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Monday | Publishers' Weekly

Nonfiction Book Reviews

The 30 years Pope has spent living and traveling in the Middle East, from a 1980 visit as an Oxford student through a decade-long stint as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal , color this reflection on the region's recent history.

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Related Topix: Arts, Poetry, New York Metro, Recipes, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY, France, World News,

Sun Nov 22, 2009

HeraldTribune.com

Book awards focus on an uncertain future

Published: Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:36 p.m. The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.

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Related Topix: Arts, Literature, Montgomery Metro

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Sacramento Bee

"Going Rogue" is going big

"Going Rogue" is going big. Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Sarah Palin, Arts

Thu Nov 19, 2009

GalleyCat

NBA Nonfiction Winner T. J. Stiles on the Recession

That's biographer T. J. Stiles talking about the recession on the floor of the glitzy National Book Awards yesterday.

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Related Topix: Arts

Wed Nov 18, 2009

WWL-TV New Orleans

Novelist Colum McCann wins book award

Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin" has captured the fiction prize at the 60th annual National Book Awards.

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Related Topix: Arts

Publishers' Weekly

Recorded Books Forms Nonfiction Imprint

Recorded Books has announced a new nonfiction imprint, ITK Audio . ITK Audio will focus mainly on titles in history, biography and memoir with an eye toward selecting "works of authors who are respected for the quality and originality of their work and that will likely be considered as relevant" years from now as they are today.

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Related Topix: Arts

Tue Nov 17, 2009

NPR

Hardcover Nonfiction

Weeks on list: 3 * What's the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard -- but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point; Blink ; and Outliers , ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Adventure, Everything Is Illuminated, Vocal, Jon Krakauer

Publishers' Weekly

Nonfiction Book Reviews

Following U.K. bestseller Austerity Britain 19451951 , this is the second title in historian Kynaston's series on postwar Britain.

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Related Topix: Arts

Mon Nov 16, 2009

NPR

Paperback Nonfiction

Greg Mortenson was a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school.

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Related Topix: Arts, US Politics, US News, Al Gore, Family, Parenting

Publishers' Weekly

Nonfiction Reviews

The Anglo-American alliance in WWII was not inevitable, writes former Baltimore Sun correspondent Olson .

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Related Topix: Arts, University of Arizona

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Oregonlive.com

Nonfiction review: 'Lit'

Readers who loved Mary Karr's best-selling memoirs, "The Liars' Club," about her raw, growing-up-in-spite-of-her-parents childhood in Texas, or "Cherry," about her drug-hazed coming of age in California, will also love her new book, "Lit," about her painful navigation through alcoholism and depression in New England.

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Related Topix: Arts, Texas, Depression, Health, Poetry

Fri Nov 13, 2009

MyCentralJersey.com

WWII vets still hold a special place in people's hearts

Last week, we visited my nephew's townhouse in Connecticut and I observed his choice of nonfiction books, noticing how he is interested in World War II.

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Related Topix: Arts, Piscataway, NJ

Wed Nov 11, 2009

The Jewish Journal

Prose Rescues Anne Frank From Sainthood . . .

Anne Frank is a unique figure in the iconography of Judaism. Of the 6 million victims of the Holocaust, her face is the only one we all know intimately and even subliminally.

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Related Topix: Religion, Judaism, Arts, Literature

Tue Nov 10, 2009

WIBW

50 Years Later: "In Cold Blood" Murders of the Clutter Family

HOLCOMB, Kansas -- It's one of America's most haunting crime stories: four members of a Kansas family brutally murdered on November 15, 1959, at their rural farmhouse.

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Related Topix: Holcomb, KS, Arts, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog

British Book Sales: Nonfiction Slumps, Fiction Sells

Sales of this year's top 10 non-fiction books in October were down 52% year on year, while sales of hardback fiction titles have soared by 90%. Figures for the most recent week to 31st October showed non-fiction continuing to underperform.

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Related Topix: Arts

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Gangland L.A. in the 1950s, via pulp nonfiction

In the 1940s and '50s, Los Angeles was home to a remarkably high-profile mob presence.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, Arts

Publishers' Weekly

Nonfiction Reviews

In this absorbing blend of bright-eyed reportage and hands-on participation, journalist Milgrom demystifies the creepy art of bringing dead creatures back to life and dispels the myth that taxidermists merely "stuff animals." The author's quest to understand the compulsion of obsessed hobbyists and exacting scientists alike to duplicate what nature ...

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Related Topix: Arts

Martinsburg Journal

In The Know for November 8

The search is on for a new Mrs. West Virginia to represent the Mountain State in the 2010 Mrs.

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Related Topix: West Virginia, Huntington, WV, Morgantown, WV, Libraries, Buckhannon, WV, Arts

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Cultural clash in Appalachia

Some writers are masters of self-promotion, thoroughly convinced and convincing in their roles as artist-shamans. Others seem driven to self-effacement, shrugging off as quickly as possible the writer's prophetic mantel.

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Related Topix: Arts, Eastern, KY

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Visalia Times-Delta

'Men Who Stare at Goats' will get your laughs

For whatever reason, the military always has provided fertile ground for black comedy.

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Related Topix: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Arts, US Army, US Military

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