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THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
John Green
Dutton
ISBN 978-0525478812
NA pages
$17.99
Reviewed by Mary Quattlebaum
Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters are very different: She's a
sensitive poetry aficionado; he's a hunky ex-basketball player. But
their ...
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WE MARCH
Shane W. Evans
Roaring Brook
ISBN 978-1596435391
NA pages
$16.99
Reviewed by Kristi Jemtegaard
With this companion to last year's "Underground," Shane W. Evans
brackets a century of African-American history from pre-Civil ...
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I LAY MY STITCHES DOWN: Poems of American Slavery
Cynthia Grady. Illustrated by Michele Wood
Eerdmans
ISBN 978-0802853868
NA pages
$17
Reviewed by Abby McGanney Nolan
The role of quilts in slavery, particularly as signals in the
Underground Railroad, is an ongoing debate ...
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SITUATIONS MATTER: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
Sam Sommers
RiverheadBooks
ISBN 978-1594488184
290 pages
$25.95
Reviewed by Rachel Newcomb
Most of us consider ourselves to be objective, consistent people who
make decisions that reflect our core principles, no matter what...
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THE LAST HOLIDAY
Gil Scott-Heron
Grove
ISBN 978-0802129017
321 pages
$25
Reviewed by Adam Langer
Close watchers of the career of Gil Scott-Heron, who died last year at
62, might approach his posthumous memoir, "The Last Holiday," with
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THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER
John Matteson
Norton
ISBN 978-0393068054
510 pages
$32.95
Reviewed by Joanna Scutts
In "The Lives of Margaret Fuller," the follow-up to his Pulitzer
Prize-winning biography of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott, John Matteson
...
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THE REAL ELIZABETH: An Intimate Portrait of Queen
THE REAL ELIZABETH: An Intimate Portrait of QueenAndrew Marr
Henry Holt
ISBN 978-0805094169
349 pages
$32
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN: The Life of a Modern MonarchSally Bedell Smith
Random House
ISBN 978-...
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RULE AND RUIN: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
RULE AND RUIN: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea PartyGeoffrey Kabaservice
Oxford Univ
ISBN 978-0199768400
482 pages
$29.95
THE TEA PARTY AND THE REMAKING ...
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THE MAN WITHIN MY HEAD
Pico Iyer
Knopf
ISBN 978-0307267610
242 pages
$25.95
Reviewed by Justin Moyer
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Artists are haunted by their influences. Picasso competed with Matisse,
Jimi Hendrix tried to best Little Richard, and, after 50-plus books,
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DISCONNECT: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics
Morris P. Fiorina with and Samuel J. Abrams
Univ. of Oklahoma
ISBN 978-0806142289
24972 pages
$24.95
Reviewed by Thomas Byrne Edsall
Are voters as polarized as their elected officials? The question, which
has serious ...
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