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Michael Parker
Algonquin
ISBN 978-1565126824
261 pages
$23.95
Reviewed by Ron Charles, The Washington Post's fiction editor
Aaron Burr, our third vice president, would have felt nothing but respect for the Tiger Mom's arduous parenting methods. At a time when most girls received little formal education, Burr devoted himself to training his precocious ...
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Anuradha Roy
Free Press
ISBN 978-1451608625
319 pages
$14
Reviewed by Marie Arana, a writer at large for The Washington Post and the author of "Cellophane" and "American Chica"
Every once in a great while, a novel comes along to remind you why you rummage through shelves in the first place. Why you peck like a magpie past the bright glitter of publishers' ...
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S'MOTHER: The Story of a Man, His Mom, and the Thousands of Altogether Insane Letters She's Mailed Him Adam Chester
Abrams Image
ISBN 978-0810996458
170 pages
$15.95
MY MOM: Style Icon Piper Weiss
Chronicle Books
ISBN 978-0811878814
155 pages
$18.95
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Jennet Conant
Simon & Schuster
ISBN 978-1439163528
395 pages
$28
Reviewed by T.J. Stiles
Julia Child, a spy? Though hardly a revelation (Child herself wrote about her secret-agent career), it's one of those pairings that boggle the mind, like the fact that Richard Nixon composed for the piano or that Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller. A gangly six-feet-...
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