/entertainment/bookreviews/ en-us Copyright 2012 ArcaMax Publishing Lionel Shriver Harper ISBN 978-0062103321 373 pages $26.99 Reviewed by Fiona Zublin Not many people knew who Lionel Shriver was in 1998. That's when she wrote "The New Republic," a novel about journalists and terrorism. ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1146234 May/18/2012 Heather Poole William Morrow ISBN 978-0061986468 262 pages $14.99 Reviewed by Lisa Bonos When Heather Poole became a flight attendant right out of college in the 1990s, she had no illusions of its being a glamorous ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1146233 May/18/2012 Various Various ISBN N.A. N.A. pages $N.A. Reviewed by James Norton The American discourse on narcotics has always been more complex than "Just say no," but in recent years it has reached new depths of murkiness. Support ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1146232 May/18/2012 Rob Miech Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s ISBN 978-1250001450 356 pages $26.99 Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley In the fall of 2009, the Harper family of Las Vegas took a step that within less than a year proved of immense ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1146231 May/18/2012 Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac PublicAffairs ISBN 978-1586488291 270304 pages $28.99 Reviewed by David Scheffer As a legal scholar and practitioner, I have long examined ethnicity through the prism of international ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1146230 May/18/2012 Michael Lanza Beacon ISBN 978-0807001196 197 pages $24.95 Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle Michael Lanza begins this account of family camping by sketching the new - but not improved - look that some national parks will take on ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1146229 May/18/2012 POWER AND CONSTRAINT: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11Jack Goldsmith Norton ISBN 978-0393081336 311 pages $26.95 DEMOCRACY'S BLAMELESS LEADERS: From Dresden to Abu Ghraib, How Leaders Evade Accountability for Abuse, ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1146228 May/18/2012 Timothy M. Gay NAL Caliber ISBN 978-0451236883 508 pages $26.95 Reviewed by Robert MacNeil The cause of 60 million deaths, World War II remains the greatest cataclysm the human species has yet inflicted on itself: an ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1146227 May/18/2012 Katherine Frank Pegasus ISBN 978-1605983349 338 pages $27.95 Reviewed by Joanna Scutts The wrecking of a vessel on a remote island, from "The Odyssey" to "The Tempest" to "Lost," is an evergreen beginning for stories about ...

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]]> http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-1146226 May/18/2012 Victor Cha Ecco ISBN 978-0061998508 530 pages $29.99 Reviewed by Krys Lee Victor Cha can't easily forget the desolation he encountered on his first visit to North Korea. "As the plane taxied on the tarmac, there was no ...

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