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Published May 20th, 2013 - 5:12AM
Time to stock your shelves with a new cookbook or two. The James Beard Foundation announced its winners May 3 for its annual competition. The International Association of Culinary Professionals also announced their winners recently. Note that there are several overlapping winners from both groups, a sure sign of a must-have for your library.
Published May 19th, 2013 - 1:00AM
Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
Published May 19th, 2013 - 1:00AM
Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
Published May 15th, 2013 - 12:44PM
It may be too soon to call Facebook Home a flop.
Published May 15th, 2013 - 9:54AM
"The Wyoming Cowboy" by Rebecca Winters; Harlequin ($5.50, paperback)
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:14AM
The shelves in the romance section of bookstores are crowded with tales of former or active Navy SEALs and other special operation forces.
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:14AM
I suspect my children will want to see me throw myself on my husband's funeral pyre, the better to tie up all the loose ends.
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:14AM
When researchers from England's University of Reading recently announced they had discovered 23 "ultraconserved" words - words, that is, which appear to have come down from an ancestral language 15,000 years old - I couldn't help thinking of John D'Agata and his 2010 book "About a Mountain."
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:14AM
"The Kings and Queens of Roam" by Daniel Wallace; Touchstone ($24)
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:14AM
"The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II" by Denise Kiernan; Touchstone Books ($27)
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:14AM
"Lucky Bastard" by Deborah Coonts; Forge ($25.99)
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:14AM
When last we saw Walter Mosley's detective Easy Rawlins, he had just lost control of a car he was driving on the Pacific Coast Highway north of Malibu. This was in the closing pages of the 11th (and apparently final) Rawlins book, "Blonde Faith," published in 2007. "The back of my car hit something hard," Easy tells us, "a boulder no doubt. Something clenched down on my left foot and pain lanced up my leg. I ignored this, though, realizing that in a few seconds, I'd be dead."
Published May 15th, 2013 - 5:14AM
"Midnight's Children" is Salman Rushdie's sweeping, multigenerational story of the birth of independent India and the life of the big-nosed, big-hearted protagonist, Saleem Sinai.
Published May 13th, 2013 - 5:11AM
If you're not applying for a loan or a credit card, does your credit history really matter?
Published May 12th, 2013 - 7:21AM
Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:


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