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Subscribe to the lovethebook.com book feed mix using any reader! 8/5/2010
Andrew J. Bacevich on How to Dismantle the American Empire
8/1/2010
Stacy Malkan on Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
7/10/2010
Joy Gordon on the Invisble War, the United States and Iraq Sanctions
6/26/2010
Tom Engelhardt on the American Way of War
6/25/2010
Writer, critic and activist Carlos Monsiváis, 1938 - 2010
6/8/2010
He is totally unreproducible — he was sui generis — Martin Gardner, 1914 - 2010
6/7/2010
Joe Meadors: I seem to have all the bad luck in the world when it comes to the Israelis.
5/30/2010
Historian Bruce Cumings on the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula
5/12/2010
How the hell did it happen? - Daniel Okrent on how Prohibition democratized drinking and made the income tax possible
5/6/2010
"We have more than an oil slick out of control, we also have these big corporations out of control." - Marine toxicologist Rikki Ott on the BP and Exxon Valdez oil spills.
4/24/2010
"This is too important. We cannot leave this to governments": Cormac Cullinan on the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights
4/6/2010
Anarchist, poet, publisher and chess-player, John Rety, 1930 - 2010
4/4/2010
"Literature was another victim of the war": Miguel Delibes, 1920 - 2010
3/24/2010
The beautiful brain of Sherman Alexie: War Dances wins 2010 Pen/Faulkner Award
3/13/2010
It's terrible to be possessed by brittle things: Elena Fanailova's The Russian Version wins the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry
3/7/2010
Translator, critic and BBC script editor, Barbara Bray, 1924 - 2010
2/28/2010
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award to D. A. Powell
2/24/2010
The banks have had nine months to creatively increase the real cost of borrowing: Robert Manning on Credit Card Nation
2/9/2010
Robert McChesney and John Nichols the history and necessity of government subsides for US journalism
2/5/2010
Of course, I’d forgotten she’d died: An extract from A Scattering by Christopher Reid, the 2009 Costa Book of the Year
1/30/2010
Tributes to People's Historian Howard Zinn, 1922 - 2010
1/24/2010
Johann Hari on P. W. Singer's Wired For War
1/23/2010
Jamin Raskin on the Supreme Court campaign finance ruling which removes limits on corporate campaign spending
1/16/2010
"Haitians have been punished ever since for claiming their freedom", Tracy Kidder and Peter Hallward on Haiti
1/2/2010
At 42, she was one of the best poets of her generation, Rachel Wetzsteon, 1967 - 2009
12/27/2009
You have to decide which side you are on: there is always a side. Commitment does not exist in an abstraction; it exists in action: Dennis Brutus, 1924 - 2009
12/19/2009
The wedding guests look upon the cracked, pink lips of Rosie's bridegroom - an extract from Petina Gappah's An Elegy for Easterly, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award winning book
12/12/2009
David Cortright on Obama's shallow understanding of the priciples of Just War Theory
11/26/2009
Obama's rejection of Landmine Treaty lacks vision, compassion, and basic common sense
11/22/2009
Those who saw him hushed: Let the Great World Spin, the National Book Award winner by Colum McCann
11/15/2009
Robert Jensen: Of Turkeys and Holocausts
11/8/2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908 - 2009, his works as a practical anti-racist manifesto
11/7/2009
Power exercised by man over his fellow man is always a usurpation, Francisco Ayala, 1906 - 2009
11/1/2009
If you think you'll to be rich someday, why resent million-dollar bonuses: Barbara Ehrenreich on Positive Thinking
10/21/2009
Four Canadians tortured in the name of fighting Terror, Kerry Pither wins Ottawa Book Award for Dark Days
10/14/2009
The Potato that Became a Tomato, Playgiarist Raymond Federman, 1928 - 2009
10/10/2009
I've had to learn to live by writing, not the other way round. Herta Müller wins Nobel prize in literature
9/30/2009
Milton Meltzer, 1915 – 2009
9/23/2009
I knew I had no hope of winning: Simon Van Booy wins Frank O'Connor Short Story Award for Love Begins in Winter
9/15/2009
I saw my soul become flesh: Jean Valentine wins Wallace Stevens Award
9/14/2009
Iconic poet and punk rocker, Jim Carroll, 1950 - 2009
9/3/2009
Wallace Shawn on The Quest for Superiority
8/30/2009
Michael Parenti on Italian American Identity
8/20/2009
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia
8/19/2009
Slavoj Zizek on occupation by bureaucracy and the quiet slicing of the West Bank
8/17/2009
Robert Dreyfuss on the shift in U.S. war and propaganda effort from Iraq to Afghanistan
8/9/2009
Israeli writer Amos Kenan, 1927 - 2009
8/8/2009
Daniel Ellsberg on the 64th Aniversary of Hiroshima Day
7/30/2009
Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt, 1930 - 2009
7/15/2009
D.D. Guttenplan on I.F.Stone and the Vietnam War
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson Knopf

The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy

Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, ...
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A Little Death In Dixie
Lisa Turner Bell Bridge Books

The Blues were born out of need, anger and pride. Murder comes from those same dark places. Memphis has both. One of Memphis' most seductive and notorious socialites has vanished. Either she's off on another drunken escapade or the disappearance is something much more frightening. What begins as an ordinary day's work for Detective Billy Able quickly grows into a complex spider's web of tragedy, mystery, suspicion, and sordid secrets including a few of Billy's own. With the help of Mercy Snow, the estranged sister of the missing socialite, Billy follows a twisted trail of human frailty and corruption ...
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Darkness on the Edge of Town
Brian Keene Leisure Books

One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke to find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable wall of darkness.
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett Berkley Trade

The wildly popular New York Times bestseller and reading group favorite.

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the ...
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From a Distance
Tamera Alexander Bethany House Publishers

What happens when the realization of a dream isn't what you imagined... and the secret you've spent a lifetime guarding is finally laid bare?

Determined to become one of the country's premier newspaper photographers, Elizabeth Westbrook travels to the Colorado Territory to capture the grandeur of the mountains surrounding the remote town of Timber Ridge. She hopes, too, that the cool, dry air of Colorado, and its renowned hot springs, will cure the mysterious illness that threatens her career, and her life. Daniel Ranslett is a man shackled by his Confederate past, and he'll do anything ...

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Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese Vintage

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
 
Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
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Somewhere to Belong
Judith Miller Bethany House

Johanna Ilg has lived her entire life in Main Amana, one of the seven villages inhabited by devout Christians who believe in cooperative living, a simple lifestyle, and faithful service to God. Although she's always longed to see the outside world, Johanna believes her future is rooted in the community. But when she learns a troubling secret, the world she thought she knew is shattered and she is forced to make difficult choices about a new life and the man she left behind. Berta Schumacher has lived a privileged life in Chicago, and when her parents decide they want a simpler life in Amana, ...
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Rorey's Secret
Leisha, Kelly Revell

The Worthams and Hammonds are as close as two families could be, sharing almost everything on their Depression-era Illinois farms. So when a raging fire breaks out and threatens to destroy the Hammond farm, both families are affected by the tragedy. But how did the fire start? Several of the kids know the truth, but no one is talking. As the families try to overcome aching loss, misplaced blame, troubled relationships, and an upsetting secret, they once again find themselves clinging desperately to their trust in God. In this compelling tale of faith, hardship, and community, acclaimed author ...
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Hide in Plain Sight
Marta Perry Steeple Hill

She couldn't turn her back on her family in their time of need. So when her sister was injured, financial expert Andrea Hampton traded the big city for Amish country to help turn her grandmother's house into an inn.

But life with the Plain People took a treacherous turn when a string of accidents and pranks threatened her family. Someone didn't want the secrets the old house harbored to come to light. Trusting anyone-- even the handsome carpenter who seemed so genuine--was a battle for Andrea, but her life depended on her ability to find the truth.

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The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett Signet

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett comes this spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of the lives entwined in the building of the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known-and a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother.
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