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Paperback nonfiction bestsellers
1. Freakonomics By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Harper. 2....
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Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Open
By Andre Agassi. Knopf.
2. Eating Animals
By Jonathan Safran Foer. Little, Brown.
3. What the Dog Saw
By Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown.
4. When the Game Was Ours
By Larry Bird and Earvin Johnson. Houghton Mifflin.
5. True Compass
By Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve.
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Lacuna
By Barbara Kingsolver. Harper.
2. The Help
By Kathryn Stockett. Putnam.
3. The Lost Symbol
By Dan Brown. Doubleday.
4. Under the Dome
By Stephen King. Scribner.
5. Wolf Hall
By Hilary Mantel. Henry Holt.
G Force | Mo Lotman
Harvard Square: an illustrated history in food
Mo Lotman's illustrated book shows an area in which continuity and change go together like ivy and brick.
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'Mother' starts strong but leaves the reader unbelieving
Every great whodunit has the ability to elicit something like "Of course, that's who did it and of course, that's why and how he or she did it." There are no "of courses" in "The Wrong Mother."
THREE TO SEE Harvard center salutes ACT UP in New York during the ’80s AIDS crisis (By Hannah Martin, Globe Correspondent)
BOOK REVIEW Ancient Rome’s intrigue comes to life in ‘Cleopatra’s Daughter’ (By Lylah M. Alphonse, Globe Staff)
Short Takes (By Barbara Fisher, Globe Correspondent)
A fresh view of Abigail Adams (By Paul C. Nagel, Globe Correspondent)
A self-righteous, overprotective doctor splinters family and friends (By David Thoreen, Globe Correspondent)
This history of jazz is more a primer on how to listen to it (By Steve Greenlee, Globe Staff)
Solid attributes but not quite characters (By Richard Eder, Globe Correspondent)
Author signings and readings in Greater Boston, Nov. 22-28 (By Judith Maas, Boston Globe)
BOOK REVIEW From a man’s mind come a girl’s thoughts in ‘Mathilda Savitch’ (By Karen Campbell, Globe Correspondent)
Book Review ‘Seven Days of Rage’ follows the trail of the ‘Craigslist killer’ (By Chuck Leddy, Boston Globe)
Critic's Notebook Sarah Palin leads her own charge into the reality spotlight (By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff)
Matters of Faith At Montrose School, in BC grad’s book, women express faith in Opus Dei (By Erica Noonan, Globe Staff)
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