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Book Review - Four Fish - By Paul Greenberg
Even as Paul Greenberg lays out the grim and complicated facts about the ravaging of our seas, he manages to sound some hopeful notes about the ultimate fate of fish.

Book Review - Long for This World - The Strange Science of Immortality - By J...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer examines the scientific battle against aging through the bizzare career of the English gerontologist Aubrey de Grey.

Book Review - The Sisters From Hardscrabble Bay - By Beverly Jensen
In Beverly Jensen?s posthumous novel-in-stories, two sisters escape rural poverty and make their way in the world.

Book Review - When London Was Capital of America - By Julie Flavell
A chapter of London?s ? and North America?s ? history: Before the Revolution, the metropolis was a magnet for colonists from across the Atlantic.

Book Review - The Surf Guru - By Doug Dorst
In these testosterone-rich yarns, Doug Dorst toys with structure and convention while investigating the quirks and offbeat occupations of his motley cast.

Book Review - Memory Wall - By Anthony Doerr
These strange, beautiful tales all ask: What, if anything, will be preserved from time?s depredations?

Book Review - Red Hook Road - By Ayelet Waldman
Joy and tragedy bring two families together in unexpected ways in Ayelet Waldman?s novel.

Book Review - Brilliant - The Evolution of Artificial Light - By Jane Brox
A history of the ways people have lighted their homes and paths, and of the social changes that have resulted.

Book Review - Lives Like Loaded Guns - Emily Dickinson and Her Family?s Feuds...
A new biography of Emily Dickinson emphasizes her tumultuous family and examines eruptions emotional and poetic.

Book Review - High Financier - The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg - By Ni...
A biography of the banker Siegmund Warburg, who built his empire in London after his flight from Nazi Germany.

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