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<![CDATA[Review: Lovers of 'Little Women' will find much to admire in new Alcott biography]]>
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<![CDATA[In her new biography of the fiercely independent author of "Little Women," screenwriter Harriet Reisen draws a lively, engrossing portrait of Louisa May Alcott's life that will appeal to the legions of women who grew up worshiping the book.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Meghan Barr / Associated Press)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:51:10 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Review: 'Lady Queen' bio wrests forgotten female monarch from the dustbins of history]]>
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<![CDATA[If your tastes run to medieval European politics, then nothing is better than a good meaty biography of royal intrigue and murder. Unfortunately, despite Nancy Goldstone's hard work, the heroine, Joanna I of Naples, only appears in flashes in "The Lady Queen.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Tish Wells  / McClatchy Newspapers)]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:13:10 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Review: Chabon's 'Manhood' a worthy addition to the fatherhood-memoir genre]]>
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<![CDATA[The singular experience of becoming a father can change everything. This seems to include &mdash; for literary papas &mdash; what you want to write about.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Henry C. Jackson / Associated Press)]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:26:57 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[It's a Mystery: It takes great characters to make a decent plot shine]]>
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<![CDATA[If you've got great characters, you can be forgiven a lot. Interesting people make up for some plot weaknesses, but the best writers don't stint on either character or plot.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Roberta Alexander / Contra Costa Times contributor)]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:22:50 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Review: Pamuk's masterful 'Museum' puts erotic obsession on display]]>
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<![CDATA[Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk's "The Museum of Innocence" is essentially a novel of erotic obsession and of love and loves lost, remembered, recovered and then lost (again) to all but recollection.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Tim Rutten  / Los Angeles Times)]]>
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<![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:23:07 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Book 'em, Kamala -- S.F. District Attorney Harris adds author to list of credits]]>
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<![CDATA['Smart on Crime' sums up her strategies for making us safer]]>
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<![CDATA[mraley@bayareanewsgroup.com (Malaika Fraley / Contra Costa Times)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:21 -0600]]>
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<![CDATA[Northern California bestsellers, week ending Oct. 25]]>
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<![CDATA[Fiction1. "The Lost Symbol," by Dan Brown    2. "The Help," by Kathryn Stockett3. "Nine Dragons," by Michael Connelly    4. "The Children's Book," by A.]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:51:16 -0600]]>
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<![CDATA[Worlds Beyond: 'Windup' wraps up huge eco-industrial catastrophe in one terrifying package]]>
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<![CDATA[PAOLO BACIGALUPI is a committed environmentalist, and as such, he looks upon humanity's wreckage of the planet with a jaundiced eye. Thus it follows that "The Windup Girl" (Night Shade Books, $24.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Clay Kallam / Contra Costa Times correspondent)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:51:01 -0600]]>
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