to a well-known person); provenance, or handed down from the library of some famous person; laid-in items and ephemera; binding; and relative scarcity. - 12/6/2009

It's a fact: 'Information' author Hodgman is funny - 11/29/2009

Sure to be a bedtime favorite - 11/29/2009

LIME TREE CAN'T BEAR ORANGE. By Amanda Smyth. Three Rivers Press. 288 pages. $14 - 11/29/2009

'Ice' sizzles - 11/29/2009

Family saga keeps reader enthralled - 11/29/2009

In 1939, a Columbia University student named Arthur Brody invented the plastic book jacket cover (sometimes called a Brodart). A photographer, Brody washed the emulsion off some film and folded it around books for added protection. Once the covers' popularity grew among fellow students, the plastic book jacket cover was officially born. Today, the covers are used to protect the original paper jackets of library books. This innovation gave birth to Brodart Co., a library furniture company and boo - 11/29/2009

NOAH'S COMPASS, by Anne Tyler. A novel about a schoolteacher forced to retire at age 61, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. January release. - 11/29/2009

Roots music can be heard in book of short stories - 11/29/2009

Dramatized history - 11/22/2009

County portrait in full detail - 11/22/2009

Backcountry in a new light - 11/22/2009

A BIG LITTLE LIFE: A MEMOIR OF A JOYFUL DOG. By Dean Koontz. Hyperion. 288 pages. $24.99 - 11/22/2009

A novel is a work of fiction usually consisting of 45,000 words or more, while a novella usually consists of between 7,500 and 40,000 words. - 11/22/2009

FICTION - 11/22/2009

Meet an author - 11/22/2009

BEST- SELLERS - 11/22/2009

Being a champ - 11/22/2009

Beauty in a hostile world - 11/15/2009

A dog's-eye view of nature at night - 11/15/2009

WHEN AUTUMN LEAVES. By Amy Foster. Overlook. 304 pages. $14.95 - 11/15/2009

Ghost story not up to snuff - 11/15/2009

When New Orleans was still whole - 11/15/2009

An artificial deckle edge is when the pages of a book are made to resemble handmade paper by applying a frayed texture to the edges. - 11/15/2009

Disaster can be sweet - 11/15/2009

MEMOIR - 11/15/2009

Dark teen novel includes paranormal romance - 11/8/2009

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house." - 11/8/2009

Research into words reveals delicious mystery - 11/8/2009

Risky business - 11/8/2009

FICTION - 11/8/2009

l Book Signing - 11/8/2009

The year the war came home - 11/8/2009

SHORT STORIES - 11/1/2009

Creature comforts - 11/1/2009

Teen's tale told with warmth, humor - 11/1/2009

Thrills aplenty in 16th century - 11/1/2009

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." - 11/1/2009

Supernaturally funny - 11/1/2009

OSCAR MICHEAUX: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker. By Patrick McGilligan. Harper Perennial. 432 pages. $16.95 - 11/1/2009

A worthy spiritual journey - 11/1/2009

The perfect heroine in tragic times - 10/25/2009

"I pay the rent. What do you do?" - 10/25/2009

Horror flicks as sociology - 10/25/2009

Coffee, tea, then equality - 10/25/2009

Tale is a thorough haunting - 10/25/2009

FICTION - 10/25/2009

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." - 10/25/2009

Where the wild things weren't - 10/18/2009

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 10/18/2009

Expert advice for new moms - 10/18/2009

Tale of paranormal is unnerving - 10/4/2009

NONFICTION - 10/4/2009

Barnyard fairy tale has an important lesson - 10/4/2009

THE NIGHT MONSTER. By James Swain. Ballantine Books. 336 pages. $26 - 10/4/2009

Capital entertainment - 10/4/2009

A different wartime rescue - 10/4/2009

"The body of Benjamin Franklin/printer, like an old book, its contents torn out. And stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here. Food for worms. But the work shall not be lost. It will (as he believed) appear once more, in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by the Author." - 10/4/2009

Costly errors - 9/13/2009

A pleasant surprise - 9/13/2009

Koontz thriller is good escapism - 9/13/2009

I LIVE FOR THIS! BASEBALL'S LAST TRUE BELIEVER. By Bill Plaschke with Tommy Lasorda. Mariner Books (Reprint edition). 256 pages. $14.95 - 9/13/2009

FICTION - 9/13/2009

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - 9/13/2009

Turning away from vengeance - 9/13/2009

Reader's patience is ultimately rewarded - 9/13/2009

Too much finger-pointing - 8/30/2009

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