Hitchen’s esophageal cancer inevitably throws a shadow over this spirited, provocative, prodigiously witty collection.
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Dec 292011
NPR Book Summary
17th in the Scudder series. When a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins as per the dictates of Alcoholics Anonymous, Matthew Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to derail his own sobriety. Best mystery of the year according to NPR.
Dec 292011
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Eleventh book in this series. Investigating a rumor about new paintings by a famous contemporary Chinese artist who has been dead for 20 years, private investigator Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, discover that a new client is not who he claims to be.
Dec 292011
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Traces the history of the CIA from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the organization for its record, its inability to understand world affairs, the violence it has unleashed, and its undermining of American politics.
Dec 292011
Autobiography of how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust.
Dec 292011
NPR Book Summary
Follows young Jozef Vinich as he struggles to survive the brutal conditions on the Southern Front of World War I. Nominated for National Book Award.