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With many of our wings still clipped by Covid-19 this year, we needed to travel vicariously through these adventurous reads
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Launched 40 years ago, Alvin Schwartz's spooky series pitted school administrators against PTO members pleading to ban the books
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You can play the ukulele, learn photography or record a song in a top-flight studio. You can also check out a book
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The author of a new biography shines a humane light on the monarch despised by the colonists
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Discover the author’s favorite places—as the 25th James Bond movie hits theaters
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Author Ian Fleming named his 007 after an influential ornithologist
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Written in wartime New York City, the children’s book brings out the small explorer in everyone
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A new book argues that more than emergency unpreparedness and locked doors led to the deaths of 25 workers in the chicken factory blaze
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Our city-by-city breakdown uncovered some surprises
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Surprising, inspiring and outstanding titles for youngsters and the grownups that read to them
By Alistair Cooke, Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.00
The untold story of those who survived the great American Dust Bowl
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The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World, by Nicholas A. Basbanes
A 1,000-mile odyssey across Mongolia on horseback
Two courageous pioneers showed how a fearsome scourge could be defeated
Henry Kissinger's new book revisits America's troubled extrication from Indochina
Smithsonian Notable Books for Children 2002
Book Reviews
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Dragon's drool, frog's glands and shark's stomachs have all been recruited for the fight against drug-resistant bacteria
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