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‘Billy Martin: Baseball’s Flawed Genius,’ by Bill Pennington [05 Jun 2015|02:43pm]
Few in baseball have been as fiery, and as misunderstood, as Billy Martin.







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‘Words Without Music,’ by Philip Glass [05 Jun 2015|02:43pm]
Philip Glass recalls his Baltimore childhood and the friends and teachers who influenced him.







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‘Jonas Salk: A Life,’ by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs [05 Jun 2015|02:45pm]
A biography of Jonas Salk, the first man to develop a vaccine against polio and a popular hero.







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‘The Edge of the World,’ by Michael Pye [05 Jun 2015|02:45pm]
Michael Pye sees the North Sea and its periphery as crucial to the development of Europe.







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‘Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga,’ by Pamela Newkirk [05 Jun 2015|02:45pm]
In the early 1900s, Americans flocked to see the “African Pygmy.”







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‘How I Shed My Skin,’ by Jim Grimsley [05 Jun 2015|02:48pm]
A novelist’s coming-of-age in 1960s and ’70s North Carolina.







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‘The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage,’ by Sydney Padua [05 Jun 2015|02:49pm]
The real-life scientific career of Lord Byron’s daughter provided the inspiration for this graphic novel.







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‘The Anchoress,’ by Robyn Cadwallader [05 Jun 2015|02:51pm]
A teenager in medieval England becomes a religious hermit.







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‘The Given World,’ by Marian Palaia [05 Jun 2015|02:51pm]
Lives in the U.S. are turned upside down by the Vietnam War in this debut novel.







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‘Orhan’s Inheritance,’ by Aline Ohanesian [05 Jun 2015|02:53pm]
A Turkish photographer must confront the past when his grandfather leaves the family home to an Armenian woman.







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‘Coup de Foudre,’ by Ken Kalfus [05 Jun 2015|02:53pm]
This novella is a thinly — or not so thinly — veiled account of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair.







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Crime: Robert Goddard’s ‘The Ways of the World,’ and More [05 Jun 2015|02:54pm]
The dashing protagonist of Goddard’s historical espionage thriller is a refreshing throwback to an earlier romantic tradition of heroes.







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Inside the List [05 Jun 2015|02:57pm]
Chuck Palahniuk, whose “Make Something Up” is No. 8 on the hardcover fiction list, is also promoting his first graphic novel, a sequel to his 1996 novel “Fight Club.”







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The Shortlist: Families in Fiction [05 Jun 2015|03:12pm]
New books by Jane Smiley, Mary Morris, Karel Schoeman and Polly Samson.







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Paperback Row [05 Jun 2015|03:21pm]
Paperback books of particular interest.







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Editors’ Choice [05 Jun 2015|03:29pm]
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.







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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: ‘Reagan: The Life’ [05 Jun 2015|04:18pm]
Jeff Shesol talks about H. W. Brands’s new biography of Ronald Reagan, and Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs talks about her new biography of Jonas Salk.







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James Rebanks, Man of Sheep, Man of Letters [05 Jun 2015|05:03pm]
James Rebanks, whose family has farmed in the Lake District of England for about 600 years, has a best seller to add to his credentials as Unesco adviser and sheepherder.







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Alice Goffman’s Heralded Book on Crime Disputed [05 Jun 2015|09:41pm]
Since her book “On the Run” was published last year, Goffman has achieved a measure of fame that is rare​ for a young sociologist, but ​she now faces criticism over some of her facts and methods.







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Alice Goffman’s Heralded Book on Crime Is Disputed [05 Jun 2015|09:41pm]
Since her book “On the Run” was published, the author has achieved a measure of fame that is rare​ for a young sociologist, but ​she now faces criticism over her facts and methods.







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Books of Style: Henrietta Bingham’s Jazz Age Life [05 Jun 2015|09:50pm]
Henrietta Worth Bingham’s life shamed her family. Decades later, a great-niece decided to find out why.







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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: ‘Reagan: The Life’ [05 Jun 2015|11:13pm]
Jeff Shesol talks about H. W. Brands’s new biography of Ronald Reagan, and Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs talks about her new biography of Jonas Salk.







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