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Piece Of Cake?: Happy Marriage, Vampire Vengeance, Global Warming

April 20, 2011 • Novelists Aimee Bender and Adam Ross both use food as a key to the nuances of family and marriage, while historian Alison Weir and comic writer Seth Grahame-Smith rip some bodices. In nonfiction, Jeff Goodell explores the controversy over geoengineering as a solution to climate change.

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'Mr. Peanut': Dysfunctional Marriage In A Nutshell

June 18, 2010 • Years ago, writer Adam Ross' father told him a disturbing story involving a morbidly obese second cousin and a deadly peanut. Now, Ross has transformed that tale into a dark, debut novel, Mr. Peanut, which dramatizes the case of a man who may or may not have killed his wife via legume.

'Mr. Peanut': Dysfunctional Marriage In A Nutshell

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