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Book list: Kate White's 6 favorite books
feature The editor of "Cosmopolitan" magazine — and best-selling author behind the new thriller "Hush" (Harper) — lists the books that affected her the most
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Book of the week: The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind by Barbara Strauch
feature Science is revising its estimate of the aging brain. Younger brains may be better at absorbing new information, says the author, but overall peak performance seems to arrive after 40.
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Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Manhunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
feature Sides’ latest book is an “impossible-to-put-down” account of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Author of the week: Jillian Lauren
feature Some Girls, Lauren’s memoir about serving in a prince’s harem with 40 other beauties, contains some surprising and original psychological insights.
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The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong by David Shenk
feature Shenk shreds the notion that genes provide the “blueprint” for the person each of us becomes and explains how environmental factors strongly affect the way genes express themselves.
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Book of the week: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
feature Former novelist David Shields argues that literature must change or it will shrivel to irrelevance.
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Also of interest ... experiments in living
feature The Sabbath World by Judith Shulevitz; So Much for That by Lionel Shriver; Dog Boy by Eva Hornung; The Husbands and Wives Club by Laurie Abraham
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Author of the week: E.O. Wilson
feature With Anthill, the renowned biologist, Harvard professor emeritus, and two-time Pulitzer winner has taken a foray into fiction.
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Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelley
feature “A Kitty Kelley biography of Oprah Winfrey is one of those King Kong vs. Godzilla events in celebrity culture,” said Lauren Collins in The New Yorker.
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Book of the week: Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol
feature Shesol’s lively account of President Roosevelt’s failed attempt to add up to six seats to the U.S. Supreme Court is “splendid to read.”
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Also of interest ... in new titles on Mark Twain
feature Mark Twain: Man in White by Michael Shelden; Mark Twain’s Other Woman by Laura Skandera Trombley; Mark Twain by Jerome Loving; Lighting Out for the Territory by Roy Morris Jr.
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Author of the week: Manny Howard
feature Manny Howard's effort to feed his family from a patch of earth in his backyard in Brooklyn, N.Y., began as a stunt to poke fun at the local-foods movement.
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Book of the week: The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul Davies
feature Astrobiologist Paul Davies is “an interesting thinker about nearly every aspect” of the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard Clarke and Robert Knake
feature Clarke says the Pentagon raised the stakes on cyber war a few years ago, when it began investing heavily in cyber-offensive capabilities.
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