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article Books 5/17/13 'And the Mountains Echoed' : excerpt Back home, in Shadbagh, Pari kept underneath her pillow an old tin tea box Abdullah ... Read More »
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article Books 5/17/13 Bestsellers for the week of May 5 Publishers Weekly's list of national bestsellers powered by Nielsen BookScan for the week of May ... Read More »
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review Books 5/17/13 New novel from 'Kite Runner' author Khaled Hosseini AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, by Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, 404 pp., $28.95. ... Read More »
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article TV 5/17/13 'Breaking Bad,' 'True Blood' inspire essay collections "Breaking Bad and Philosophy: Badder Living Through Chemistry" Nineteen essays on Bryan Cranston's chemistry teacher ... Read More »
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article Books 5/16/13 Excerpt: 'Inferno' by Dan Brown Chapter 1 ... Read More »
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review Books 5/16/13 Colorful Afghan history in 'Return of a King' RETURN OF A KING: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42, by William Dalrymple. Alfred A. Knopf, ... Read More »
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article Retirement 5/16/13 Writing's no mystery for Vincent Lardo Long Island is known for its ties to literary heavyweights. Among them, Walt Whitman, F. ... Read More »
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review Books 5/15/13 Dan Brown's 'Inferno': Hot or not? INFERNO, by Dan Brown. Doubleday, 461 pp., $29.95. ... Read More »
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review Books 5/15/13 Afghan childhood recalled in 'A Fort of Nine Towers' A FORT OF NINE TOWERS: An Afghan Family Story, by Qais Akbar Omar. Farrar, Straus ... Read More »
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article Books 5/14/13 Nordic noir from Thompson & more The latest clutch of Scandinavian crime novels reminds us that the fictional detectives now apparently ... Read More »