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Confronting Tradition: A Rabbi Returns, Women Campaign, Pearl Buck Resurrected
June 23, 2011 Edna O'Brien tells 11 tales of sex, love and death, and Steve Stern romps through 20th century Jewish history. Rebecca Traister surveys how the 2008 election changed politics for women, Darin Strauss absorbs a classmate's death, and Hilary Spurling resurrects Pearl S. Buck's life and fiction.
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Happy Holidays, Voyeurs: Nancy Pearl Picks Memoirs
December 3, 2010 Librarian Nancy Pearl loves reading about other people's lives. And while an unappreciative therapist might call that a predilection toward snooping, it won't stop her from gravitating to the memoir section of the bookstore. Here, for your own vicarious pleasure, are some of her favorites.
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Lawrence Jackson went on a quest to find his late grandfather's home in Virginia.


