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|  | Shepard, Geoff THE SECRET PLOT TO MAKE TED KENNEDY PRESIDENT
July 01, 2008 - A Nixon White House staffer revisits Watergate and deems it principally "a highly partisan political maneuver led by, and for the benefit of, Teddy Kennedy." Watergate's real author, Shepard argues, was John Dean
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| | Lopate, Phillip TWO MARRIAGES
July 01, 2008 - Though Lopate (American Movie Critics, 2006, etc.) is better known for nonfiction in general, and personal essays in particular, his return to fiction proves to be an urbane, sophisticated pleasure.
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| Current Issue: Fiction |
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 | Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien MS. HEMPEL CHRONICLES
July 01, 2008 - Like a seventh-grade teacher on the first day of school, Ms. Hempel initially seems generic in this second novel from Bynum (whose debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, was a National Book Award finalist in 2004). It's as if she's more of a type—the young |
| Gaus, P.L. SEPARATE FROM THE WORLD
July 01, 2008 - Change comes even to the Amish. Some of Bishop Andy Miller's flock out in Calmoutier are helping Professor Lobrelli with her genetic research. Enos Erb, a dwarf, is a "Modern" who believes in gene therapy. Though Enos's brother Benny, another dwarf, |
| Lodge, David DEAF SENTENCE
July 01, 2008 - Linguistics professor Desmond Bates's increasing deafness led him to take early retirement from his university in a northern English city. So now, in November 2006, he has little to do beyond visit his elderly father in London and perform the |
| Current Issue: Nonfiction |
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| Ahmed, Qanta A. IN THE LAND OF INVISIBLE WOMEN
July 01, 2008 - Denied a renewal of her visa in the United States, British-born, American-educated pulmonologist Ahmed accepted a position at a hospital in Riyadh. On rounds, the male residents she supervised would interrupt her, and female residents (what few |
| Doggett, Peter THERE'S A RIOT GOING ON
July 01, 2008 - British chronicler Doggett (The Art & Music of John Lennon, 2005, etc.), who is just old enough to remember the '60s, is comfortable looking at the time through a kaleidoscope and reporting his visions in straightish lines—not easy, given its myriad |
| Light, Alison MRS. WOOLF AND THE SERVANTS
July 01, 2008 - Light (History/Univ. of East London; Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars, 1991, etc.) brings all her scholarly skills and imagination to bear on the task of illuminating the lives of people whom history has |
| Reynolds, David S. WAKING GIANT
July 01, 2008 - Covering precisely the same slice of American history in half as many pages as Daniel Walker Howe's recent and celebrated What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007), Reynolds applies his vast erudition to a period too |
| Slaughter, Thomas P. THE BEAUTIFUL SOUL OF JOHN WOOLMAN, APOSTLE OF ABOLITION
July 01, 2008 - Woolman (1720–72) remains the earliest and most complete American embodiment of the notion of a "social conscience." In Mount Holly, N.J., he shed a succession of jobs (most notably as a shopkeeper, tailor, schoolteacher and legal functionary) to |
| Tough, Paul WHATEVER IT TAKES
July 01, 2008 - Frustrated by the limited number of people he could help in his job at a nonprofit organization providing services for at-risk youth, Geoffrey Canada in 1999 founded a large-scale initiative eventually dubbed the Harlem Children's Zone. He believed |
| Current Issue: Children's |
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| Bruel, Nick BAD KITTY GETS A BATH
July 01, 2008 - Bad Kitty usually cleans herself. Sometimes, however,when Poor Puppy chases her into a garbage can, for instance, she really needs a bath. Everyone knows that cats hate baths. "It's not that cats don't like baths. It's not that cats have a |
| Davis, Eleanor STINKY
July 01, 2008 - Deep in the swamp dwells Stinky, a purple, spotted monster with horns and a hedgehog 'do. Stinky lives up to his name, and the swamp is the perfect place for him: "I love the mushy, mucky mud. / I love the slimy slugs. / And I love the stinky smell! |
| Fagan, Cary THING-THING
July 01, 2008 - Staying on the sixth floor of the Excelsior Hotel, Archibald Crump is unhappy with all the hundreds of presents he's gotten for his birthday. His father runs down to the toy store to find something his spoiled son doesn't have already, settling on |
| Gifford, Peggy MOXY MAXWELL DOES NOT LOVE WRITING THANK-YOU NOTES
July 01, 2008 - Ten-year-old Moxy Maxwell has 13 thank-you notes to finish before she and her twin brother Mark can go visit their father in Hollywood at the end of their Christmas vacation. Part of Moxy's current career plan includes becoming a rich and famous |
| Hayes, Sarah DOG DAY
July 01, 2008 - With just a "Woof! Woof!" Ben and Ellie's new teacher has the class's rapt attention. Riff, an inquisitive-looking canine, wags his tail. With glee, his observant charges wag their bottoms. When he scratches an ear, they scratch all over. The |
| Hopkins, Ellen IDENTICAL
July 01, 2008 - Hopkins's gift with free verse reaches new heights in this portrait of splintered identical twins. Sexual abuse, a fatal car accident and violent alcoholism have wrecked their family. Mom disappears by running for Congress. Daddy drinks Wild Turkey |
| Hurley, Tonya GHOSTGIRL
July 01, 2008 - The only place social-climbing wallflower Charlotte Usher seems destined to go is Loserville until she chokes herself to death on a gummy bear in physics lab and passes from the world of the living to dead. Even there, though, she's dubbed a scrub |
| Thomas, Patricia RED SLED
July 01, 2008 - A father and son go sledding in this deceptively simple tale. They are sad, so the father takes the boy out for some fun, as conveyed through a brief but descriptive poem. The lettering that makes up the clipped rhymes is as large as the subjects of |
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| Going It Alone
July 01, 2008 - Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was in many ways an anomaly among the previous century's major American writers. A greatly gifted and enduringly beautiful woman, she earned early recognition as a pristine stylist whose haunting fiction evoked the energetic symbolism of Hawthorne and Poe; equaled and frequently surpassed the achievements of her great contemporaries Hemingway and Faulkner; and blazed a trail of thematic and rhetorical possibility traveled by such disciples and soul mates as Eudora Welty, Jean Stafford and Flannery O'Connor.
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