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From fashion to film, gift-worthy coffee table books abound

NEW YORK (AP) - Come holiday time, there's never a shortage of splashy coffee table books to please just about any aficionado. Some suggestions: Fashion & style “Fashion Made Fair,” by Magdalena ...

Nov 17, 2016
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Tragedy, hope and a little magic mix in 'Faithful'

“Faithful” By Alice Hoffman Simon & Schuster (272 pages, $26) Shelby is that girl in high school -- the smart one who seems popular and happy when basking in the reflected glow of her best friend,...

Nov 16, 2016
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How electric guitar came to dominate music world

“Play It Loud” By Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna Doubleday (379 pages, $26.95) The scream of the electric guitar was the dominant soundtrack of the 20th century. First developed to provide loude...

Nov 16, 2016
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Charming stories of English village life in 'Notwithstanding'

“Notwithstanding” By Louis de Bernieres Vintage (372 pages, $16) “Notwithstanding,” the new collection of 22 short stories from Louis de Bernieres, is utterly charming. And, no, that’s not damning...

Nov 16, 2016
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Short, masterful take on Hitchcock's life and works

“Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life” By Peter Ackroyd Doubleday (276 pages, $26.95) There are days when an 800-page biography of some fascinating person is just what we want to dive into. And then, th...

Nov 16, 2016
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In ‘Mister Monkey,’ solo voices create harmony

“Mister Monkey” By Francine Prose Harper (285 pages, $26.99) Francine Prose’s “Mister Monkey,” a novel about a very bad musical, leaves you with the feeling you have after watching a really good m...

Nov 9, 2016
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A journalist takes on China in ‘Boat Rocker’

“The Boat Rocker” By Ha Jin Pantheon (240 pages, $25.95) “You’re like a little turtle attempting to rock a boat shared by two huge countries.” Hence the title of Ha Jin’s “The Boat Rocker,” in wh...

Nov 9, 2016
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James Buchanan resonates in current climate

“Enough Said” By Mark Thompson St. Martin’s (342 pages, $27.99) “Worst. President. Ever” By Robert Strauss Lyons (257 pages, $26.95) The United States of America is a place made of words. In t...

Nov 9, 2016
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Belafonte, Mantel among this year’s ‘Library Lions’

NEW YORK (AP) -- Being named a “Library Lion” by the New York Public Library was one of Harry Belafonte’s easier awards. “I was pleasantly surprised when I learned about this,” the activist and ente...

Nov 8, 2016
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In ‘Truevine,’ complex tale of racial exploitation, dogged reporting

"Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South” By Beth Macy Little, Brown and Company (432 pages, $28) Beth Macy started hearing the stories back ...

Nov 3, 2016
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Jean Kennedy Smith writes of childhood in famous political family

“The Nine of Us” By Jean Kennedy Smith Harper (272 pages, $29.99) Jean Kennedy Smith takes comfort in memory in her new book, “The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy.” Now 88, the last of her parents’...

Nov 3, 2016
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Al Capone bio suffers from acceptance of relatives' stories as fact

“Capone” By Deirdre Bair Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (395 pages, $30) Go into any souvenir store on a touristy Chicago street and behold the man: Al Capone. His visage will adorn T-shirts, refrigerato...

Nov 3, 2016
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Accepting award, Murakami warns against excluding outsiders

TOKYO (AP) - Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami warned against excluding outsiders and rewriting history as he accepted the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. Murakami spoke Sunday in Odense, ...

Nov 1, 2016
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Dylan tells Swedish Academy he accepts Nobel Prize

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Bob Dylan has accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy said, adding that getting the prestigious award left him “speechless.‘’ The academy's perm...

Oct 30, 2016
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What happened when Nadia got pregnant?

“The Mothers” By Brit Bennett Riverhead (278 pages, $26) The Mothers of Upper Room Chapel are worried about the future: “Anyone knows a church is only as good as its women, and when we all passed ...

Oct 26, 2016
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