tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79373189131915765292024-03-19T03:58:08.903+08:00Turning BoholanoOn the road to wellness and spiritual strengthTito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.comBlogger379125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-65539610044939532722012-12-25T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-25T00:00:03.084+08:00Christmas Greetings!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-55566494557665829082012-12-24T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-24T00:00:00.283+08:00Delightful Noche Buena additions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-27686206519417802872012-12-23T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-23T00:00:04.457+08:00The birth of Jesus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-55750890050444779822012-12-19T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-19T00:00:03.444+08:00Madelicious: Hot pandesal right off the oven<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The manager told me that they churn out
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What’s unusual about this bake shop is
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What I often do is grab a seat in one
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="Madelicious:0" grmarkguid="f60a4830-cce2-4252-be8d-1aa8092af9d3" gruiphraseguid="380ae04f-8d30-4464-9bb3-14936f07c170">Madelicious</span> Bakeshop is located in <span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="Gallares:0" grmarkguid="39700650-5b9c-41b4-9cdf-f44fdf1771c4" gruiphraseguid="5afc285d-12b4-429a-b8b2-3cd327e3f7f7">Gallares</span> Street in Tagbilaran. And from <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="what:0" grmarkguid="482a7931-a26b-48e1-9a05-d61bd8075f16" gruiphraseguid="fdbdc956-9c2c-4792-aa9f-1c690b619a57">what</span> I learned online, Madelicious started operation in July 1998 in the City of Iligan by Mr. <span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="Marianito:0" grmarkguid="6fdfdbcd-4924-4a58-9313-a0bbff338216" gruiphraseguid="39eb1a50-7ebb-40e4-8062-2bb342498971"><span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="Marianito:0" grmarkguid="0859cc64-383c-4ecf-ac93-cdaa1f38dc4e" gruiphraseguid="168cad11-f8c7-4c36-9d08-72b0cd80368b">Marianito</span></span> Dumadag Alemania and Mrs. <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="Madel:0" grmarkguid="3ee5f50b-d5ea-4341-8795-ed1ef1a09d05" gruiphraseguid="d80feddc-bf81-452f-8b57-341cfbabe559"><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="Madel:0" grmarkguid="28070cc5-948d-439d-8f5e-30bc96cea026" gruiphraseguid="807a483d-23d1-422a-8bad-a64684bcc805">Madel</span></span> Penaso Alemania. They <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="now:0" grmarkguid="4047153b-9b2f-47d6-9ad7-4b7f970d563d" gruiphraseguid="691636bb-55fa-46e8-8a88-0dd92fdad816">now</span> have 44 branches and outlets all over Mindanao, Tagbilaran City, and in
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-20470935940699075452012-12-18T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-18T00:00:03.864+08:00Home really is where the heart is<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>Home really is where the heart is. And
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="GingerNoCheckStart"></span>Whenever asked by those visiting Bohol where the best place to grab some <i><span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="pasalubong:0" grmarkguid="10b41f20-8cd6-471b-ab31-02ed4f1ca8ff" gruiphraseguid="1391dfd1-3502-4aad-bad0-8e087108fb14">pasalubong</span></i> for their family and friends back home, I always direct them to <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="BQ Mall:1" grmarkguid="d639ed54-963e-4ad9-a61f-a2f8aded7fbd" gruiphraseguid="1391dfd1-3502-4aad-bad0-8e087108fb14">BQ Mall</span> in Tagbilaran.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There they will find almost all the packaged delicacies the province of Bohol is known for, including various versions of <i><span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="kalamay:0" grmarkguid="791a63a4-e3dc-4741-b4ff-b2eee5b75bb1" gruiphraseguid="8e594b3e-e4bc-42f5-ad94-9bb8f46094ae">kalamay</span>. </i> Also, if buying in bulk, the store will neatly pack them in sturdy cartons to survive the trip back home.</span></div>
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-81205025574073410732012-12-15T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-15T00:00:04.068+08:00White Bread is "dead" bread<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Canadian government passed a law prohibiting
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98% magnesium, 75% manganese, 50% potassium, and 65% of copper is destroyed. If
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It is obvious, from what we have learned,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I very much appreciate my articles and
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-31842484352502816362012-12-14T00:00:00.001+08:002012-12-14T00:00:05.208+08:00Human body hosts about 10,000 germ species<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span class="GingerNoCheckStart"></span><span class="GingerNoCheckStart"></span>Scientists of the Human Microbiome Project had calculated that healthy people share their bodies with with as much as 10,000 species of microbes.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is old news, I know, but perhaps, still worth reposting. So, read on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Virtually everybody harbors low levels of some harmful types of bacteria,
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Your skin could be like a rainforest, your intestines teeming with different
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Some 200 scientists from nearly 80 research institutions worked
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Thank you!</span><span class="GingerNoCheckEnd"></span><span class="GingerNoCheckEnd"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Giuseppe Pizzeria & Sicilian Roast</b> <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="is located:0" grmarkguid="c93f4415-27fe-4c42-945a-7cf5e9c6f5cc" gruiphraseguid="3e28e22d-b3a1-4709-85d9-bb2b9aaed0fb">is located</span> along Panglao Island's main highway about 400 meters from Rona's corner that leads to Alona Beach. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a fine Italian restaurant that serves delectable pizzas, pasta, and various authentic Sicilian dishes. It is definitely one of the best restaurants in Bohol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Giuseppe's charges an additional 10% service charge for dine in patrons, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit their website: <a href="http://www.giuseppe-bohol.com/" target="_blank">Giuseppe Pizzeria & Sicilian Roast</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Next year, 2013, marks a milestone for Vevey-based food company <a href="http://qz.com/28350/how-nestle-stimulated-the-coffee-market-in-aninstant/" target="_blank">Nestlé.</a> It’s the 75th anniversary of its introduction of Nescafé instant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nestlé’s long track record of coffee
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here in the Philippines, according to <a href="http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=21&title=Sustained-local-Robusta-coffee-supply-sought&id=61052" target="_blank"><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="Business World Online:0" grmarkguid="07ebe552-e644-4718-a4e3-d00d16ed54e5" gruiphraseguid="9fe0cace-1418-44eb-afb5-a8774fc2d1b2">Business World Online</span></a>, Nestlé is projecting to purchase as much as 204,000 metric tons of coffee beans straight from local growers by the year 2020 through Farmer Connect, a direct buying system that targets small farmers and small-scale intermediaries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The statement quoted Hans Joehr,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"The Farmer Connect program is
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"As local farmers bring in and
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"In effect, what we are really
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">These buying stations are where coffee
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<b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="GingerNoCheckStart"></span>Neurosis</b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> was coined by the Scottish
</span><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="c05a6970ca47f755b9232ad28ebcd45d738e1f84" grtype="null" id="GRmark_c05a6970ca47f755b9232ad28ebcd45d738e1f84_doctor:0" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">doctor</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> William Cullen in 1769 to refer to "disorders of </span><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="c05a6970ca47f755b9232ad28ebcd45d738e1f84" grtype="null" id="GRmark_c05a6970ca47f755b9232ad28ebcd45d738e1f84_sense:1" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">sense</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> and
</span><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="fb9ab3621f7b4e32fd8c062101c301795ba00f91" grtype="null" id="GRmark_fb9ab3621f7b4e32fd8c062101c301795ba00f91_motion:0" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">motion</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">" caused by a "general affection of the nervous system".
For him, it described various nervous disorders and symptoms that could not be
</span><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="b740907195d4c084e333aec27caf3eaaa93a149e" grtype="null" id="GRmark_b740907195d4c084e333aec27caf3eaaa93a149e_explained:0" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">explained</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> physiologically. It derives from the Greek word "νεῦρον"
(</span><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="7f1841dcc73961ad95a0e1960ca3c4f4f6156093" grtype="null" id="GRmark_7f1841dcc73961ad95a0e1960ca3c4f4f6156093_neuron:0" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">neuron</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, "nerve") with the suffix -</span><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="7f1841dcc73961ad95a0e1960ca3c4f4f6156093" grtype="null" id="GRmark_7f1841dcc73961ad95a0e1960ca3c4f4f6156093_osis:1" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="osis:1" grmarkguid="41b7e61d-7d7b-4b52-8d7d-b0d00b11a5b6" gruiphraseguid="a0bd86da-4189-4c6f-b2f2-082fbaa33227">osis</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> (diseased or abnormal condition).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The term was however most
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="578f5f72dc74ccf2dbb45d9c04bdbe7e7c835d57" grtype="null" id="GRmark_578f5f72dc74ccf2dbb45d9c04bdbe7e7c835d57_influentially:0">influentially</span> defined by Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud over a century later. It
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="27ae81532a1733a22c64ae5f0e83a75ae358a1e6" grtype="null" id="GRmark_27ae81532a1733a22c64ae5f0e83a75ae358a1e6_has:0">has</span> continued to be used in contemporary theoretical writing in psychology and
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="1d289bc0cde7031c10135bdc78df11d375ee9336" grtype="null" id="GRmark_1d289bc0cde7031c10135bdc78df11d375ee9336_philosophy:0">philosophy</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There are many forms of neurosis:
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="9f9c269db909ba27bc51afaa17a59a2386eeeef9" grtype="null" id="GRmark_9f9c269db909ba27bc51afaa17a59a2386eeeef9_obsessive:0">obsessive</span>–compulsive disorder, anxiety neurosis, hysteria (in which anxiety may
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="05f927b64ea9ade086cc292cf879bf8b7493c1e3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_05f927b64ea9ade086cc292cf879bf8b7493c1e3_be:0">be</span> discharged through a physical symptom), and a nearly <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="05f927b64ea9ade086cc292cf879bf8b7493c1e3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_05f927b64ea9ade086cc292cf879bf8b7493c1e3_endless variety of:1">endless variety of</span>
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="42248eeaa212932ba9ee8aca9f666743c2e53fd3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_42248eeaa212932ba9ee8aca9f666743c2e53fd3_phobias:0">phobias</span> as well as obsessions such as pyromania. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">According to C. George Boeree,
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="fcc2fb9d55cd982ad41a38941d37145b9e598d8c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_fcc2fb9d55cd982ad41a38941d37145b9e598d8c_professor:0">professor</span> emeritus at Shippensburg University, effects of neurosis can involve:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">...anxiety,
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="fac09ee35c0aa8ec64e6909d5e370b568ecb4fa8" grtype="null" id="GRmark_fac09ee35c0aa8ec64e6909d5e370b568ecb4fa8_sadness:0">sadness</span> or depression, anger, irritability, mental confusion, low sense of
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="4862a2cba4a6d4c81b5ef7ae50bc4ee8b67d798f" grtype="null" id="GRmark_4862a2cba4a6d4c81b5ef7ae50bc4ee8b67d798f_self-worth:0">self-worth</span>, etc., behavioral symptoms such as phobic avoidance, vigilance,
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="00f68d8e13f6e6bccfbeb881ad177274623c8b68" grtype="null" id="GRmark_00f68d8e13f6e6bccfbeb881ad177274623c8b68_impulsive:0">impulsive</span> and compulsive acts, lethargy, etc., cognitive problems such as
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="bb0ef28740cab655c796734a3a2335dab853cc83" grtype="null" id="GRmark_bb0ef28740cab655c796734a3a2335dab853cc83_unpleasant:0">unpleasant</span> or disturbing thoughts, repetition of thoughts and obsession,
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="b246bfdfdaa478105ed58947b26c0081585abc83" grtype="null" id="GRmark_b246bfdfdaa478105ed58947b26c0081585abc83_habitual:0">habitual</span> fantasizing, negativity and cynicism, etc. Interpersonally, neurosis
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="37a336aca68070933c86d67c5ba89d7920b0b4c8" grtype="null" id="GRmark_37a336aca68070933c86d67c5ba89d7920b0b4c8_involves:0">involves</span> dependency, aggressiveness, perfectionism, schizoid isolation,
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="fde8b28d555a755ca244196b88a810ac1ad63c0a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_fde8b28d555a755ca244196b88a810ac1ad63c0a_socio:0">socio</span>-culturally inappropriate behaviors, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As an illness, neurosis represents a
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="39c7dbaf45609765dab35d265aa73fa809a1f126" grtype="null" id="GRmark_39c7dbaf45609765dab35d265aa73fa809a1f126_variety:0">variety</span> of mental disorders in which emotional distress or unconscious conflict
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="23ae0078b672bb583434cd2a627be41b3cfa69d8" grtype="null" id="GRmark_23ae0078b672bb583434cd2a627be41b3cfa69d8_is:0">is</span> expressed through various physical, physiological, and mental disturbances,
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="65b0417c8b4b3801af3fbbf60b19a529d8601fca" grtype="null" id="GRmark_65b0417c8b4b3801af3fbbf60b19a529d8601fca_which:0">which</span> may include physical symptoms (e.g., hysteria). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The definitive symptom is anxieties.
Neurotic tendencies are common and may manifest themselves as depression, acute
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="57e8af351e447d32feb08d1f4a221dd0312b384a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_57e8af351e447d32feb08d1f4a221dd0312b384a_or:0">or</span> chronic anxiety, obsessive–compulsive tendencies, specific phobias, such as
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="be3bbae94ff46c991c866f315785164e128d75ae" grtype="null" id="GRmark_be3bbae94ff46c991c866f315785164e128d75ae_social:0">social</span> phobia, <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="be3bbae94ff46c991c866f315785164e128d75ae" grtype="null" id="GRmark_be3bbae94ff46c991c866f315785164e128d75ae_arachnophobia:1">arachnophobia</span> or any number of other phobias, and some
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="9262edacbb3d6eb66704f1415c51c6fff3ccdb05" grtype="null" id="GRmark_9262edacbb3d6eb66704f1415c51c6fff3ccdb05_personality:0">personality</span> disorders: paranoid, schizotypal, borderline, histrionic, avoidant,
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="6bf4c70dfe1cacabd7d060572db0ab15560459c2" grtype="null" id="GRmark_6bf4c70dfe1cacabd7d060572db0ab15560459c2_dependent:0">dependent</span> and obsessive–compulsive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It has perhaps been <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="82877361c0116b1cc4a92b0b5e746c872463e765" grtype="null" id="GRmark_82877361c0116b1cc4a92b0b5e746c872463e765_most simply:0">most simply</span>
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="52d6ff07f52e6cb6267705aeee9c2b38c7230da3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_52d6ff07f52e6cb6267705aeee9c2b38c7230da3_defined:0">defined</span> as a "poor ability to adapt to one's environment, an inability to
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="61b450b9c3bd1cdcd2090a257919c620c849b35a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_61b450b9c3bd1cdcd2090a257919c620c849b35a_change one's life:0">change one's life</span> patterns, and the inability to develop a richer, more
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="77d6bb5a28fe6c00b247573e0c9f66e6c8d24e37" grtype="null" id="GRmark_77d6bb5a28fe6c00b247573e0c9f66e6c8d24e37_complex:0">complex</span>, more satisfying personality." Neurosis should not be mistaken for
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="8d76e81c53d319d5dacd4b835ffc56688b1085e0" grtype="null" id="GRmark_8d76e81c53d319d5dacd4b835ffc56688b1085e0_psychosis:0">psychosis</span>, which refers to loss of touch with reality, or <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="8d76e81c53d319d5dacd4b835ffc56688b1085e0" grtype="null" id="GRmark_8d76e81c53d319d5dacd4b835ffc56688b1085e0_neuroticism:1">neuroticism</span>, a
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="28e40425424197bc738f7fb0a1acefe1ff73c0fe" grtype="null" id="GRmark_28e40425424197bc738f7fb0a1acefe1ff73c0fe_fundamental:0">fundamental</span> personality trait according to psychological theory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">According to psychoanalytic theory,
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="8eb0e565d63705de202980a493c52bd5b85bfd25" grtype="null" id="GRmark_8eb0e565d63705de202980a493c52bd5b85bfd25_neuroses:0">neuroses</span> may be rooted in ego defense mechanisms, but the two concepts are not
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="a763f19bac9e491114f88232f087391602948583" grtype="null" id="GRmark_a763f19bac9e491114f88232f087391602948583_synonymous:0">synonymous</span>. Defense mechanisms are a normal way of developing and maintaining a
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="eebad78410f3b75ce7b37aa1d510a243636434fe" grtype="null" id="GRmark_eebad78410f3b75ce7b37aa1d510a243636434fe_consistent:0">consistent</span> sense of self (i.e., an ego), while only those thoughts and behavior
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="37484081c7c0f76ab9bdb610602552cd2d58135b" grtype="null" id="GRmark_37484081c7c0f76ab9bdb610602552cd2d58135b_patterns:0">patterns</span> that produce difficulties in living should be termed "neuroses".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Main article: Jung's theory of
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Carl Jung found his approach
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="6956c4a62ddb10a26d1f4a41ec3c499918296e8e" grtype="null" id="GRmark_6956c4a62ddb10a26d1f4a41ec3c499918296e8e_particularly:0">particularly</span> fitting for people who are successfully adjusted by normal social
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="430351cfd4e243ce2ee8b1aad09dbc11aaf775c9" grtype="null" id="GRmark_430351cfd4e243ce2ee8b1aad09dbc11aaf775c9_standards:0">standards</span>, but who nevertheless have issues with the meaning of their life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I have frequently seen people become
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="5b31990bf1b41aae92fe04e00ee0c5ea998cda8c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_5b31990bf1b41aae92fe04e00ee0c5ea998cda8c_neurotic:0">neurotic</span> when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="3e9874045d0ffa4fe5d5b1ae3d5c914c2664720c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_3e9874045d0ffa4fe5d5b1ae3d5c914c2664720c_questions:0">questions</span> of life (Jung, [1961] 1989:140).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith (Jung, [1961] 1989:140).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">[Contemporary man] is blind to the
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="f544610824f2cc500bb2af808fdc66ceced59c4c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_f544610824f2cc500bb2af808fdc66ceced59c4c_fact:0">fact</span> that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by
"<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="7ba515c3ed02e797db8c5e68dd18aceafd10bb18" grtype="null" id="GRmark_7ba515c3ed02e797db8c5e68dd18aceafd10bb18_powers:0">powers</span>" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="fbcc89dc6109445d042fc16b9e2ae17927ce044c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_fbcc89dc6109445d042fc16b9e2ae17927ce044c_disappeared:0">disappeared</span> at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="3add297423fdc7063cdd2a143924e84a86552feb" grtype="null" id="GRmark_3add297423fdc7063cdd2a143924e84a86552feb_with:0">with</span> restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="e80163aa0bc9df433a571894353abf561646c69a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_e80163aa0bc9df433a571894353abf561646c69a_insatiable:0">insatiable</span> need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food – and, above all, a large
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="5968aff8dcb5445b85794c0f80936027ca099770" grtype="null" id="GRmark_5968aff8dcb5445b85794c0f80936027ca099770_array:0">array</span> of neuroses. (Jung, 1964:82).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jung found that the unconscious finds
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="747bb06a4c159165f97e3197723d35f682b32f8a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_747bb06a4c159165f97e3197723d35f682b32f8a_expression:0">expression</span> primarily through an individual's inferior psychological function,
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="0caa21bf1c1d55aa482cd1540cc18348bdc3e1d7" grtype="null" id="GRmark_0caa21bf1c1d55aa482cd1540cc18348bdc3e1d7_whether:0">whether</span> it is thinking, feeling, sensing, or intuition. The characteristic
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="f21f9a0571d38d18bd4b2155343f9f668401c9d0" grtype="null" id="GRmark_f21f9a0571d38d18bd4b2155343f9f668401c9d0_effects:0">effects</span> of a neurosis on the dominant and inferior functions are discussed in
Psychological Types.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosis" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-88948197914958331692012-12-10T00:00:00.001+08:002012-12-10T00:00:02.371+08:00Dates: Health benefits<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I had always loved dates, but realized
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="they:0" grmarkguid="14fbf8b2-d8de-453f-b8bf-1c3953af88f7" gruiphraseguid="daad96f3-dfb0-45f5-bb12-dcb5b67752a6">they</span> are hard to find here in the Philippines.
In New York, almost all supermarkets carry an ample supply. I often had a quart of dates in the fridge, especially on weekends. They are
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="extremely:0" grmarkguid="7cbf1c07-954f-41be-bf22-8ec8b1d569dc" gruiphraseguid="44121aff-a7fd-4659-b8bf-af71be9bc6de">extremely</span> delicious … and sweet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A friend residing in Dubai suggested
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="that:0" grmarkguid="d3e2a47a-b326-4506-9342-1475b062f33a" gruiphraseguid="cd0e5f49-2a32-4237-91d4-5aa7161be9f0">that</span> I <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="visit:1" grmarkguid="0404ed2d-b4a1-4cd0-b15d-65788138e606" gruiphraseguid="cd0e5f49-2a32-4237-91d4-5aa7161be9f0">visit</span> with his family and feast on various kinds of dates. I might just take him up on it one of these
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="days:0" grmarkguid="1609037d-2a3a-4d5e-8fdc-1d0d036d32c3" gruiphraseguid="1c3c6228-0748-4cda-850f-0ea0d918ced8">days</span>. Be that as it may, according to
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_dactylifera" target="_blank">Wiki</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_dactylifera" target="_blank">pedia,</a> dates have been a staple food of the Middle East and parts of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="South:0" grmarkguid="9f7b4c68-b908-4e21-93d1-9350a71bf9b2" gruiphraseguid="771a523e-d4cb-41f0-8180-11f49c9619ac">South</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
Asia for thousands of years. They are believed to have originated around Iraq,
</span><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="and:0" grmarkguid="8fbf628a-659d-4ee8-ac64-c33d19491b1d" gruiphraseguid="918021a6-cb5e-4d18-b2b1-aa01a1c016b1" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> have been cultivated since ancient times from Mesopotamia to prehistoric
Egypt, possibly as early as 4000 BCE. The Ancient Egyptians used the fruits </span><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="to:0" grmarkguid="dda1963e-7cf3-4b43-b4dd-6c98ef4d9b4d" gruiphraseguid="93ebeb09-e282-4e1f-af11-657d140bb81c" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
</span><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="be:0" grmarkguid="833423ce-4b73-4d6f-b48d-0d5d70cbc3e1" gruiphraseguid="760cedb1-7d50-4ca4-b722-f761d9ae2481" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">be</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> made into date wine, and ate them at harvest. There is archaeological
</span><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="evidence:0" grmarkguid="417f69b2-2785-4df1-98c5-cb24ad59a9bb" gruiphraseguid="289e6e5a-2b02-4fe1-b116-a4467ebe8978" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">evidence</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> of date cultivation in eastern Arabia in 6000 BCE. (Alvarez-Mon 2006).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In addition, dry or soft dates are
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="eaten:0" grmarkguid="0c6c0faf-21a6-4281-a53b-4c80d23b6d4f" gruiphraseguid="2503d92b-edd2-4b3b-b44c-8d8cd4b69bf5">eaten</span> out-of-hand, or may be pitted and stuffed with fillings such as almonds,
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="walnuts:0" grmarkguid="825d513f-87b5-4519-a4e2-0de4d63e6355" gruiphraseguid="fed370d9-d688-47bc-a433-f758a42def30">walnuts</span>, candied orange and lemon peel, <span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="tahini:1" grmarkguid="f4f9ea67-5cbe-4c0b-880c-caffc44a105d" gruiphraseguid="fed370d9-d688-47bc-a433-f758a42def30">tahini</span>, marzipan or cream cheese.
Pitted dates are also referred to as stoned dates. Partially dried pitted dates
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="may:0" grmarkguid="fa19cb6a-30d4-41b9-92b4-6e0f66be99de" gruiphraseguid="491fc583-7a09-48ff-ac12-3e24c776e1ea">may</span> be glazed with glucose syrup for use as a snack food. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dates can also be chopped and used in
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="a:0" grmarkguid="c55cca2b-7016-4cba-8b91-4a6824385720" gruiphraseguid="8c6c1002-aa7e-4940-8b7b-72644e4fc0cb">a</span> range of sweet and savory dishes, from <span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="tajines:1" grmarkguid="f5126a00-a752-4a14-b0e7-4fdb5d766982" gruiphraseguid="8c6c1002-aa7e-4940-8b7b-72644e4fc0cb">tajines</span> (<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="tagines:2" grmarkguid="1445d15e-b19e-4c35-b301-9ed6bc753dba" gruiphraseguid="8c6c1002-aa7e-4940-8b7b-72644e4fc0cb">tagines</span>) in Morocco <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="to:3" grmarkguid="fcd29ea7-8c38-416b-97f0-90e901ad8e4c" gruiphraseguid="8c6c1002-aa7e-4940-8b7b-72644e4fc0cb">to</span>
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="puddings:0" grmarkguid="e60e9e6f-ff70-4272-8d58-925fc6758ff4" gruiphraseguid="19bbf4eb-84d2-43a2-ac7b-1e7203cf8153">puddings</span>, <span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="ka'ak:1" grmarkguid="4e1f9ee7-dae7-4597-a5a4-df893baf39b8" gruiphraseguid="b4fb399b-0d6f-4c0f-935a-08136dc960dc">ka'ak</span> (types of Arab cookies) and other dessert items. Date nut bread, a type of cake, is very popular in the United States, especially around holidays. Dates are also processed into cubes, paste called "'<span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="ajwa:0" grmarkguid="916b62b4-51a4-4f0e-99fa-ce04b2fad2c0" gruiphraseguid="e790b7dd-dbfd-44c8-9114-8dc84460e62b">ajwa</span>", spread, date syrup or "honey" called "dibs" or "rub" in Libya, powder (date sugar), vinegar or alcohol. Vinegar made
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="from:0" grmarkguid="b5666138-47d7-49d9-9547-d608ae817ae4" gruiphraseguid="5a068389-a214-4dee-b562-3ed096998c7e">from</span> dates is a traditional product of the Middle East. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Recent innovations include
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="chocolate:0" grmarkguid="bbb0901c-2bca-4f35-b44d-d78c160fc4f5" gruiphraseguid="d8c50128-2319-49ef-8d21-f6809ca88e38">chocolate</span>-covered dates and products such as sparkling date juice, used in some
Islamic countries as a non-alcoholic version of champagne, for special
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="occasions:0" grmarkguid="eec8bfe0-5200-45d0-90ce-57c13f76da67" gruiphraseguid="bea31793-a3bd-448d-887c-a651f1e90339">occasions</span> and religious times such as Ramadan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Most important, herewith a list of the
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="health:0" grmarkguid="13b81ff8-cd16-4033-8771-c574b1f6dad8" gruiphraseguid="92bc0487-0871-4440-bde6-8af012e34c6a">health</span> benefits of consuming dates: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1) Dates are free from cholesterol and
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="contain:0" grmarkguid="543f75b7-52f7-44b6-8a8c-c7257788616c" gruiphraseguid="d1d2599e-2e7c-444e-a99c-57541f87eec7">contain</span> very low fat. Dates are rich in vitamins and minerals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2) They are rich sources of protein,
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="dietary:0" grmarkguid="061c0c12-c5be-4818-bec6-c3b28922b691" gruiphraseguid="9085612b-22c1-4056-a3d8-9019944c80e5">dietary</span> fiber and rich in vitamin B1, B2, B3 and B5 along with vitamin A1 and
C. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">3 <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="):0" grmarkguid="2abd10fa-72b3-48ec-9ce9-2a410d3d0532" gruiphraseguid="78950476-c241-4f35-b2c8-b173d2494777">)</span>It helps improve the digestive
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="system:0" grmarkguid="efcac54c-a571-4fe4-b2f0-147e479624f7" gruiphraseguid="71f3d4dc-80ee-4688-a2cd-4b827ae29246">system</span> as it contains soluble and insoluble fibers and different kinds of amino
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="acids:0" grmarkguid="4bdc95c5-0764-4cae-a68a-112e410ce223" gruiphraseguid="79e97ebc-57de-46bb-8d14-2ae39b7a1e53">acids</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">4) Dates are great energy boosters as
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="they:0" grmarkguid="e4c9c0a6-cd3a-43f7-a96d-c75cdaa669cd" gruiphraseguid="228aa1d2-5d9f-4432-949b-65d71cb95aa4">they</span> contain natural sugars like glucose, sucrose and fructose. To get more
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="advantage:0" grmarkguid="655d2f32-0069-4fd6-b834-37de4310c721" gruiphraseguid="b9815561-ae1f-4394-ae74-a525ee67b5b8">advantage</span> <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="add:1" grmarkguid="22bfeb73-e767-4987-95d0-790513ac9934" gruiphraseguid="b9815561-ae1f-4394-ae74-a525ee67b5b8">add</span> dates to milk and make it a very nutritious snack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">5) Dates are very low in calories and
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="are:0" grmarkguid="25bb016d-5618-44c2-8c2f-0a0491597717" gruiphraseguid="3f9c90b6-3997-429f-b2d8-9e656ceca4b4">are</span> extremely suitable for health conscious people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">6) Dates are rich in potassium and
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<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="have:0" grmarkguid="11eb590c-0315-49d4-a984-1c6a1cbf89f1" gruiphraseguid="a46bbc79-bd52-408e-a954-3665de5ff160">have</span> revealed the fact that potassium intake up to a certain extent can reduce
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="risk:0" grmarkguid="f7ca5948-3bbe-4989-bbf4-9ebc14657c87" gruiphraseguid="4c98e927-8f8c-4c8d-8714-bafff6bc080a">risk</span> of stroke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">7) Dates also help in lowering of the
LDL cholesterol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">8) Dates have high iron content and
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">9) Dates also have fluorine that slows
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">10) It helps people suffering from
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="constipation:0" grmarkguid="14bef0fe-455d-4e71-988f-13f9a3e73d34" gruiphraseguid="757b226d-663c-44c0-aff6-7532d8e5a4c8">constipation</span>. Soak dates overnight and take it along with water for added
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">11) Dates help in weight gain and are
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">12) Dates are excellent for alcohol
<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="intoxication:0" grmarkguid="73e61224-db42-4117-a0c0-5847810bb1f9" gruiphraseguid="8c69a2f4-5696-4f16-8673-ce823654ce59">intoxication</span>. It is known to cure abdominal cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">13) It also helps in improving eyesight
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">14) The best thing is that it does not
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Suggested reads:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Oregon State University: <a href="http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/nutr216/ref/symposium_jambi.html" target="_blank">Dates – The holy fruit of Arabia</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Organic Facts: <a href="http://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/fruit/health-benefits-of-dates.html" target="_blank">Health Benefits of Dates</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Please note:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i><span class="GingerNoCheckStart"></span>I know there is but One Mind, which is
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>I know there is a divine pattern for
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>I know that the mind of man, being one
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>Thus harmony, peace, cooperation,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>I know there shall be a <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="42a74c980081bffdd5ff82b3268165e8da61a4f9" grtype="null" id="GRmark_42a74c980081bffdd5ff82b3268165e8da61a4f9_free:0">free</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>I know that, because the divine Mind
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>In bringing about world peace, I know
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>I know that deep within every person,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>I now declare that in each man and in
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>So it is—Now.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Originally published in Science of Mind magazine, October 1950. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/at-last-the-final-installment-of-edward-st-aubyns-patrick-melrose-cycle.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AT LAST</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_15" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Edward St. Aubyn<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_16" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.)</em> The final and most meditative of St<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_17" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> Aubyn’s brilliant Patrick Melrose novels is full of precise observations and glistening turns of phrase<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_18" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/books/review/beautiful-ruins-a-novel-by-jess-walter.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BEAUTIFUL RUINS</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_19" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Jess Walter. (Harper/HarperCollins, $25<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_20" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>99.)</em> Walter’s witty sixth novel, set largely in Hollywood, reveals an American landscape of vice, addiction, loss and disappointed hopes<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_21" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/books/review/billy-lynns-long-halftime-walk-by-ben-fountain.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_22" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Ben Fountain. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $25.99<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_23" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> The survivors of a fierce firefight in Iraq are whisked <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="4226aefcbe15f226a3b6b48d5c95a95e940e9771" grtype="null" id="GRmark_4226aefcbe15f226a3b6b48d5c95a95e940e9771_stateside:0">stateside</span> for a brief victory tour in this satirical novel<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_24" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/blasphemy-by-sherman-alexie.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BLASPHEMY</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_25" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Sherman Alexie. (Grove, $27.)</em> The best stories in Alexie’s collection of new and selected works are moving and funny, bringing together the embittered critic and the yearning dreamer<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_26" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/books/review/the-book-of-mischief-by-steve-stern.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE BOOK OF MISCHIEF: New and Selected Stories</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_27" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Steve Stern. (Graywolf, $26<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_28" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Jewish immigrant lives observed with effusive nostalgia<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_29" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/bring-up-the-bodies-by-hilary-mantel.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BRING UP THE BODIES</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_30" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Hilary Mantel. (Macrae/Holt, $28.)</em> Mantel’s sequel to “Wolf Hall” traces the fall of Anne Boleyn, and makes the familiar story fascinating and suspenseful again<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_31" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/books/review/building-stories-by-chris-ware.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BUILDING STORIES</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_32" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Chris Ware. (Pantheon, $50<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_33" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> A big, sturdy box containing <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="45dffe5b27c46fc7a02d07f2c8f8617d30627607" grtype="null" id="GRmark_45dffe5b27c46fc7a02d07f2c8f8617d30627607_hard-bound:0">hard-bound</span> volumes, pamphlets and a tabloid houses Ware’s demanding, melancholy and magnificent graphic novel about the inhabitants of a Chicago building<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_34" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/books/review/by-blood-a-novel-by-ellen-ullman.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BY BLOOD</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_35" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Ellen Ullman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_36" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> This smart, slippery novel is a narrative striptease, as a professor listens in on the sessions between the therapist next door and her patients<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_37" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/books/review/canada-by-richard-ford.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CANADA</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_38" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Richard Ford. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_39" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>99.)</em> A boy whose parents rob a bank in Montana in 1960 takes refuge across the border in this mesmerizing novel, driven by fully realized characters and an accomplished prose style<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_40" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/carry-the-one-a-novel-by-carol-anshaw.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CARRY THE ONE</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_41" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Carol Anshaw. (Simon & Schuster, $25.)</em> Anshaw pays close attention to the lives of a group of friends bound together by a fatal accident in this wry, humane novel, her fourth<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_42" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/city-of-bohane-by-kevin-barry.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CITY OF BOHANE</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_43" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Kevin Barry<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_44" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Graywolf, $25.)</em> Somewhere in Ireland in 2053, people are haunted by a “lost time,” when something calamitous happened, and hope to reclaim the past<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_45" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> Barry’s extraordinary, exuberant first novel is full of inventive language<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_46" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/books/review/jack-gilberts-collected-poems.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">COLLECTED POEMS</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_47" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Jack Gilbert. (Knopf, $35<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_48" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> In orderly free verse constructions, Gilbert deals plainly with grief, love, marriage, betrayal and lust<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_49" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/books/review/dear-life-stories-by-alice-munro.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DEAR LIFE: Stories</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_50" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Alice Munro. (Knopf, $26.95.)</em> This volume offers further proof of Munro’s mastery, and shows her striking out in the direction of a new, late style that sums up her whole career<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_51" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/the-devil-in-silver-by-victor-lavalle.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">THE DEVIL IN SILVER </a></strong><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_52" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Victor LaValle<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_53" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></em><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Spiegel & Grau, $27.)</em> LaValle’s culturally observant third novel is set in a shabby urban mental hospital<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_54" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/kathryn-harrisons-enchantments.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ENCHANTMENTS</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_55" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Kathryn Harrison. (Random House, $27.)</em> Harrison’s splendid and surprising novel of late imperial Russia centers on Rasputin’s daughter Masha and the hemophiliac czarevitch Alyosha<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_56" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/books/review/flight-behavior-by-barbara-kingsolver.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FLIGHT BEHAVIOR</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_57" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Barbara Kingsolver<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_58" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></em> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Harper/HarperCollins, $28.99.)</em> An Appalachian woman becomes involved in an effort to save monarch butterflies in this brave and majestic novel<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_59" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/books/review/fobbit-by-david-abrams.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FOBBIT</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_60" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By David Abrams.</em><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, paper, $15<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_61" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Clerks, cooks and lawyers at a forward operating base in Iraq populate this first novel<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_62" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/books/review/the-forgetting-tree-by-tatjana-soli.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE FORGETTING TREE</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_63" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Tatjana Soli. (St. Martin’s, $25<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_64" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>99.)</em> In Soli’s haunting second novel, a mysterious Caribbean woman cares for a cancer patient on an isolated California ranch<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_65" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/gathering-of-waters-by-bernice-l-mcfadden.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">GATHERING OF WATERS</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_66" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Bernice L. McFadden. (Akashic, $24.95<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_67" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Three generations of black women confront floods and murder in Mississippi<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_68" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/gods-without-men-by-hari-kunzru.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">GODS WITHOUT MEN</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_69" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Hari Kunzru. (Knopf, $26.95.)</em> Related stories, spanning centuries and continents, and all tethered to a desert rock formation, emphasize <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d6ea6973d6754beb5aea647a903ad64282c3e71b" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d6ea6973d6754beb5aea647a903ad64282c3e71b_interconnectivity:0">interconnectivity</span> across time and space in Kunzru’s relentlessly modern fourth novel<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_70" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/books/review/hhhh-a-novel-by-laurent-binet.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="abafd782ed98edc670f2177151503651b81b1f5e" grtype="null" id="GRmark_abafd782ed98edc670f2177151503651b81b1f5e_HHhH:0">HHhH</span></strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_71" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Laurent Binet<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_72" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> Translated by Sam Taylor. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_73" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> This gripping novel examines both the killing of an SS general in Prague in 1942 and Binet’s experience in writing about it<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_74" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/books/review/a-hologram-for-the-king-by-dave-eggers.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_75" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dave Eggers. (McSweeney’s, $25<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_76" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Eggers’s novel is a haunting and supremely readable parable of America in the global economy, a nostalgic lament for a time when life had <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d65e1767d54730f4ed05ed4ea336f2d9087f3fcf" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d65e1767d54730f4ed05ed4ea336f2d9087f3fcf_stakes:0">stakes</span> and people worked with their hands<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_77" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/books/review/home-a-novel-by-toni-morrison.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOME</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_78" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Toni Morrison. (Knopf, $24.)</em> A black Korean War veteran, discharged from an integrated Army into a segregated homeland, makes a reluctant journey back to Georgia in a novel engaged with themes that have long haunted Morrison<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_79" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/books/review/hope-a-tragedy-by-shalom-auslander-book-review.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOPE: A TRAGEDY</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_80" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Shalom Auslander. (Riverhead, $26<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_81" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> Hilarity alternates with pain in this novel about a Jewish man seeking peace in upstate New York who discovers Anne Frank in his attic<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_82" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/books/review/how-should-a-person-be-by-sheila-heti.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_83" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">?</b></strong> </a><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Sheila Heti. (Holt, $25.)</em> The narrator (also named Sheila) and her friends try to answer the question in this novel’s title<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_84" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/books/review/in-one-person-by-john-irving.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IN ONE PERSON</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_85" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By John Irving<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_86" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Simon & Schuster, $28.) </em>Irving’s funny, risky new novel about an aspiring writer struggling with his sexuality examines what happens when we face our desires honestly<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_87" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/the-yard-by-alex-grecian-and-more.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_88" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Wiley Cash. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $24.99<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_89" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> An evil pastor dominates Cash’s mesmerizing first novel<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_90" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/books/review/married-love-stories-by-tessa-hadley.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MARRIED LOVE: And Other Stories</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_91" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Tessa Hadley. (Harper Perennial, paper, $14<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_92" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>99.)</em> Hadley’s <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="4de178fbf66f825af969489ec1c414aa3d936daf" grtype="null" id="GRmark_4de178fbf66f825af969489ec1c414aa3d936daf_understatedly:0">understatedly</span> beautiful collection is filled with exquisitely calibrated gradations and expressions of class<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_93" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/books/review/nw-by-zadie-smith.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NW</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_94" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Zadie Smith<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_95" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></em> (Penguin <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Press, $26.95.)</em> The lives of two friends who grew up in a northwest London housing project diverge, illuminating questions of race, class, sexual identity and personal choice, in Smith’s energetic modernist novel<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_96" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/books/review/poems-and-stories-by-lucia-perillo.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ON THE SPECTRUM OF POSSIBLE DEATHS</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_97" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Lucia Perillo. (Copper Canyon, $22<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_98" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Taut, lucid poems filled with complex emotional reflection<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_99" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/books/review/pure-julianna-baggotts-dystopian-novel.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PURE</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_100" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Julianna Baggott. (Grand Central, $25.99.)</em> Children battle for the planet’s redemption in this precisely written <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="7e55bbd59bd346d2f36779af9c3f8a3a6b9c650d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_7e55bbd59bd346d2f36779af9c3f8a3a6b9c650d_postapocalyptic:0">postapocalyptic</span> adventure story<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_101" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/books/review/the-right-hand-shore-by-christopher-tilghman.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE RIGHT-HAND SHORE</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_102" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Christopher Tilghman<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_103" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.)</em> A dark, magisterial novel set on a Chesapeake Bay estate<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_104" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/books/review/the-round-house-by-louise-erdrich.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE ROUND HOUSE</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_105" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> By Louise Erdrich. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_106" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> In this novel, an American Indian family faces the ramifications of a vicious crime<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_107" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/salvage-the-bones-by-jesmyn-ward-book-review.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SALVAGE THE BONES</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_108" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Jesmyn Ward. (Bloomsbury, $24.)</em> A pregnant 15-year-old and her family await Hurricane Katrina in this lushly written novel<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_109" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/books/review/san-miguel-by-t-coraghessan-boyle.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SAN MIGUEL</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_110" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By T. Coraghessan Boyle. (Viking, $27<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_111" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> Two utopians from different eras establish private idylls on California’s desolate Channel Islands; this novel preserves their tantalizing dreams.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/review/shine-shine-shine-by-lydia-netzer.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SHINE SHINE SHINE</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_112" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Lydia Netzer. (St<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_113" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> Martin’s, $24.99.)</em> This thought-provoking debut novel presents a geeky astronaut and his pregnant wife<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_114" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/books/review/shout-her-lovely-name-by-natalie-serber.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_115" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Natalie Serber. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_116" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> The stories in <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="0eca814c0ffb9ff4bc0d955661f1469f0ce6bc22" grtype="null" id="GRmark_0eca814c0ffb9ff4bc0d955661f1469f0ce6bc22_Serber’s first collection:0">Serber’s first collection</span> are smart and nuanced<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_117" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/books/review/silent-house-by-orhan-pamuk.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SILENT HOUSE</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_118" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Orhan Pamuk. Translated by Robert Finn. (Knopf, $26.95<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_119" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> A family is a microcosm of a country on the verge of a coup in this intense, foreboding novel, first published in Turkey in 1983<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_120" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/the-starboard-sea-amber-dermonts-debut-novel.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE STARBOARD SEA</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_121" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Amber Dermont. (St. Martin’s, $24.99<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_122" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Dermont’s captivating debut novel, whose narrator is a boarding school student and a sailor, takes pleasure in the sea and in the exhilarating freedom of being young<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_123" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/sweet-tooth-by-ian-mcewan.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SWEET TOOTH</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_124" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Ian McEwan. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $26<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_125" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> The true subject of this smart and tricky novel, set inside a cold war espionage operation, is the border between make-believe and reality<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_126" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/swimming-home-by-deborah-levy.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SWIMMING HOME</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_127" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Deborah Levy<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_128" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Bloomsbury, paper, $14.)</em> In this spare, disturbing and frequently funny novel, a troubled young woman tests the marriages of two couples<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_129" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/books/review/telegraph-avenue-by-michael-chabon.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TELEGRAPH AVENUE</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_130" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Michael Chabon. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_131" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="bfb8f61e4a0f2689b5ed3f64672356e22c53305f" grtype="null" id="GRmark_bfb8f61e4a0f2689b5ed3f64672356e22c53305f_):0">)</span></em>Chabon’s rich comic novel about fathers and sons in Berkeley and Oakland, Calif<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_132" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>, juggles multiple plots and mounds of pop culture references in astonishing prose<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_133" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/books/review/the-testament-of-mary-by-colm-toibin.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE TESTAMENT OF MARY</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_134" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Colm Toibin<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_135" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Scribner, $19.99.)</em> This beautiful work takes power from the surprises of its language and its almost shocking characterization of Mary, mother of Jesus<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_136" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/books/review/this-is-how-you-lose-her-by-junot-diaz.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_137" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Junot Díaz. (Riverhead, $26<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_138" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> The stories in this collection are about love, but they’re also about the undertow of family history and cultural mores, presented in Díaz’s exciting, irresistible and entertaining prose<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_139" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/books/review/three-strong-women-by-marie-ndiaye.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THREE STRONG WOMEN</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_140" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Marie NDiaye. Translated by John Fletcher. (Knopf, $25<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_141" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> In loosely linked narratives, three women from <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="712adb6cb4e15ea9ee50b9cd1e561d79e8e597e9" grtype="null" id="GRmark_712adb6cb4e15ea9ee50b9cd1e561d79e8e597e9_Senegal struggle:0">Senegal struggle</span> with fathers and husbands in France<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_142" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> This subtle, hypnotic novel won the Prix Goncourt in 2009<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_143" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/tobys-room-by-pat-barker.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">TOBY’S ROOM </a></strong><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_144" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Pat Barker.</em><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Doubleday, $25<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_145" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> This novel, a sequel to “Life Class,” delves further into the lives of an English family torn apart by World War I.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/books/review/thomas-mallon-reimagines-watergate.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WATERGATE</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_146" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Thomas Mallon. (Pantheon, $26<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_147" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> This novelistic reimagining of the “third-rate burglary” proposes surprising motives for the break-in and the 18-minute gap, and has a sympathetic Nixon<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_148" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/books/review/nathan-englanders-new-collection.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK: Stories</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_149" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Nathan Englander. (Knopf, $24.95<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_150" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Englander tackles large questions of morality and history in a masterly collection that manages to be both insightful and uproarious<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_151" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/the-yellow-birds-by-kevin-powers.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">THE YELLOW BIRDS </a></strong><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_152" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Kevin Powers.</em><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Little, Brown, $24<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_153" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>99.)</em> A young private and his platoon struggle through the war in Iraq but find no peace at home in this powerful and moving first novel about the frailty of man and the brutality of war<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_154" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/all-we-know-three-lives-by-lisa-cohen.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ALL WE KNOW: Three Lives</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_155" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Lisa Cohen<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_156" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d8cc7ebc6d083f4c803b77a5548f64ad4e7d423a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d8cc7ebc6d083f4c803b77a5548f64ad4e7d423a_):0">)</span></em>The vanished world of <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d8cc7ebc6d083f4c803b77a5548f64ad4e7d423a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d8cc7ebc6d083f4c803b77a5548f64ad4e7d423a_midcentury:1">midcentury</span> upper-class lesbians is portrayed as beguiling, its inhabitants members of a stylish club<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_157" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/books/review/american-tapestry-by-rachel-l-swarns.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AMERICAN TAPESTRY: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_158" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Rachel L. <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="22cbaf321afe1159d6b1028117a857abb4f3b487" grtype="null" id="GRmark_22cbaf321afe1159d6b1028117a857abb4f3b487_Swarns:0">Swarns</span>. (Amistad/HarperCollins, $27.99<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_159" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> A Times reporter’s deeply researched chronicle of several generations of Mrs. Obama’s family<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_160" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/american-triumvirate-by-james-dodson.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AMERICAN TRIUMVIRATE: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_161" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By James Dodson. (Knopf, $28.95.)</em> The author evokes an era when the game was more vivid and less corporate than it seems now<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_162" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/books/review/are-you-my-mother-by-alison-bechdel.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ARE YOU MY MOTHER<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_163" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">?</b> A Comic Drama</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_164" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Alison Bechdel. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_165" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Bechdel’s engaging, original graphic memoir explores her troubled relationship with her distant mother<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_166" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/books/review/barack-obama-by-david-maraniss.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BARACK OBAMA: The Story</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_167" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By David Maraniss. (Simon & Schuster, $32<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_168" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>50.<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="e58a73c54d186276ec1304e79674bdfab5416538" grtype="null" id="GRmark_e58a73c54d186276ec1304e79674bdfab5416538_):0">)</span></em>This huge and absorbing new biography, full of previously unexplored detail, shows that Obama’s saga is more surprising and gripping than the version we’re familiar with<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_169" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/katherine-boos-behind-the-beautiful-forevers-explores-a-mumbai-slum.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_170" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Katherine Boo. (Random House, $27.)</em> This extraordinary moral inquiry into life in an Indian slum shows the human costs exacted by a brutal social Darwinism<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_171" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/books/review/belzoni-the-giant-archaeologists-love-to-hate-by-ivor-noel-hume-book-review.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BELZONI: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_172" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Ivor Noël Hume<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_173" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d8db29732754abfb6665655a007f29836dabefe2" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d8db29732754abfb6665655a007f29836dabefe2_.:0">.</span></b>(University of Virginia, $34.95.)</em> The fascinating tale of the 19th-century Italian monk, a “notorious tomb robber,” who gathered archaeological treasures in Egypt while crunching bones underfoot<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_174" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/books/review/the-black-count-by-tom-reiss.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE BLACK COUNT: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_175" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Tom Reiss. (Crown, $27<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_176" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> The first Alexandre Dumas, a mixed-race general of the French Revolution, is the subject of this imaginative biography<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_177" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/books/review/breasts-by-florence-williams.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BREASTS: A Natural and Unnatural History</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_178" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Florence Williams. (Norton, $25.95<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_179" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Williams’s environmental call to arms deplores chemicals in breast milk and the vogue for silicone implants<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_180" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/charles-murray-examines-the-white-working-class-in-coming-apart.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">COMING APART: The State of White America, 1960-2010</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_181" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Charles Murray. (Crown Forum, $27<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_182" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> The author of “The Bell Curve” warns that the white working class has abandoned the “founding virtues<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_183" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>”</div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/books/review/darwins-ghosts-by-rebecca-stott.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DARWIN’S GHOSTS: The Secret History of Evolution</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_184" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Rebecca Stott. (Spiegel & Grau, $27.)</em> Stott’s lively, original history of evolutionary ideas <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="b6ea8d62671263eef19fcbd0a35ca71734d1fd83" grtype="null" id="GRmark_b6ea8d62671263eef19fcbd0a35ca71734d1fd83_flows:0">flow</span> easily across continents and centuries<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_185" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/books/review/a-disposition-to-be-rich-by-geoffrey-c-ward.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A DISPOSITION TO BE RICH: How a Small-Town Preacher’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_186" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Geoffrey C. Ward. (Knopf, $28<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_187" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> The author’s ancestor was the bane of Ulysses S. Grant<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_188" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/far-from-the-tree-by-andrew-solomon.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FAR FROM THE TREE: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_189" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Andrew Solomon. (Scribner, $37.50<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_190" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> This passionate and affecting work about what it means to be a parent is based on interviews with families of “exceptional” children<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_191" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/books/review/the-story-of-lawrence-v-texas-by-dale-carpenter.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FLAGRANT CONDUCT<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_192" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> The Story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_193" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Dale Carpenter<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_194" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Norton, $29.95.<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="9b32d35394f816e78b9909fa3232e7f96b236930" grtype="null" id="GRmark_9b32d35394f816e78b9909fa3232e7f96b236930_):0">)</span></em>Carpenter stirringly describes the 2003 Supreme Court decision that overturned the Texas sodomy law<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_195" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/the-folly-of-fools-by-robert-trivers-book-review.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE FOLLY OF FOOLS: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_196" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Robert Trivers. (Basic Books, $28<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_197" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> An intriguing argument that deceit is a beneficial evolutionary “deep feature” of life<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_198" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/books/review/the-grey-album-by-kevin-young.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE GREY ALBUM: On the Blackness of Blackness</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_199" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Kevin Young. (Graywolf, paper, $25.)</em> A poet’s lively account of the central place of the trickster figure in black American culture could have been called “How Blacks Invented America<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_200" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>”</div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/haiti-the-aftershocks-of-history-by-laurent-dubois-book-review.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HAITI: The Aftershocks of History</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_201" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Laurent Dubois. (Metropolitan/Holt, $32<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_202" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Foreign meddling, the lack of a democratic tradition, a humiliating American occupation and cold-war support of a brutal dictator all <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="47312fb352f691afde2c219c2df96c4af4846f3d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_47312fb352f691afde2c219c2df96c4af4846f3d_figure:0">figure</span> in a scholar’s well-written analysis<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_203" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/books/review/how-children-succeed-by-paul-tough.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_204" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Paul Tough. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_205" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> Noncognitive skills like persistence and self-control are more crucial to success than sheer <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="0b4450646acbca33b9b8271d3e7c0e2ee85fce90" grtype="null" id="GRmark_0b4450646acbca33b9b8271d3e7c0e2ee85fce90_brainpower:0">brainpower</span>, Tough maintains<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_206" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/books/review/david-byrnes-how-music-works.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOW MUSIC WORKS</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_207" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By David Byrne. (McSweeney’s, $32<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_208" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> This guidebook also explores the eccentric rock star’s personal and professional experience<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_209" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/iron-curtain-by-anne-applebaum.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IRON CURTAIN: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_210" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Anne Applebaum. (Doubleday, $35.)</em> An overwhelming and convincing account of the Soviet push to colonize Eastern Europe after World War II<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_211" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/books/review/kayak-morning-reflections-on-love-grief-and-small-boats-by-roger-rosenblatt-book-review.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">KAYAK MORNING: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_212" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Roger Rosenblatt. (Ecco/HarperCollins, paper, $13<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_213" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>99.)</em> This thoughtful meditation on the evolution of grief over time asks the big questions<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_214" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/books/review/lincolns-code-by-john-fabian-witt.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LINCOLN’S CODE: The Laws of War in American History</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_215" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By John Fabian Witt. (Free Press, $32.)</em> A tension between humanitarianism and righteousness has shaped America’s rules of warfare<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_216" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/books/review/little-america-by-rajiv-chandrasekaran.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LITTLE AMERICA: The War Within the War <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="ce2461d65041c333bdbced5f02ec60e64fb7b566" grtype="null" id="GRmark_ce2461d65041c333bdbced5f02ec60e64fb7b566_for:0">for</span> Afghanistan</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_217" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Rajiv Chandrasekaran<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_218" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Knopf, $27.95.)</em> A beautifully written and deeply reported account of America’s troubled involvement in Afghanistan<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_219" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/review/memoir-of-a-debulked-woman-by-susan-gubar.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN: Enduring Ovarian Cancer</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_220" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Susan Gubar. (Norton, $24<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_221" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> A feminist scholar recounts her experience and criticizes the medical treatment of a frightening disease in a voice that is straightforward and incredibly brave<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_222" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/books/review/my-poets-by-maureen-n-mclane.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MY POETS</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_223" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Maureen N. McLane. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.)</em> Part memoir and part criticism, this friendly book includes essays on poets canonical and contemporary, as well as <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="885bbf85deaa0381b214b462fefd6bfca2085235" grtype="null" id="GRmark_885bbf85deaa0381b214b462fefd6bfca2085235_lineated:0">lineated</span> poem-games<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_224" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/books/review/the-obamas-by-jodi-kantor.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE OBAMAS</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_225" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Jodi Kantor<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_226" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Little, Brown, $29.99.)</em> Michelle Obama sets the tone and tempo of the current White House, Kantor argues in this admiring account, full of colorful insider anecdotes<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_227" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/books/review/oddly-normal-by-john-schwartz.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ODDLY NORMAL: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms With His Sexuality</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_228" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By John Schwartz. (Gotham, $26<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_229" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> A Times reporter’s deeply affecting account of his son’s coming out also reviews research on the experience of LGBT kids<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_230" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/books/review/on-a-farther-shore-by-william-souder.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ON A FARTHER SHORE: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_231" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By William Souder. (Crown, $30.)</em> An absorbing biography of the pioneering environmental writer on the 50th anniversary of “Silent Spring<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_232" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>”</div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/books/review/on-saudi-arabia-by-karen-elliott-house.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ON SAUDI ARABIA: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines — and Future</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_233" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Karen Elliott House. (Knopf, $28<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_234" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> A Pulitzer <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="2568b50812e7c67e75ef0b18bdc7f1885e30540f" grtype="null" id="GRmark_2568b50812e7c67e75ef0b18bdc7f1885e30540f_Prize-winning:0">Prize-winning</span> journalist unveils this inscrutable country, comparing its calcified regime <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="2568b50812e7c67e75ef0b18bdc7f1885e30540f" grtype="null" id="GRmark_2568b50812e7c67e75ef0b18bdc7f1885e30540f_to:1">to</span> the Soviet Union in its final days<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_235" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/books/review/the-one-rj-smiths-biography-of-james-brown.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE ONE: The Life and Music of James Brown</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_236" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By RJ Smith. (Gotham, $27.50<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_237" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="32a1abffc64a176efb31eb0efe3b51fe6104de1d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_32a1abffc64a176efb31eb0efe3b51fe6104de1d_):0">)</span></em>Smith argues that Brown was the most significant modern American musician in terms of style, messaging, rhythm and originality<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_238" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/review/the-passage-of-power-robert-caros-new-lbj-book.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE PASSAGE OF POWER: The Years of Lyndon Johnson</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_239" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Robert A. Caro. (Knopf, $35.)</em> The fourth volume of Caro’s magisterial work spans the five years that end shortly after Kennedy’s assassination, as Johnson prepares to push for a civil rights act<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_240" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/books/review/the-patriarch-a-joseph-p-kennedy-biography-by-david-nasaw.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE PATRIARCH: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_241" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By David Nasaw. (Penguin Press, $40<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_242" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> This riveting history captures the sweep of Kennedy’s life — as <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="7229348b89034300d7224a3967b369d96e468acd" grtype="null" id="GRmark_7229348b89034300d7224a3967b369d96e468acd_Wall Street speculator:0">Wall Street speculator</span>, <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="7229348b89034300d7224a3967b369d96e468acd" grtype="null" id="GRmark_7229348b89034300d7224a3967b369d96e468acd_moviemaker:1">moviemaker</span>, ambassador and dynastic founder<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_243" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/books/review/people-who-eat-darkness-by-richard-lloyd-parry.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up</a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_244" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Richard Lloyd Parry. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, paper, $16<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_245" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> An evenhanded investigation of a murder.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/books/review/red-brick-black-mountain-white-clay-by-christopher-benfey.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RED BRICK, BLACK MOUNTAIN, WHITE CLAY: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_246" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Christopher Benfey. (Penguin Press, $25<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_247" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> Mixing memoir, family saga, travelogue and cultural history<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_248" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/books/review/books-about-conservatism-and-the-tea-party.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RULE AND RUIN<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_249" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party: From Eisenhower to the Tea Party</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_250" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Geoffrey Kabaservice. (Oxford University, $29<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_251" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> Pragmatic Republicanism was <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d66a0fa2b26d9f4fd140224620522668a3ebf8eb" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d66a0fa2b26d9f4fd140224620522668a3ebf8eb_hardier:0">hardier</span> than we remember, Kabaservice argues<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_252" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/saul-steinberg-a-biography-by-deirdre-bair.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SAUL STEINBERG: A Biography</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_253" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Deirdre Bair<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_254" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $40.)</em> A gripping and revelatory biography of the eminent cartoonist<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_255" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/shooting-victoria-by-paul-thomas-murphy.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SHOOTING VICTORIA: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_256" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Paul Thomas Murphy. (Pegasus, $35.)</em> An uninhibited and learned account of the attempts on the life of Queen Victoria, which only increased her popularity<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_257" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/books/review/short-nights-of-the-shadow-catcher-by-timothy-egan.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_258" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Timothy Egan<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_259" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28.)</em> A deft portrait of the man who made memorable photographs of American Indians<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_260" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/books/review/the-social-conquest-of-earth-by-edward-o-wilson.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH</strong><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_261" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> </a><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Edward O. Wilson. (Norton, $27.95<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_262" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="35cbf4c3cc203bc58ecd5be121ef22dad76c0c5a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_35cbf4c3cc203bc58ecd5be121ef22dad76c0c5a_):0">)</span></em>The evolutionary biologist explores the strange kinship between humans and some insects<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_263" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/books/review/sometimes-there-is-a-void-memoirs-of-an-outsider-by-zakes-mda-book-review.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SOMETIMES THERE IS A VOID: Memoirs of an Outsider</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_264" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Zakes Mda. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $35<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_265" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>)</em> The South African novelist and playwright absorbingly illuminates his wide, worldly life<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_266" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/books/review/spillover-by-david-quammen.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SPILLOVER: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_267" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By David Quammen. (Norton, $28<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_268" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b>95.)</em> Quammen’s meaty, sprawling book chronicles his globe-trotting scientific adventures and warns against animal microbes spilling over into people<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_269" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/review/the-taste-of-war-by-lizzie-collingham.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1f0909; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE TASTE OF WAR: World War II and the Battle for Food</strong> </a><b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_270" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b> <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Lizzie Collingham. (Penguin Press, $36.)</em> Collingham argues that food needs contributed to the war’s origins, strategy, outcome and aftermath<b class="speechFragmentSeparator" id="speechFragmentSeparator__1_271" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b></div>
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<span class="GingerNoCheckEnd"></span><span class="GingerNoCheckEnd"></span>Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-12915479810119466462012-12-07T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-07T00:00:00.093+08:00Ating Pinas: 146 Marcos paintings still missing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="4b039d3603add6e4c39cf0bdca124aea9505a90a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_4b039d3603add6e4c39cf0bdca124aea9505a90a_Ating:0">Ating</span> Pinas (Our Philippines) is a regular series on this site. It is about anything and everything Filipino; featuring uplifting articles that inspire national pride as well as sobering essays to spur participation towards <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d032ca9adb601dba934a739e5c1c813a2ccb246c" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d032ca9adb601dba934a739e5c1c813a2ccb246c_positive:0">positive</span> change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">According to the Presidential
Commission </span><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="7f6864fc660d2d00a5aeeafb313469d181897aa0" grtype="null" id="GRmark_7f6864fc660d2d00a5aeeafb313469d181897aa0_on:0" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Good Government (PCGG), a total of 146 paintings by Picasso, Van
Gogh and other masters, which were allegedly bought with stolen funds by </span><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="6883836adfe949a871355dfb431126752c5eef57" grtype="null" id="GRmark_6883836adfe949a871355dfb431126752c5eef57_the:0" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
</span><span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="2ead732e48d6b85a6f5826b82fbf7524ea86824a" grtype="null" id="GRmark_2ead732e48d6b85a6f5826b82fbf7524ea86824a_late:0" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">late</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> dictator Ferdinand Marcos, remain missing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Marcos distributed his priceless
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="eb49f459cda0924468a4641014943f1c630db171" grtype="null" id="GRmark_eb49f459cda0924468a4641014943f1c630db171_collection:0">collection</span> of at least 300 artworks to cronies when his regime crumbled in
1986. Only about half have been recovered by Manila, said Andres Bautista,
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="775055c801d7c5f34e88d8c872b4d0ae80be8f2b" grtype="null" id="GRmark_775055c801d7c5f34e88d8c872b4d0ae80be8f2b_chair:0">chair</span> of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The Marcoses were art aficionados and
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="790679e598136d68db8cee633dd261163d930042" grtype="null" id="GRmark_790679e598136d68db8cee633dd261163d930042_they:0">they</span> spent millions of dollars buying these paintings,” Bautista said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The 146 paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="f6050b93d66f55b6c99b4174b9be2564b9e237e3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_f6050b93d66f55b6c99b4174b9be2564b9e237e3_and:0">and</span> other masters like Renoir, Rembrandt and Cézanne “could be anywhere,” he
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The PCGG drew up the list of missing
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="1d1f913f68629a322cce5b61bb94d0956526803d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_1d1f913f68629a322cce5b61bb94d0956526803d_paintings:0">paintings</span> from art gallery receipts and shipment records left behind by <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="1d1f913f68629a322cce5b61bb94d0956526803d" grtype="null" id="GRmark_1d1f913f68629a322cce5b61bb94d0956526803d_the:1">the</span>
Marcos family, Bautista told Agence France-Presse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Vilma Bautista, the former personal
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="792719e791626cd86337c8adf5917aeb1c3156ce" grtype="null" id="GRmark_792719e791626cd86337c8adf5917aeb1c3156ce_secretary:0">secretary</span> to <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="792719e791626cd86337c8adf5917aeb1c3156ce" grtype="null" id="GRmark_792719e791626cd86337c8adf5917aeb1c3156ce_Marcos’ widow:1">Marcos’ widow</span>, Imelda, along with two nephews, was indicted in New
York last week over an alleged conspiracy to sell a Monet that had belonged to
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Monet, “Le Bassin <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="6dd6732f47189b2b2c3bb8c870ed59270ac1b2f7" grtype="null" id="GRmark_6dd6732f47189b2b2c3bb8c870ed59270ac1b2f7_aux:0">aux</span> Nymphéas,” and three other paintings seized by US authorities from Bautista were on the Philippines’ missing list, said Andres Bautista, who is not related to the accused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="cba9fac99f061e1ff4fc02e9bca08da35b94cc9f" grtype="null" id="GRmark_cba9fac99f061e1ff4fc02e9bca08da35b94cc9f_to:0">to</span> the Manhattan district attorney’s office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The PCGG’s Bautista said he had met
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="d5b3182363bb846b241e0b09dcf515827b6d7075" grtype="null" id="GRmark_d5b3182363bb846b241e0b09dcf515827b6d7075_the:0">the</span> New York prosecutors to ask for the return of the four paintings to Manila.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Now, whether we bring them back here
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The other artworks from the Marcos
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="a156eb4de1f1c2a8765d3738f7143a0dee994fce" grtype="null" id="GRmark_a156eb4de1f1c2a8765d3738f7143a0dee994fce_collection:0">collection</span> that had already been recovered by the Philippine government were
<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="b7090334c540fc6ed60de68d82f2f6d528044aa5" grtype="null" id="GRmark_b7090334c540fc6ed60de68d82f2f6d528044aa5_either:0">either</span> sold or displayed in local institutions or museums, according to the
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The PCGG was formed in 1986 to recover
Marcos’ embezzled fortune believed to be worth up to $10 billion, after the
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-91162567909507614952012-12-06T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-06T00:00:06.272+08:00Live your truth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>Do not <span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="3062a4ddd819cc95c5296ddad6aca6cd4cec5d77" grtype="null" id="GRmark_3062a4ddd819cc95c5296ddad6aca6cd4cec5d77_live:0">live</span> the truth of others. Ralph Waldo Emerson says, “The Power in you is new in Nature.” Dare to take your own
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-87636382773728067782012-12-05T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-05T00:00:03.833+08:00The Fall of Giants: Sony, Panasonic, and Sharp <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As of late, Sony's debt was downgraded
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-49592744714006830292012-12-04T00:00:00.001+08:002012-12-04T00:00:05.076+08:00While swaying on a hammock: Tragic story of the lottery’s unluckiest winners<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thus, the Hills may avoid yet becoming another tragic story like those </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">of past lotto winners who merely squandered away </span><span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="their:1" grmarkguid="e833de17-dd44-4740-a01d-2f06c7c56ff9" gruiphraseguid="c4842bf3-5e3b-4918-bd19-ba7c3413ac24" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">their</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Time has an intriguing article on this by Terri Pous, “The Tragic Stories of the Lottery’s Unluckiest Winners.”
And in this edition of <b>While swaying <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="on:0" grmarkguid="8aadf516-83f7-415f-a354-7b77d05c6056" gruiphraseguid="bf0d5875-92a8-4b86-ab76-6dcd9e9098f2">on</span> a hammock,</b> we’ll feature one personality – Andrew “Jack” Whittaker who took <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="merely:1" grmarkguid="0c11ec2a-0ccf-4c3d-90ba-4fcef49883ef" gruiphraseguid="bf0d5875-92a8-4b86-ab76-6dcd9e9098f2">merely</span> four years to lose all his winnings of $315 million.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Andrew Whittaker may have been the wealthiest man ever to win a major lottery jackpot. When the 55-year-old West Virginia construction company president won a $315 million Powerball jackpot in December 2002 — at the time, the largest jackpot ever won by a single ticket — he was already worth some $17 million. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And Whittaker knew to distribute his new mega-wealth, pledging to give 10 percent of his fortune to Christian charities, donating $14 million to his Jack Whittaker Foundation, and even giving a $123,000 house, a new Dodge Ram Truck, and $50,000 in cash to the woman who worked at the convenience store where he had purchased his winning ticket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">But even Whittaker couldn’t escape <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="his:0" grmarkguid="2948c7a1-0e8a-4125-9c4f-203f2a851e40" gruiphraseguid="f2c387bd-35af-4a7d-b531-a0378fccb281">his</span>
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$545,000 from his car in a West Virginia strip club parking lot while he was
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And a string of personal tragedies followed. On Sept. 17, 2004, his
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Caesars Atlantic City casino for bouncing $1.5 million worth of checks to cover
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read about the other unlucky winners <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/28/500-million-powerball-jackpot-the-tragic-stories-of-the-lotterys-unluckiest-winners/#ixzz2DYDVwSY0" target="_blank">here.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The New York Times: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/opinion/nocera-the-bad-luck-of-winning.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121201" target="_blank">The Bad Luck of Winning</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Onion: <a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/powerball-winners-already-divorced-bankrupt,30553/?ref=auto" target="_blank">Powerball winners <span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="alreadydivorced:0" grmarkguid="b8ede013-8db3-46c6-a46d-a92981b3827e" gruiphraseguid="f783068f-3acb-4334-91a8-3ec368d8de7c">alreadydivorced</span>, bankrupt</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I very much appreciate my articles and
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-6168357143742932712012-12-03T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-03T00:00:03.421+08:00Life of Taho Vendors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I once bought taho from a vendor in Quezon City, and while enjoying it, we talked about the business he’s in. His name was Jun. He was born in Pangasinan, moved to Manila when still in his young teens, and hasn’t gone back to visit his hometown since then. He has been a taho vendor for a couple of years when we met. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He told me that those aluminum canisters cost him about three thousand pesos. His daily expenses for the supply of taho is about eight hundred pesos a day from which he earns an average profit of three hundred pesos. He starts his day at three o’clock in the morning and heads over to Blumentritt to get his usual supplies – taho (made of fresh soft/silken tofu),</span> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">arnibal (brown sugar and vanilla syrup), and pearl sago (similar to pearl tapioca). From Blumentritt, he would walk to his regular spot on Banawe Street near the Department of Labor building. He often sells out his taho by noontime and would head home by then. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As a single man leading a somewhat
austere life, he claims he does all right with his daily earnings and even able
to save a couple of bucks each day. His secret: he doesn’t engage in frivolous
nighttime drinking bouts as some of his friends do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">But a more fascinating story of a taho vendor done well is that of Nelson Dugayo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nelson is the proud owner of the highly popular taho stall located at the Concourse Level of the Power Plant Mall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">According to the Power Plant Mall <a href="http://www.powerplantmall.com/archive_article.php?id=24" target="_blank">article</a>, Nelson started selling taho at the age of 18. He and his brother-in-law started their little business with a small investment, sourcing out their taho from a distributor, then peddling their ware in the streets of Makati every day, rain or shine, all year long. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nelson plied the JP Rizal route, but found himself gravitating more and more to the Power Plant Mall area. “It was my favorite spot and I grew some loyal customers there. For two years I sold taho at the corner of Waterfront Drive and J.P. Rizal. Then one day an official of the mall invited me to sell my taho at a food event at the Concourse. Life has never been the same since,” Nelson recounts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The man bought taho from Nelson and asked him if his taho business was doing well. He answered, ‘Ok na ok po!’ Then he surprised Nelson by inviting him to his office to talk about his business. He couldn’t believe it. He had no idea that the man he was talking to was Mr. Nestor Padilla, the president of Rockwell himself. “He really changed my life,” Nelson said, almost wistfully. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Then, he used to work day and night so he could provide, no matter how simply, for his wife and two kids. “There were times when I would stay awake for 48 hours, selling taho in the morning, then working as a part-time waiter for a catering service at night. It was very exhausting but I needed to do it. Making good use of your time is very important for business and your personal life.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now Nelson still sells taho, but he already has employees working under him. He owns a permanent stall in the mall which has become a certified mall attraction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“I did not think that my taho would become such a big hit. I didn’t think rich people would like it. Then the buyers came, one after the other. Even foreigners would buy my taho. Parents and their children would fall in line for my taho too. My customers tell me they are glad to find a magtataho inside the mall because it used to be their favorite snack when they were kids, and now, they also want their kids to experience it as well.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nelson says there is nothing really extra-special about his product. “It’s the same taho that we all love and continue to crave for now and then. My product is really ordinary, but I make it special by preparing it with so much passion and discipline.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Time is very important in the taho business,” Nelson explains. “The product has a short shelf life -- five to six hours and that’s it. You must sell it within that time because after that it will begin to spoil. You also have to be very, very gentle with it. Taho breaks easily and you can’t sell it anymore if it’s broken up. I make it a point to teach the right way to handle taho to my employees.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Business is good, Nelson admits. Now he has taken in his siblings to assist him in the business because he no longer buys taho from a distributor. He prepares and cooks the taho himself because his earnings have allowed him to buy his own grinding machine for the soybeans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">His earnings have gone up from his
usual Php 400-700 daily to the Php 2,300 he earns daily per container. There
are days when he is able to sell up to 3 containers, which enables him to earn
almost Php 7,000 on good days. He is able to afford life’s good things -- like
a washing machine and a personal computer for his family, which he uses a lot
to prepare the monthly reports that he submits to the Retail office of the
mall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now 22, Nelson remains humble and
still describes his life as simple. What is important to him right now, he
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>Therefore, since we are receiving a
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Tito Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00023767024183685430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937318913191576529.post-19407320270391261522012-12-01T00:00:00.000+08:002012-12-01T00:00:06.791+08:00Welcoming December<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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