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Oates harvests fresh delights from Garden ****
But the reworked novel is not the first case of literary history being rewritten
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Oprah picks classic to restart book club *
Oprah Winfrey was sitting under an oak tree in California last summer, reading John Steinbeck's East of Eden and loving it, when she realized that just telling a few friends about it wouldn't do.
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Hammond World Travel Atlas (Keyes review) ****
Hammond's clever cartographers have come up with a coffee-table tome that marries detailed maps with small photographs illustrating 14 or so sites worth seeing on each area depicted.
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Thunderstruck (Keyes review) **
"Disappointed" was the chief word John Keyes had for this promising new volume from Seattle's Eric Larson. Two stars out of five.
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U.S. history book prize awarded to Canadians *
A U.S. children's book prize intended to celebrate American history has been won by a pair of Canadians. Author Peter Busby of Vancouver and illustrator David Craig of Mississauga, Ont., received the $10,000 (U.S.) prize for their book First to Fly: How Wilbur & Orville Wright Invented the Airplane.
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