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Britain's Prince Charles centre, , watched by his wife Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, right, lays a wreath on the grave of Charles Dickens in Westminster Abbey London to mark the bicentenary of the birth of the author Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012.
'Please, sir, we want some more': 200 years on, appetite for Dickens still strong
LONDON - He wrote about life in the modern city, with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks. He created characters still known to millions — Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Miss Havisham, Fagin and Oliver Twist. And it made him a star, mobbed by ...
This Week’s Books
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SUSPENSE: There is no mystery -- avoid this bunch of stinkers
THE new year brings not a bumper crop, not an avalanche, but a veritable tsunami of new mystery-crime novels. What's a maxed-out credit-card victim to do? In a nod to our cash-strapped times, here are some much-hyped entries -- to religiously avoid.
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Publisher announces new Lemony Snicket series, 'Who Could That Be At This Hour?' for fall
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Against the apparent wishes of the author, a new Lemony Snicket series begins this fall.
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With bluntness, Barbara Kafka has spent career helping home cooks navigate trends
For more than 30 years, Barbara Kafka has been telling people — in no uncertain terms — how to cook in the moment.
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Filmmaker Lynne Ramsay didn't give up on 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'
TORONTO - When Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay first approached BBC Films about turning the provocative novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin" into a movie, she was told it was too dark.
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Sanchez Vicario blames parents for mismanaging away $60M in career winnings
MADRID - Tennis great Arantxa Sanchez Vicario has accused her parents of losing through poor management the estimated US$60 million she earned in her career.
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Laureen Harper pens intro to Chinese translation of Canadian classic
BEIJING, China - As she tours China along with her husband, Laureen Harper has her own wish for the Chinese people.
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'Believing the Lie' by Elizabeth George tops Maclean's fiction list
Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending Feb. 7 compiled by Maclean's magazine.
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Review: p.g. sturges plumbs depths of dark comedy in sequel to 'Shortcut Man'
"Tribulations of the Shortcut Man" (Scribner), by p.g. sturges: At the start of p.g. sturges' follow-up to last year's "Shortcut Man," Dick Henry — the guy people call to fix things when legal recourse is either exhausted or out of the question — is putting the screws to a scam artist. It's merely an opening scene with little bearing on the primary story, but the extortionist periodically reappears as a running joke in this highly entertaining, if gruesome, sequel, "Tribulations of the Shortcut Man."
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Review: 'The Lady in Gold' is fascinating tale of Klimt's 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer'
"The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer'" (Knopf), by Anne-Marie O'Connor: In 1907, when Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted his famed portrait of the Viennese socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer, he could not have known that the sophisticated world inhabited by the sitter's wealthy Jewish family would be destroyed by the Nazi takeover of the country in 1938. Adele's heirs fled to Switzerland — their business interests in tatters and their art collection, including the portrait, confiscated by Hitler's minions.
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Publisher John Sargent Sr., ex-Doubleday CEO, dies at age 87
NEW YORK, N.Y. - John Turner Sargent Sr., a publisher, editor and socialite who as CEO of Doubleday worked with authors from Dwight Eisenhower to Stephen King and helped recruit his friend Jacqueline Kennedy as an editor, died Sunday at age 87.
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Book offers step-by-step plan for keeping a healthy kitchen and nutritious diet
Size does matter, especially when it comes to food portions.
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E-books by crime writer Jim Thompson coming soon; he helped turn pulp fiction into art form
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Novels by acclaimed crime writer Jim Thompson are coming out as e-books.
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Kisses for Kingston: Ontario city named Canada's most romantic city by Amazon
TORONTO - Romance appears to reign supreme in Kingston.
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Kristin Hannah stirs up emotion about love, loss and family with latest novel, 'Home Front'
NEW YORK, N.Y. - "Home Front" (St. Martin's Press), by Kristin Hannah: Fans of Kristin Hannah's books appreciate her ability to create entertaining stories that are also relatable.
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Intelligent look at semi-automatic pistol that is part of U.S. landscape
The brain-child of a one-time obscure Austrian engineer named Gaston Glock, this semi-automatic pistol made in large part of polymer is now part of the U.S. landscape, thanks in large part to Hollywood's Die Hard 2, where Bruce Willis has a famous encounter with it.
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Book on solo living records challenge to family life in choices by young and old
"Going Solo" (The Penguin Press), by Eric Klinenberg: Living in families, though traditional and almost universal on this evolving planet, is experiencing an unplanned but effective attack, according to a new book.
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Review: 'The Mirage' is compelling alternative history of 9-11 and its aftermath
"The Mirage" (Harper), by Matt Ruff: An alternate history of the events surrounding 9-11 creates a unique and compelling read in Matt Ruff's "The Mirage."
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Review: Lisa Gardner's latest psychological thriller will keep readers turning the pages
"Catch Me" (Dutton), by Lisa Gardner: If you knew the exact date and time of your death, what would you do? "Everyone has to die sometime. Be brave."
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Review: A heart-rending tale of a garbage trader and his neighbours in the Mumbai slums
"Behind the Beautiful Forevers" (Random House), by Katherine Boo: This book should come with a warning — reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that global capitalism will set the world's billions free from poverty.
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'Book of Mormon,' Tony Danza's 'Honeymoon in Vegas' coming to Toronto
TORONTO - The raunchy Broadway smash "The Book of Mormon" and a theatrical version of "Honeymoon in Vegas" starring Tony Danza are headed to Toronto.
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Readable look at chance of life on other worlds
On a clear night, you can see about 5,000 stars with your naked eye. Many of them are thought to have planets orbiting them, much as Earth orbits our own star, the sun.
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Toronto historian raises provocative ideas, unable to carry them off
After an unhappy stint as a lay preacher in a Belgian mining town, Vincent van Gogh turned from religion to art. As Modris Eksteins writes in this uneven but still intriguing cultural history, the 20th century turned art into religion.
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Thinking small but driving large
Few cars have had as dramatic a history as the Volkswagen Beetle and few cars have been as loved by their owners.
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How gay writers drove revolution
AS the fortunes of the gay-rights movement continue to soar, this new book reflects on the stories that helped carry the revolution forward when courts, politics and protests could not.
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You'll laugh, you'll cry at rare, lovely romantic moments
LATELY it seems as if popular young-adult fiction is split between supernatural romances a la Twilight and post-apocalyptic worlds a la The Hunger Games. These scenarios, it seems, appeal to teens' heightened sense of drama about their love lives and the trials of adolescence in general.
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Famous first words
James Franco is a busy man. An actor-director-curator-Gucci model-Oscar host-drag queen-grad student-General Hospital guest star-conceptual artist, he keeps collecting those hyphens. His most recent add-on is "novelist."
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PAPERBACKS: Innocent reminds us how good Turow can be
Twenty-odd years after he was accused (and acquitted) of the murder of a former lover, prosecutor-turned-judge Rusty Sabich is again put on trial -- this time, for killing his wife. Innocent (Vision, 542 pages, $11), by American Scott Turow, is as compelling and daring as its hugely popular predecessor, 1987's Presumed Innocent.
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PAPER CHASE: It's Your Money Honey: read about it
Winnipeg entrepreneurs Laura McDonald and Susan Misner feel too few women are engaged in financial matters, and hope to remedy this with the launch of It's Your Money, Honey: A Girl's Guide to Saving, Investing, and Building Wealth at Every Age and Life Stage.
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Don't like how you behave? Blame it on circumstances
TO understand human nature, you must appreciate the power of situations. This sums up the fascinating perspective of this well-written and researched work of pop psychology.
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Totalitarian novel, North Korean style
SEVERAL great novels have been written about totalitarianism.
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New In Paper: Feb 2-12
The Quiet Twin
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On the NightTable: JoAnne Buth
JoAnne Buth
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Canadian children's writer Joyce Barkhouse, author of 'Pit Pony,' dies at age 98
TORONTO - Canadian children's author Joyce Barkhouse, whose novel "Pit Pony" was adapted for the small screen as a Gemini Award-winning film and a series, has died.
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Author Léveillé wins arts distinction award
Franco-Manitoban author J. Roger Léveillé is this year’s recipient of the Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction, the Manitoba Arts Council announced this week.
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