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Review: `Whip Smart' describes life as dominatrix
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:44:01 GMT
AP - "Whip Smart" (Thomas Dunne Books, $24.99, 288 pages), by Melissa Febos. The memoir is a popular genre in books, thanks to writers like Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris and even James Frey. So these days, if you're going to write a memoir, you need to be original.
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Spanish novelist Miguel Delibes dies at 89
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:58:40 GMT
AP - Miguel Delibes, an acclaimed and prolific novelist whose work featured gritty depictions of rural life in post-civil war Spain and psychological analyses of characters facing turning points, died Friday. He was 89.
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Author writes about loss, family in India and US
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:17:11 GMT
AP - "Secret Daughter" (William Morrow, 352 pages, $23.99), by Shilpi Somaya Gowda: Sometimes the image in our minds of what we have lost is far greater than the loss itself, and so it is for Asha, who was given up for adoption by her birth parents in India.
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Jodi Picoult knows `Rules' of engaging readers
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:47:31 GMT
AP - "House Rules" (Atria, 353 pages, $28), by Jodi Picoult: Jodi Picoult knows her audience. She tends to write family dramas that tug at the heartstrings. Her books have short chapters, usually written from the perspective of the main characters, and often have a surprise ending.
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