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Noteworthy paperbacks
The Inventor and the Tycoon: The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, the Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball. (Anchor) At the height of his genius, Eadweard Muybridge, a British immigrant whose advancements in photography in the late 1800s gave rise to the motion picture industry, killed his wife’s lover in ...
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The Romance Reader: 'No Good Duke Goes Unpunished'
"No Good Duke Goes Unpunished" by Sarah MacLean; Avon (2013), 382 pages, $7.99 (paperback)
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Deeply rooted in the culture of California
"Trees in Paradise: A California History" by Jared Farmer; W.W. Norton (592 pages, $35)
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The Lincoln Lawyer rides again
"The Gods of Guilt" by Michael Connelly; Little, Brown (416 pages, $28)
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'The Maid's Version' recounts an explosive Depression-era mystery
"The Maid's Version" by Daniel Woodrell; Little, Brown and Company (176 pages, $27.98)
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Studying the lives of three great talents who died early
"The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts" by Nicholas Delbanco; New Harvest / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (224 pages, $25)
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'World War Z' creator takes on the Valley of Death
LOS ANGELES _ With his novel "World War Z," author Max Brooks won over a legion of readers, weaving an epic tale told from the perspective of the survivors of a global pandemic that saw the dead return to life. Now Brooks is bringing his realistic approach to fantastic storytelling to a paneled ...
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Give the gift of books this year
It's old news now: E-books have usurped the old-fashioned bound volumes of paste and paper we once knew and still love. But try telling that to your coffee table. It still cries out for that hefty, oversized tome of text and photos that proudly displays its owner's tastes and interests. A book so...
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BARRY SAUNDERS
Saunders: After wife's death, Raleigh father learns to wrangle 3 daughters
Bruce Ham lost his wife but gained 10 women who help him raise his three daughters. Now, he has written a book about his experiences about everything from braiding hair to coping with loss.
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