"Serious readers should be reading [Scott] Turow, because he is not just one of our best crime novelists; he is also one of our better novelists," declared writer/critic Wendy Lesser...
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Good news for fans of Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent": Rusty Sabich is back on the jobTurow, speaking to The Associated Press on Saturday at BookExpo America, said he has written about one-quarte...
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Today is Thursday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2007. There are 263 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on F...
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Barack Obama can honestly claim to have made a difference on a matter of life and death.While an Illinois state senator, Obama was key in getting the state's notorious death penalty laws changed, i...
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Picture a character like Entourage’s Ari Gold or Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko. He’s high-powered, hard-driving, arrogant, misanthropic and politically incorrect. He has a knack for ...
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Picture a character like Entourage’s Ari Gold or Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko. He’s high-powered, hard-driving, arrogant, misanthropic and politically incorrect. He has a knack for ...
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One day when Pamela Samuels-Young was 12 and growing up in Compton, she pulled a copy of Claude Brown’s “Manchild in the Promised Land” from her aunt’s bookshelf. She ...
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Here's a bit from In the Shadow of the Law, the debut novel from Kermit Roosevelt, great-great-grandson of Teddy:"Katja had never come just from sex, just from a man inside her; not once, let alone...
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