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Submitted by Bethanne on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 8:19am 
September's Top 10 Reads
For many of us in the Western world, September is month that spells a return to school and work after summer weeks of sun and holiday. Sobering, yes -- but just like the morning after New Year's Eve, this sort of wake-up call often involves new resolve.
Why not resolve, this autumn, to read just a little bit more than you did last year? We've got quite a panoply of titles for you this month, from the much-vaunted novel "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen to a lesser known but well praised nonfiction read called "The Tiger" by John Vaillant.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 7:14am A Conversation with Kenneth C. Davis
"What more important story is there than people killing other people in the name of religion?"
When Kenneth C. Davis, author of the celebrated "Don't Know Much" books (including "Don't Know Much About History," the 20th-anniversary volume of which will be released later this year), says this during our interview, he isn't talking about any of the occasions that might normally come to mind when you hear "people killing other people in the name of religion." He's talking about the massacre of French Huguenot (Protestant) sailors by a Spanish military commander that took place in Florida 40 years before the Mayflower and its Puritan passengers ever reached American soil.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 10:54am 
August's Top 10 Reads
Traditionally, August is publishing's sleepiest month, the doldrums in which nothing gets done and everyone is off in the Hamptons and there's nothing good to read.
Not so in 2010! I had a really tough time narrowing down this month's pile of galleys to these 10 books. While I certainly wouldn't have wound up with a Top 100, I could certainly have had a Top 25 list.
However, that would miss the point of creating this list, which is to select the strongest collection of books for our demographic. We don't want all of the books to be the same, yet we want each one to be among the best of its kind. That's why I'm listing them alphabetically by author name; this is not a ranking. It's a collection of books that are excellent.
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In reply to Read This, Not That: "Her Fearful Symmetry" versus "The Graveyard Book", natasha wrote:
I too loved this book and couldn't put it down (...) (...).. UNTIL the switch!! (...).and i had so hoped (...)
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In reply to Read This, Not That: "Her Fearful Symmetry" versus "The Graveyard Book", Anonymous wrote:
I could not agree more that The Graveyard Book is better worth the time than Her Fearful (...)
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In reply to Giveaway: Fiction Grab Bag, Stephanie P wrote:
This summer I want to get to John Green's Looking for Alaska and a book called Garden Spells.
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