The full title of the book is The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President. As cumbersome and ungainly as that title is, it accurately conveys both the content and the style of the book. Maybe it was the Clinton fatigue, but I had no interest in reading this book when it first came out in 2005.  Nor did I want to read or hear any more dirt about any of the candidates during the last election cycle.  So only last month did I finally pick up a...

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Let's look at more top books published and released in 2009. Brooklyn: A Novel (Colm Toibin) Set in the 1950s, Brooklyn is the story of Eilis Lacey, a 15-year-old from Enniscorthy, Ireland, who travels to the US after World War II as an immigrant. Sponsored by Father Flood, a priest who travels from Ireland to America and back to help other immigrants find jobs in New York, Eilis left her older sister and mother behind to start a new life in Brooklyn. She has luck finding a job as an employee at a high-end department store, where she meets Tony, an...

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Catch up in fiction and non-fiction books as we discuss the newest releases in books. Biographies You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs. Relive his past and present Christmas experiences. He recalls how Christmas can bring out the worst and best in every person. Fiction/Literature In A Perfect World by Laura Kasischke is a new novel about marriage and motherhood and people's choices when there seems to be no more choices left. Read More »