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Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen 's memoir about her mother's decades-long fight with Alzheimer’s. Ann lives with her family ...

Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History by Mark Bailey , illustrated by Edward Hemingway , published by Algonquin Bo...

Heloise's fellow villagers managed the destruction as best they could. Piles of salvageable belongings lined the street of half-stand...

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The Booker Prize is awarded each year for a full-length novel, written English and published in the UK. The Booker was traditionally a...

The 2014 Booker Prize went to Richard Flanagan for The Narrow Road to the Deep North , a “magnificent novel of love and war” that tells ...

Wexford opened the bottom drawer of his desk, the one where he kept personal, semi-official things, grotesqueries that had interested him...

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Author J.M. Mitchell had a long career with the National Park Service before he turned his attention to writing a series of mysteries fe...

Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers tugged the door of the super's office shut, walked stiffly past his secretary, and made her way int...

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Food-centered memoirs are a big hit with me.  Reading these memoirs -- either classics or newer books -- is what makes the Foodies Read C...

By the end of those parties, the tables in our living room with little cities, full of empty glasses, glasses with a cube or two, glasses...

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The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club started in Fontana, just west of San Bernardino, around 1948. . . .  Although club members claimed to be...

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FIVE FAVE THRILLERS I always like a good thriller, my escapist genre of choice.  Thrillers I distinguish from mysteries in a fuzzy, o...

I get the jitters just thinking of the volume of coffee regularly imbibed in Portland – hipster baristas grind and pull thousands of shot...

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Susan Winkler had the enviable job of writing, and updating, The Paris Shopping Companion: A Personal Guide to Shopping in Paris for Eve...