/entertainment/bookreviews/ en-us Copyright 2012 ArcaMax Publishing John Green Dutton ISBN 978-0525478812 NA pages $17.99 Reviewed by Mary Quattlebaum Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters are very different: She's a sensitive poetry aficionado; he's a hunky ex-basketball player. But their ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1092360 Feb/03/2012 Shane W. Evans Roaring Brook ISBN 978-1596435391 NA pages $16.99 Reviewed by Kristi Jemtegaard With this companion to last year's "Underground," Shane W. Evans brackets a century of African-American history from pre-Civil ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1092359 Feb/03/2012 Cynthia Grady. Illustrated by Michele Wood Eerdmans ISBN 978-0802853868 NA pages $17 Reviewed by Abby McGanney Nolan The role of quilts in slavery, particularly as signals in the Underground Railroad, is an ongoing debate ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1092358 Feb/03/2012 Sam Sommers RiverheadBooks ISBN 978-1594488184 290 pages $25.95 Reviewed by Rachel Newcomb Most of us consider ourselves to be objective, consistent people who make decisions that reflect our core principles, no matter what...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1092357 Feb/03/2012 Gil Scott-Heron Grove ISBN 978-0802129017 321 pages $25 Reviewed by Adam Langer Close watchers of the career of Gil Scott-Heron, who died last year at 62, might approach his posthumous memoir, "The Last Holiday," with ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1092356 Feb/03/2012 John Matteson Norton ISBN 978-0393068054 510 pages $32.95 Reviewed by Joanna Scutts In "The Lives of Margaret Fuller," the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott, John Matteson ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1092355 Feb/03/2012 THE REAL ELIZABETH: An Intimate Portrait of QueenAndrew Marr Henry Holt ISBN 978-0805094169 349 pages $32 ELIZABETH THE QUEEN: The Life of a Modern MonarchSally Bedell Smith Random House ISBN 978-...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1092354 Feb/03/2012 RULE AND RUIN: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea PartyGeoffrey Kabaservice Oxford Univ ISBN 978-0199768400 482 pages $29.95 THE TEA PARTY AND THE REMAKING ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1092353 Feb/03/2012 Pico Iyer Knopf ISBN 978-0307267610 242 pages $25.95 Reviewed by Justin Moyer ? Artists are haunted by their influences. Picasso competed with Matisse, Jimi Hendrix tried to best Little Richard, and, after 50-plus books, ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1092352 Feb/03/2012 Morris P. Fiorina with and Samuel J. Abrams Univ. of Oklahoma ISBN 978-0806142289 24972 pages $24.95 Reviewed by Thomas Byrne Edsall Are voters as polarized as their elected officials? The question, which has serious ...

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