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Songs of Herself
Washington Post - 4 Hours ago
THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC TO GIRLS By Lavinia Greenlaw Farrar Straus Giroux. 208 pp. $23 Whether we purposely choose a soundtrack for our days, or whether a tune just drifts through a window like a dream, Add Comment |
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Notes From the Underground
Washington Post - 4 Hours ago
THE SOLOIST A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music By Steve Lopez Putnam. 273 pp. $25.95 In 1980 I entered the Berklee College of Music, a fiercely competitive and, I Add Comment |
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Special Players
Washington Post - 4 Hours ago
Lang Lang sounds as if he couldn't be more laid-back about classical music. Early in the Chinese-born pianist's memoir, Journey of a Thousand Miles (Spiegel & Grau, $24.95), he tells several stories about Add Comment |
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Heroes Once More
Washington Post - 4 Hours ago
ROME 1960 The Olympics That Changed the World By David Maraniss Simon & Schuster. 478 pp. $26.95 Seldom is a book as ill-served by its subtitle as is David Maraniss's Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed Add Comment |
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Book Review: Europe Between the Oceans
The Scotsman - 17 Hours ago
Europe drawn by a scholar and archaeologist at the very peak of his powers. The seeds of this magnificent book were sewn in Edinburgh in 2002. Invited to give the Rhind Lectures at the Royal Scottish Add Comment |
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Book review: Undercover with a Harlequin hero
The Scotsman - 17 Hours ago
SPY NOVELS TEND TO FOCUS ON the few people who rise above self-interest, but the best also give voice to those who don't. Furst's latest novel begins with just such a specimen: Edvard Uhl, a plodding, Add Comment |
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Book review: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
The Scotsman - 17 Hours ago
An unkind critic, should such be found, might apply the same description to Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street novels. Certainly they do go on, and, to adapt the metaphor slightly, the tale seems Add Comment |
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Dr Who Book Review
Toys And Gadgets - 4 Hours ago
Dr Who Book Review BBC Dr who encyclopedia book review i got it for 15.00 but it is now 10.00 Written by admin. Read more great feeds at is source WEBSITE More Gadgets articles Video-Review Add Comment |
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Advice Squad
New York Times - 10 Hours ago
Why look down on self-help books? Dont you want to be kinder, look better and get rich? From Hesiods Works and Days and the Book of Proverbs to The Pilgrims Progress, Nietzsches Thus Spake Zarathustra, Add Comment |
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'Real World'
New York Times - 10 Hours ago
Sprinkle in some Dostoyevsky or Nietzsche or whatever. ... Then sort of wrap it up like Evangelion, the popular animated television series that pits paramilitary teenagers against enemy angels bent on Add Comment |
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Great books for the beach
North Jersey.com - 5 Hours ago
What makes a great beach read? It doesnâ??t have to be a great book â?? though it can be â?? but it should definitely be a page-turner that can nonetheless withstand interruptions (an unplanned nap, a all 1 news articles >> Add Comment |
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 7/21/2008
PublishersWeekly.com - 23 Hours ago
Lloyd (Mr. Pusskins) gets in touch with her inner Richard Scarry for a book thats busy-as-a-bee chipper. Doctor Meow, a female kitty, is chief of staff at Kiss-It-Better Hospitaland talk about a health-care Add Comment |
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