Sunday Books: coverage for August 15, 2010
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Francesca Simon talks about why her ‘Horrid Henry’ series is so popular. ‘Book are a good way to vent feelings that aren’t acceptable,’ she says.
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Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich SUNDAY Lina Lecaro: The author of “ Los Angeles’ Best Dive Bars” will present and sign her new book.
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Red Hook Road A Novel Ayelet Waldman Doubleday: 344 pp., $25.95 Ayelet Waldman is a worrier.
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Disparate themes become impediments in this gripping account of meteorologists in World War II.
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Compelling essays by someone who writes of authors, composers and artists from whom he continues to learn.
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In ‘No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments,’ Brooke Berman charts her itinerant lifestyle.
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In a cleverly subtle A-Z style, Michael Largo reveals some of the puzzling beliefs and excesses of religions, cults and spiritual movements.
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Albert Cossery explores moral questions through an absurdist filter.
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Books: The daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young details the pain she felt growing up, thinking that Young was her adoptive mother and that her father was dead.
