Review: New bio of Sugar Ray Robinson packs punch
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"Sweet Thunder" (Knopf, 464 pages, $27.95), by Wil Haygood: The boxer Sugar Ray Robinson was a man of glittering skill and deep complexity. So complex, in fact, that several writers - including Robinson himself - have tried and failed to render a full portrait.
Chinua Achebe returns with a collection of essays
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"The Education of a British-Protected Child" (Knopf, 208 pages, $24.95), by Chinua Achebe: Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's new book, his first in 20 years, is not especially new. And maybe that's part of the point.

Review: Samuel Johnson bio shows man behind text
By MARY FOSTER | Associated Press Writer | 3:32PM
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"Samuel Johnson: A Life" (Henry Holt and Company, 432 pages, $30), by David Nokes: David Nokes, a prominent scholar of 18th-century English literature, takes a fresh look at Samuel Johnson, the man known as the creator of the dictionary. In doing so, Nokes shows a very human side of Johnson, and the perspective of his times.

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Slices of life and limbs fill King's new novel

Stephen King has settled down a bit from the days when he would wipe out most of the world's population with a flu bug just to set the stage for his real story. But once in a while he still likes to work on a big canvas and take, say, a small-to-middling Maine town and put it through the wrath of God.

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Audience Picks: 100 Best Beach Books Ever

Book-loving NPR listeners cast some 136,000 votes in the Best Beach Books Ever poll. These tomes came out on top.

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High art in the attic: Anne Frank's legacy

Francine Prose's "Anne Frank" is, in effect, a biography of the book.

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