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The Wooden Village and The End of Freddy by Peter Pi?t'anek review
Telegraph - 19 Hours ago
In Rivers of Babylon, Peter Piatanek foretold the energy wars now stalking Europe. Rcz, Bratislavas chief thug, rises to build a business empire from lowly beginnings as a hotel stoker. Stupid he may
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And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair review
Telegraph - 19 Hours ago
This novel marks the last appearance of Gilbert Adairs eccentric sleuth Evadne Mount, and although this news may not prompt an obituary in The New York Times, as happened when Agatha Christie killed off
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Esther's Inheritance by Sandor Márai review
Telegraph - 19 Hours ago
Published in 1939, Esthers Inheritance is the fourth volume of Sandor Mrais fiction to make it into English. At the time, Mrai was at the height of his Hungarian reputation. An acquaintance of Andr Gide
'Esther's Inheritance,' by Sándor Márai Los Angeles Times
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Book Review: The Horror, the Horror
Middle East Times - 13 Hours ago
STAR IN YOUR OWN FANTASY -- â??[Americans] have grown up in a world where everything horrible has been turned into entertainment, made into some goddamn movie.â? The image shows an Xbox 360 game that
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The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle, By Russell Miller
The Independent - 21 Hours ago
Why Sherlock Holmes' creator was away with the fairies Reviewed by Ian Thomson Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share Spiritualists never die. As if pickled in formaldehyde, they
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Book Review: grown up digital
Canada One - 2 Hours ago
grown up digital: how the net generation is changing your world Don Tapscott McGraw Hill Call them Gen Y or call them the Net Generation, as author Don Tapscott would prefer. Either way, this newest generation
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Book review: 'The Mercy Papers' and 'Downtown Owl'
International Herald Tribune - 9 Hours ago
The Mercy Papers A Memoir of Three Weeks By Robin Romm 213 pages. Scribner. $22. The foundational condition of being human is that we're going to die. Almost as basic a truth is that we seem incapable
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Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi">Book Review: Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
Blogger News Network - 1/6/2009
Tom Stein, the main character, is an actorsâ?? agent in Hollywood. His stable of clients includes Michelle, who was catapulted to stardom by the unexpected success of a grade-B thriller. Unfortunately,
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Duct Tape Marketing: The Worlds Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide â??
Small Business Trends - 1/6/2009
After you read John Jantschs book, , you will understand that marketing should be an integrated part in all your firms business activities. The outcome of marketing is to create a complete system that
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Student wins New York Times book review accolade
Cambridge Network - 1/6/2009
A Cambridge School of Art graduateâ??s first book has been lauded in the international press. Kazuno Kohara, from Japan, who graduated from the MA in Childrenâ??s Book Illustration in 2007, has had her
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Classic review: Arab and Jew, Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Christian Science Monitor - 1/4/2009
[The Monitor occasionally reprints pieces from its archives. This book review originally ran on Oct. 2, 1986.] The biggest problem for Middle East correspondents is not surviving danger in the worlds
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Susan Sontag remains cultural force after death
San Francisco Chronicle - 1/4/2009
Susan Sontag took a trip once to Archer City, Texas, to visit her friend Larry McMurtry. McMurtry, who set many of his novels in the vicinity, later recalled how Sontag teased him about living in his
Sontag Book Review: Unlazy Susan Time
Review: Early Diaries of Susan Sontag 1947-1964 Guardian Unlimited
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Review: The Crossroads by Niccolò Ammaniti
Guardian Unlimited - 1/4/2009
Niccolò Ammaniti is one of Italy's brightest literary stars. His fiction combines tense horror with the blackest comedy and displays a knowing intelligence. Ammaniti's allusions to 1970s film and B-movie
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Review: William Hazlitt by Duncan Wu
Guardian Unlimited - 1/4/2009
More than other figure in English literary history, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) demolishes the distinction between creative artist and critical commentator. He was the exemplary critic as artist (Wilde
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Book Review: The Pixar Touch
SYS-CON Media - 1/5/2009
.NET Developer's Journal - .NETDJ| ColdFusion Developer's Journal - CFDJ | Eclipse Developer's Journal - EDJ | Enterprise Open Source Magazine - EOS Open Web Developer's Journal - OPENWEB| iPhone Developer's
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Children's Book Reviews
PublishersWeekly.com - 1/5/2009
Introduced in Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, the cute little fox Fletcher now discovers spring. Seeing blossoms swirling through the airBeeke renders them as a flurry of white smudgesFletcher becomes
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Book review: The War Behind Me
The Scotsman - 1/5/2009
YOU might think the United States has written everything it can possibly write about Vietnam, but you'd be wrong. It was a war, writes Deborah Nelson, where war crimes were almost routine. There's an
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Powerful love stories shape exotic tale
Chicago Tribune - 1/3/2009
One of the most haunting moments in Janice Y. K. Lee's debut novel occurs late in the book, when the primary love story endsit happens so suddenly and the tragedy of it is so understated that you may
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Going to abandon your resolutions
Chicago Tribune - 1/3/2009
READ 'The Seven Deadly Sins' New York Public Library & Oxford University Press Seven authors tackle seven sins in seven slim volumes. If Wendy Wasserstein (Sloth) and Simon Blackburn (Lust) had stuck
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The Gangs of Manchester: the Story of the Scuttlers Britain's First Youth Cult by
Telegraph - 1/3/2009
A group of youths gets tooled up and makes a deliberately aggressive foray into neighbouring territory. This challenge is readily accepted. During the brief but ferocious battle, several young men receive
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Review: The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography by Robert Crawford
Guardian Unlimited - 1/3/2009
When Keats visited Burns's Ayrshire birthplace in 1818 he treated 'this mortal body of a thousand days' as a tragic but still vivid force: 'Yet can I ope thy window-sash,' he wrote, 'to find / The meadow
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Review: The New Uncanny, edited by Sarah Eyre and Ra Page
Guardian Unlimited - 1/3/2009
Freud's strange essay of 1919, translated into English as 'The Uncanny', casts a shadow longer than the length, or coherence, of the piece seems to promise. It opens with one of his disingenuous disclaimers:
The New Uncanny by Sarah Eyre & Ra PageGhost Stories by Peter Washington The Independent
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Book Review The Art of Spiritual Peacemaking
BellaOnline - 22 Hours ago
I first heard of James Twyman several years ago through his â??Art of Spiritual Peacemakingâ? course which he offered through his website www.emissaryoflight.com. When I first perused his website I was
The Art of Short Selling: Book Review Seeking Alpha
Book review: 'The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death' International Herald Tribune
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Exclusive Henning Mankell extract
The Independent - 1/2/2009
I always feel more lonely when it's cold. The cold outside my window reminds me of the cold emanating from my own body. I'm being attacked from two directions. But I'm constantly resisting. That's why
Exclusive extract of Henning Mankell's Italian Shoes The Independent
An exclusive extract of Henning Mankell's Italian Shoes The Independent
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Book Review: The Joy of Spooking - Book One: Fiendish Deeds
The Trades - 1/4/2009
Joy Wells is a little girl who lives in a tiny town on the outskirts of Darlington. The town, Spooking, sits on a hill and is more derelict houses than residents. It's ramshackle, foreboding -- and, in
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