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Bryan Stevenson is director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery, Ala.-based organization he founded in 1989 to provide legal representation for the indigent and incarcerated. The EJI doesn\'t charge its clients but, says Stevenson, he will sometim es require them to read selected books More at orlandosentinel.com >>

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Pat and Gina Neely, the beloved husband-and-wife team and authors of the New York Times best seller Down Home with the Neelys, are all about lettin the good times roll.It takes family, friends, and ample good food, and in their new book, they share their recipes and secrets for entertaining year-round, dishing up new spins on seasonal classics, and suggesting occasions to celebrate that most of us havent thought of ourselves.Along with menus for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter Sunday, and every known h... More at randomhouse.com >>

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There are certain towns that are forever linked with the authors who lived there. Oxford, Mississippi, is Faulkner land, parts of New Orleanss Toulouse Street belong irrevocably to Tennessee Williams, and Monroeville, Alabama, is Harper Lees territory as surely as if it had been marked on the state map More at theparisreview.org >>

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Dickens is often lambasted for being sentimental, and if there’s one character \n in his oeuvre that invites a sentimental treatment it’s surely Jennie Wren. \n She’s the little disabled doll’s dressmaker who brightens the pages ofO ur \n Mutual Friend, Dickens’s last completed novel More at telegraph.co.uk >>

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QMy 14-year-old daughter is a huge fan of the Twilight books by \n Stephenie Meyer, but doesn’t know where to go from there. Any advice on \n other books that might appeal, especially those involving vampires, would be \n extremely welcome. More at telegraph.co.uk >>

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The connection between the depiction of family in literature and the real home \n lives of writers is as complicated as it is fascinating. Are writers more \n afflicted with wretched family relationships than other people? Is it \n unhappiness that makes t hem write? Or does the restless sensibility that \n underpins a writing talent make those endowed with it impossible to live \n with? More at telegraph.co.uk >>

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We are in the Mosaic Rooms in Kensington, where Adonis – who is annually \n suggested as a favourite to win the Nobel Prize for Literature – has been \n reading his poems and exhibiting his paintings. Born near the Syrian coastal \n city of Lat akia in 1930, Adonis learnt both the Koran and classical Arab \n poetry as a child before studying philosophy at Damascus University More at telegraph.co.uk >>

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It takes a baby to turn a guy into a man.Hard-won lessons of a first-time father the good, the bad, and the big-time changes.\"When I used to see a father holding a baby, I thought he was either a poor sap or else an ubermensch possessed with talents and levels of forbearance that I would never attain. Now I live on the other side. I\'m someone\'s daddy, and it\'s the best thing that ever happened to me.\"From pregnancy and childbirth through the whirlwind first year of fatherhood, Quinton Skinner shares th... More at randomhouse.com >>

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Jo the crossing sweeper is only a minor character in the sprawlingly ambitiousBleak \n House, but he lingers in the memory. In plot terms, his crucial role is \n identifying the mysterious Nemo, and taking Lady Dedlock to his grave. What \n catches at the heart is his situation in life. Homeless, with no family, he \n spends his days sweeping a path across manure-filled streets so that \n pedestrians can cross the road without soiling their shoes or dresses More at telegraph.co.uk >>

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A Journal of Ideas More at thepointmag.com >>

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Events of catastrophic magnitude leave such an indelible mark on our psyche, and as cliche as the question might sound, we cant help but ask, Where were you when...? In his remarkable novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer explor es one brave childs experience of this tragedy and his resulting incredible journey. More at everydayebook.com >>

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In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with two thousand soldiers, bound for California. At the time, the nation was hell-bent on expansion: James K. Polk had lately won the presidency by threatening England over t he borders in Oregon, while Congress had just voted, in defiance of the Mexican government, to annex Texas. After Mexico declared war on the United States, Kearnys Army of the West was sent out, carrying orders to occupy Mexican territory. When his exp... More at randomhouse.com >>

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London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations. The depths below are hot, warmer than the surface, and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, real and fictional, that dwell in darknessrats and eels, monsters and ghosts. When the Undergrounds Metropolitan Line was opened in 1864, ... More at randomhouse.com >>

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A parent is only as happy as their most miserable child. A child’s \n disappearance annihilates families and fractures communities. We need the \n body in order to mourn it, as well as to mark that a person has lived. It is \n why the names of Suzy L amplugh and Madeleine McCann continue to resonate More at telegraph.co.uk >>