Foreward 01/08/2010 - A book about civil rights heroine Claudette Colvin that won a National Book Award in November is one of five finalists for a new prize for young adult
Book review: Mystery woman holds sway over painter 01/08/2010 - Art, past and present, swirls through "The Swan Thieves," Elizabeth Kostova's second novel. This isn't as much set against exotic locales, or propelled forward in a race against time, as was its predecessor, the 2005 bestselling "The Historian." Yet the story clearly flows from the same imaginative pen.
Hitting the Shelves 01/08/2010 - A Fair Maiden, by Joyce Carol Oates, $22. A summer nanny in an upscale New Jersey Shore community, 15-year-old Katya Spivak is approached by wealthy 68-year-old author and artist
Book review: Auletta documents Google's search-and-destroy mission 01/08/2010 - I dare you to name a more plugged-in media and communications-technology reporter than New Yorker staff writer Ken Auletta. As comfortable interrogating a network executive as he is interviewing a software genius or bottling a human tornado like Ted Turner, Auletta builds his media-technology books the way a mason builds a wall — on a firm foundation, one brick at a time and as level as the horizon.
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