There's no mincing words or missing the targets of this tart-tongued book of short essays by Barbara Ehrenreich. The titular “their” takes many forms, ranging from the Bush administration to the health care system to corporations who spy on their underpaid employees. 
Book editors receive stacks of books every week, usually a predictable lot of softback review copies, hardback would-be blockbusters and trade paperbacks. Mr. Fooster announced himself with a postcard. It bore a drawing of a man blowing a gigantic bubble from a little wand. 
Martin Clark will sign copies of his newest novel, “The Legal Limit” ($24.95, Knopf), at Park Road Books, 4139 Park Road, at 7 p.m. Monday.
Paul Miller is a word guy – a Davidson College English professor who makes his living reading, writing and teaching.
How do you choose when there are thousands more good books than you'll ever have time to read? For starters, check out these summer reading suggestions.
My admission a couple weeks ago that I spend my life mentally correcting grammar mistakes brought many wonderful responses from anal-like-me language lovers with their own peeves.
Teens, too young to vote, purchase cigarettes or beer, are indicted for murder and sentenced to life imprisonment or death. Susan Kuklin, author of "No Choirboy," stresses the importance of two questions in the appeals process: "Are you the sum total of your worst acts?" and "Are we able to determine, justly, what punishment people deserve for their worst act?"
Ethan Canin's riveting and thought-provoking political novel arrives at the perfect time - the summer before a pivotal presidential election - and reflects wisely on the ongoing clash of public idealism and ruthless ambition.
The question makes unattached women of a certain age cringe: Why are you still single? The answer is simple in this captivating debut novel - because men are married, stupid, selfish or all three - and Liz Tuccillo turns the unwelcome query into an international examination of love, heartbreak and singledom.
When we asked book clubs in the Charlotte area to send us their reading lists for the year ahead, more than 90 clubs responded.
This week's literary events in the area.
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This week's literary events in the area.
The week's best-selling books.
This crowded, sprawling city isn't exactly Michael Mountain's turf. He's used to "3,700 acres, all canyon country, surrounded by federal and state land."
The question makes unattached women of a certain age cringe: Why are you still single? The answer is simple in this captivating debut novel - because men are married, stupid, selfish or all three - and Liz Tuccillo turns the unwelcome query into an international examination of love, heartbreak and singledom.
Ethan Canin's riveting and thought-provoking political novel arrives at the perfect time - the summer before a pivotal presidential election - and reflects wisely on the ongoing clash of public idealism and ruthless ambition.
This is not your normal and beloved nice-boy-meets-nice-girl-and-overcomes-obstacles-to-savor-their-love-happily-ever-after sort of book.
Teens, too young to vote, purchase cigarettes or beer, are indicted for murder and sentenced to life imprisonment or death. Susan Kuklin, author of "No Choirboy," stresses the importance of two questions in the appeals process: "Are you the sum total of your worst acts?" and "Are we able to determine, justly, what punishment people deserve for their worst act?"
Book editors receive stacks of books every week, usually a predictable lot of softback review copies, hardback would-be blockbusters and trade paperbacks. Mr. Fooster announced himself with a postcard. It bore a drawing of a man blowing a gigantic bubble from a little wand.
Martin Clark will sign copies of his newest novel, “The Legal Limit” ($24.95, Knopf), at Park Road Books, 4139 Park Road, at 7 p.m. Monday.
