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Published: Aug 28, 08

1) Anne-Marie Slaughter recommends Three Books about China, which look at that nation's leaders, economy, and its past; 2) Tennis great Billie Jean King's new book "Pressure is a Privelege" revisits the historic battle of the sexes game with Bobby Riggs; 3) Writer Tony Giardina says you must read "Movie Love in the Fifties" by James Harvey; 4) "My Mercedes Is Not For Sale" by Dutch journalist Jeroen van Bergeijk shows that nearly everyone in Africa wants to buy one; 5) Children's book
Published: Aug 21, 08

1) Vientiane, the capital city of Laos is the setting for Colin Cotterill's "Dr. Siri" mystery novels; 2) 2008 is the year of Richard Wright's centennial - Juan Williams speaks with Julia Wright, daughter of the author of "Black Boy" and "Native Son"; 3) Three Books with "Bark and Bite" for the dog days of summer; 4) Writer Walter Dean Myers tries to convey the African American experience in fiction to another generation; 5) "Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States" by C
Published: Aug 18, 08

1) "The Obama Nation" by Jerome Corsi is hitting bookstore shelves and bestseller lists - despite factual inaccuracies; 2) A deeper look at the political "Swift-booking" industry; 3) In "Warrior Girls" Michael Sokolove explores the risk of injuries faced by young female athletes; 4) A continuing fight over the rights to some of John Steinbeck's most famous books; 5) Historian Jason Goodwin uses the Istanbul of the past in his mystery novels, including his latest, "The Snake Stone"; 6) Al
Published: Aug 14, 08

1) Matt Beynon Rees sets his new mystery, "The Samaritan's Secret" in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank; 2) The owner of a bookstore in Decatur, Georgia is soliciting funds from customers to help pay bills; 3) Writers from Santa Cruz attempt to capture the play of light and sun on the Pacific Ocean; 4) Alan Cheuse reviews Nobel prize winner Doris Lessing's new novel "Alfred & Emily"; 5) Publication of the controversial historical novel "The Jewel of Medina" by Sherry Jones was postpon
Published: Aug 11, 08

1) Morning Edition's "Crime in the City" series goes to Glasgow, Scotland with the novelist Denise Mina, whose protagonist is the depressive Maureen O'Donnell; 2) "In Lincoln's Shadow" chronicles the race riots of Springfield, Illinois that erupted a century ago; 3) Michael Chabon's alternate-history novel "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" wins this year's Hugo award for Science Fiction; 4) George Orwell's diary reconceived as a blog, with each entry posted 70 years to the day later; 5) Patri
Published: Aug 4, 08

1) Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1970, and wrote "The Gulag Archipelago" has died at the age of 89; 2) Virginia Woolf may have been accurately representing the the way the brain works in her novel "Mrs. Dalloway"; 3) Brunonia Barry's novel "The Lace Reader" is a self-publishing success story; 4) Three Books on being in a band: Tom Perotta's "The Wishbones", "Mom, Have You Seen My Leather Pants?" by Craig A. Williams, and "Fargo Rock C
Published: Jul 31, 08

1) Librarians attending the "Comic-Con" convention looking for the latest Japanese manga to put on their shelves; 2) Sheryll Cashin writes her family's history of activism in "The Agitator's Daughter"; 3) Discarded Shopping lists are the inspiration for Hillary Carlip's book "a la Carte" as she transforms herself into the creators of the lists; 4) The novel "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" is set during the World War II occupation of the island off of Britain; 5) "A Fe
Published: Jul 28, 08

1) Randy Pausch, the professor whose "Last Lecture" led to the best-selling book about his life and lessons learned, has died at the age of 47; 2) Three Books on the topic of the environment: "American Earth", "Where the Wild Things Were", and "The Carbon Age"; 3) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a new book called "Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters"; 4) Three Books on Pirates, both historical and contemporary: "Under the Black Flag", "Dangerous Waters", and about pira
Published: Jul 24, 08

1) The most dangerous days in U.S. history: the Cuban Missile Crisis, in Michael Dobbs' new book "One Minute to Midnight"; 2) "Daring To Look" by Anne Whiston Spirn collects the iconic depression-era photographs and less well-known writings of Dorothea Lange; 3) The thriller "Illegal Action" by Stella Rimington, the former head of Britain's MI-5 intelligence agency; 4) "Three Books" on the topic of baseball; 5) The summer camp experience is remembered and deconstructed in "Camp Camp: W
Published: Jul 21, 08

1) Joseph Wambaugh brings experience with police departments and knowledge of the city of Los Angeles to his mystery novels and non-fiction works; 2) Henry Fleming, the protagonist of "The Red Badge of Courage" is the latest subject of the series "In Character" ; 3) Lawyer and author Stephen L. Carter's latest novel is "Palace Council"; 4) A blend of botany, faith, and mythology in Christina Meldrum's debut novel "Madapple"; 5) Kay Ryan, the newly named next U.S. Poet Laureate
Published: Jul 17, 08

1) "The Dark Side" by journalist Jane Mayer explores the interrogation techniques used by the US, and treatment received by prisoners of the War on Terror; 2) The Crime in the City series visits the secrets of New Orleans... in the mysteries of author Julie Smith; 3) E. Lynn Harris writes of a straight college football player's celibacy in his new novel "Just Too Good To Be True"; 4) Mystery writer Chelsea Cain can't help but look for dead bodies around Portland, Oregon; 5) Alan Cheuse
Published: Jul 14, 08

1) Writer Brad Meltzer says you must read "Replay" by Ken Grimwood; 2) Looking at Boston through the eyes of mystery writer Robert B. Parker, creator of the private eye Spenser; 3) In "The Forger's Spell", Edward Dolnick tells the true story of Han van Meegeren, who created fake works by Vermeer; 4) Mystery writer Sarah Graves sets her "Home Repair is Homicide" series in her adopted town of Eastport, Maine; 5) Cokie Roberts on the power of the founding mothers of the U.S. in "Ladies of
Published: Jul 10, 08

1) "Goodnight Bush" parodies a classic children's book, with a bitingly political bent; 2) Librarian Nancy Pearl recommends ideal reads for airplane trips; 3) Hamlet is updated and moved to the midwest in David Wroblewski's "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" and Lin Enger's "Undiscovered Country"; 4) Is "The Four-Hour Workweek" possible? Author Timothy Ferris says time is a scarce currency; 5) Three Books on the subject of shipwrecks
Published: Jul 7, 08

1) A challenge for amazon's Kindle e-reader: how does it stand up to a visit to a pool? 2) Three Books celebrating independence; 3) "Curse of the Black Gold" examines Nigeria's troubled history with oil exploration and its effects on the country's environment and population; 4) Wordsworth, Coleridge and the birth of the English Romantic Movement; 5) Were Shakespeare's plays actually written by the Earl of Oxford? 6) Summer thrillers reviewed by Alan Cheuse
Published: Jul 3, 08

1) Author Jonathan Raban says you must read Evelyn Waugh's "Put Out More Flags" - a comedic novel set in the early days of the second World War ; 2) A duel between rival actors portraying Hamlet leads to "The Shakespeare Riots"; 3) Maureen Corrigan reviews Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland"; 4) "Rome 1960" by David Maraniss looks at the Olympics games that 'changed the world'; 5) Benjamin Wittes looks at "Law and the Long War" - what the role of the courts will and should be in fighting terr