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Weaving parallels between China and India
Reuters - Whoever first thought of boiling
A reporter's love affair for farmhouse
AP - "Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan" (Princeton Architectural Press, 241 pages. $24.95), by John Roderick: The extraordinary living room on the cover of John Roderick's new book of Japanese-American love brought back a precious memory of my best days as an Associated Press correspondent in Asia and sent me digging for a 24-year-old album that includes my own first impressions of Roderick's beautiful minka.
Jefferson's final years told in new book
AP - "Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson" (Random House, 352 pages, $27), by Alan Pell Crawford: This intimate and detailed biography focuses on Thomas Jefferson from his return to Monticello, his beloved Virginia plantation, after two terms as president, to his death on the 50th anniversary of the signing of his Declaration of Independence.
'Charlatan' chronicles medical quackery
AP - "Charlatan" (Crown Publishing Group, 336 pages, $24.95), by Pope Brock: Goat testicles to restore virility. An electric hat that grows hair. Healing blue light from a "quartz ray" bulb.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
AP - 1. "Duma Key" by Stephen King (Scribner)
Great love stories for Valentine's Day
AP - "My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, From Chekhov to Munro" (HarperCollins Publishers, 587 pages, $24.95), edited by Jeffrey Eugenides: In the introduction to this remarkable collection, Jeffrey Eugenides warns readers that good love stories aren't fluffy, happy-go-lucky affairs. Instead, they "depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart."
Correction: Books-Winfrey
AP - In a Jan. 30 story about Oprah Winfrey's new book club pick, Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth," The Associated Press misstated the starting date of the Web program on the book. Winfrey and Tolle will begin teaching the book on her Web site March 3, not Feb. 4.
Buyers, not savers, caused America's deficit
FT.com - It is clear from Alan Greenspan's autobiography, The Age of Turbulence - chapter 18, "Current Accounts and Debt" - that the former Federal Reserve chairman misunderstood the causes and underestimated the consequences of the extraordinary growth in the US's current account deficit. Today's policymakers must see through his mistaken analysis and adopt policies to restore balance to the global economy.
Story told of murdered nun
AP - "The Greatest Gift" (Doubleday, 256 pages, $21.95), by Binka Le Breton: Dorothy Stang wasn't an average nun. She didn't wear a habit or retreat to a convent for pious prayer and contemplation. She rode a motorcycle over rutted dirt roads, enjoyed watching football games with a cold beer in her hand and lived for 40 years among some of Brazil's poorest people.
Doris Lessing receives Nobel prize
AP - Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing, who greeted news of her victory with the words, "I couldn't care less," received her prize Wednesday night at a champagne reception in London.
Novelist Lessing says nowhere else to go after Nobel
Reuters - Britain's Doris Lessing, too ill to
German-born author is Oprah's latest book pick
Reuters - Influential U.S. television talk
Lessing receives Nobel prize in London
AFP - British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to travel to Sweden for a presentation last month.
Boy soldier defends his book
AP - Ishmael Beah, author of a best-selling memoir about his time as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, disputes newspaper reports that he had exaggerated his war service, telling The Associated Press on Wednesday that he will "stand by" what he wrote.
Nobel award comes to London for novelist Lessing
Reuters - British novelist Doris Lessing will
James Agee's vision of book is restored
AP - "A Death in the Family" won the Pulitzer Prize a half century ago and became an American literary classic, but it was not the book James Agee wrote.
Agee's vision of book restored
AP - "A Death in the Family" won the Pulitzer Prize a half century ago and became an American literary classic, but it was not the book James Agee wrote.
6 authors on Arabic Fiction shortlist
AP - Six authors from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are on the shortlist as finalists for the first-ever International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
6 shortlisted for Arabic fiction prize
AP - Six authors from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are on the shortlist as finalists for the first-ever International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
New `Mambo Kings' novel due
AP - Oscar Hijuelos is writing a companion novel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" and also plans a memoir that will include his encounters with such musicians as Ruben Blades and Lou Reed.
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