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A look at two books written about one man: Mary Tillman’s Boots on the Ground by Dusk and Jon Krakauer’s Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman.
By Sarah Marian Seltzer / New York
Sunday, October 4, 2009

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A review of Patrick Radden Keefe’s account of a Chinese-immigrant-smuggling operation.
By Ellen G. Wernecke / New York
Monday, September 7, 2009

Last Updated ( Saturday, September 12, 2009 )
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Sisters of fate PDF Print Email
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Lisa See’s Shanghai Girls tells the piercingly painful tale of two sisters’ odyssey from Shanghai to San Francisco.
By Sarah Marian Seltzer / New York
Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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Solving the meth “puzzle" PDF Print Email
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Nick Reding’s Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town explores one of middle America’s “great escapes.”
By Matthew Jonathan Heller / Los Angeles
Monday, July 6, 2009

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Memoirs of China PDF Print Email
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Susan Jane Gilman’s Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven.
By Emma Kat Richardson / Detroit
Monday, May 4, 2009

Last Updated ( Monday, May 4, 2009 )
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Brother One Cell PDF Print Email
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A look at life behind the bars of a South Korean prison.
By Reviewed by James Card / Seoul and Changwon, South Korea
Monday, February 2, 2009

Last Updated ( Wednesday, February 4, 2009 )
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From the page to the stage PDF Print Email
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The universality of David Sedaris — a review of When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
By Emma Kat Richardson / Detroit
Monday, December 1, 2008

Last Updated ( Tuesday, December 2, 2008 )
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When the foxes guard the henhouse PDF Print Email
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The unusual relationship between John McCain and the media.
By Amy Brozio-Andrews and Aaron Richner / Albany, New York
Monday, November 3, 2008

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God and the "chosen one" PDF Print Email
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An evangelical Christian looks at what religion means to Obama.
By Tracy O'Neill
Monday, October 6, 2008

Last Updated ( Thursday, October 9, 2008 )
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