/entertainment/bookreviews/ en-us Copyright 2013 ArcaMax Publishing James Ross Mysteriouspress.com ISBN 978-1453296202 287 pages $14.99 Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley By my reckoning, this superb first (and only) novel by James Ross has had five lives: a first printing in hardcover by ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1327093 May/17/2013 David Rohde Viking ISBN 978-0670026449 221 pages $27.95 Reviewed by Marc Lynch In "Beyond War," David Rohde sets out to find a new path for the United States in the Middle East after a decade of war and much longer support ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1327092 May/17/2013 Margaret Webb Pressler Alpha ISBN 978-1615642243 318 pages $24.95 Reviewed by Sara Sklaroff Jim Pressler looks good for his age. Very good. "Although I'm 17 years his junior and firmly in my 40s," writes his wife, Margaret ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1327091 May/17/2013 Illah Reza Nourbakhsh MIT Univ ISBN 978-0262018623 133 pages $24.95 Reviewed by Steven Levingston, who is nonfiction editor of The Washington Post Book World. He can be reached at levingstons@washpost.com. When I'm ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1327090 May/17/2013 Audrey Niffenegger Abrams ComicArts ISBN 978-1419707261 80 pages $19.95 Reviewed by Douglas Wolk "Fairy tales have their own remorseless logic and their own rules," Audrey Niffenegger notes in her acknowledgments to this ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1327089 May/17/2013 CITIZENVILLE: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent GovernmentGavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey Penguin Press ISBN 978-1594204722 249 pages $25.95 SIMPLER: The Future of GovernmentCass R. Sunstein ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1327088 May/17/2013 Eleanor Morse Viking ISBN 978-0670026401 354 pages $27.95 Reviewed by Heather Hewett At the beginning of "White Dog Fell from the Sky," Eleanor Morse's third novel, a hearse stops. Two men slide out a coffin and a limp body...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1327087 May/17/2013 Marcia Coyle Simon & Schuster ISBN 978-1451627510 407 pages $28 Reviewed by Jeffrey Rosen As the Supreme Court prepares to decide the fate of affirmative action, voting rights and same-sex marriage by the end of June, ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1327086 May/17/2013 Kristine Barnett Random House ISBN 978-0812993370 250 pages $25 Reviewed by Maureen Corrigan A few years ago, a friend, whose child attends a school for kids with learning disabilities, tried to start a book club for ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1327085 May/17/2013 Edward Rutherfurd Doubleday ISBN 978-0385535304 809 pages $32.50 Reviewed by Rodney Welch, who is the book reviewer for the Free-Times in Columbia, S.C. Edward Rutherfurd's new historical novel, his eighth multigenerational...

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