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Friday, August 15, 2008
BOOK EVENTS:
Best-sellers of the week As reported by Publishers Weekly Hardcover fiction 1. Moscow Rules, Daniel Silva 2. The Host, Stephenie Meyer 3. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne... Book Review "Pharmakon": A smart, pharmaceutical pick-me-up Dirk Wittenborn's new novel, "Pharmakon," covers nearly half a century of medicine, pharmacology, psychology and nearly every neurosis you can imagine and is smart, funny and first-rate. Book Review "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star": A life-altering journey retraced Thirty-three years after his first adventures in Asia, Paul Theroux returns and discovers a staggeringly changed world in "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar" Book Review "The 19th Wife": Exploration of polygamy has one too many stories Writer David Ebershoff's novel, "The 19th Wife," is two stories: one based on the life of Ann Eliza Young, one of Mormon leader Brigham Young's 19 wives who divorced him and became a crusader against polygamy. The second, a modern murder mystery, parallels the first, but it's Ann Eliza's epic story that will rivet readers. Book Review "Something to Tell You": Revisiting the foibles of '80s Londoners Hanif Kureishi's novel "Something to Tell You" revisits 1980s London, the terrain of his memorable film "My Beautiful Laundrette," with mixed results. Book Review "B Street": colorful stories from the good-time town that sprang up in the shadow of Grand Coulee Dam In "B Street: The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam," author Lawney L. Reyes interweaves two narratives: the story of the Indian villages that were inundated by the Grand Coulee Dam project, and of the wide-open, hell-raising, pleasure-seeking boomtown that sprang up during its construction. Book Review "The Night of the Gun": Candid lessons on abuse from an addictive writer In "The Night of the Gun," New York Times columnist David Carr revisits the people and places from an era when his crack and cocaine addiction nearly destroyed him. Book Review 3 sci-fi novels weave history around magic, a giant and extraordinary power Book reviews of three new speculative fiction titles that imagine history as it might have been (or will be): "Bring Down the Sun," by Judith Tarr; "Awesome," by Jack Pendarvis; and "Superpowers," by David L. Schwartz. Book Review "The Power of Place": For most of us, geography is our destiny In "The Power of Place," geographer Harm de Blij refutes the "flattening" effects of globalization, contending that for most of the world, geography is still destiny. A roundup of books with Seattle-area ties A selection of new titles by Washington authors, or of local interest. "In His Sights": Stalking victim's memoir is a chronicle of sick mind games "In His Sights" is a riveting memoir by a woman who has been stalked for decades by her old boyfriend, who still watches her and lets her know it in dozens of bizarre and threatening ways. (Tue, 8/12) American Life in Poetry "Sunflower" Hearts and flowers, that's how some people dismiss poetry, suggesting that's all there is to it, just a bunch of sappy poets weeping over... (Tue, 8/12)
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