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Topic: Books (page 204)

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Vincent Rossmeier

An exuberant portrait of adventurer Joseph Banks after his triumphant return from the Pacific.

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Central Cahokia.

Hannah Friedman

Must Read: A bitter blogger's romantic revenge

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In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 18, 2008, Henry Louis Gates Jr., historian and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, poses for a photograph in his home in Cambridge, Mass. Gates has accused the Cambridge police of racism after being arrested trying to get into his own locked home near Harvard University on Thursday, July 16, 2009.

In this Jan. 29, 1997 file photo, Frank McCourt, retired teacher and author of the best selling book "Angela's Ashes," sits during an interview in his New York apartment. Brother Malachy McCourt says Frank McCourt died Sunday afternoon July 19, 2009, at a Manhattan hospice in New York City at age 78.

Stephanie Zacharek

This is Your Country on Drugs

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers takes on staggering reality

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The "Infinite Summer" of David Foster Wallace

In this Oct. 2, 2008 file photo, a shopper strolls pass the ten dollar toys on display at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Rosemead, Calif. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, its low-price focus and sales of Halloween merchandise boosted October same-store sales by 2.4 percent, ahead of expectations.

Stephanie Zacharek

Scott Rosenberg

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Top: U.S. President Ronald Reagan, left, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev stand alone during their impromptu walk in Red Square in Moscow, USSR, Tuesday, May 31, 1988. In the background is St. Basil's Cathedral. Bottom: East German border guards look through a hole in the Berlin wall after demonstrators pulled down one segment of the wall at Brandenburg gate in this November 11, 1989 picture.

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Alyssa Katz

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Buffy fans: read this

Lauren Conrad

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