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A memoir of life in the Nottinghamshire manor house that had so captivated her father.
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A woman in midlife rediscovers the joys of ballroom dancing and finds refuge from an unhappy marriage.
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A black writer discovers a white attorney dead in a Harlem park and believes conspirators at the top echelons of society are responsible.
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With unflinching prose, the author reveals Mexico City's inner life -- its pleasures, pathologies and class conflicts.
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How dumb are we? Thanks to the Internet, dumb and dumber, this author writes.
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A look at the Illinois race riot in 1917, after black laborers came from the Deep South. It helped spark the civil rights movement.
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A '90s teenager grapples with life to a punk-rock score.
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Elvis Cole is back in this elegant thriller about a manhunt on the streets of L.A.
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Of cosmology and so much more: In this novel, three young people come of age in the 1970s amid the discord of their families.
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The search for Germany's 'Desert Fox' in the North African desert during World War II.
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A retired prelate tackles the underlying causes of the clergy sexual-abuse scandal.
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A loving look at the creator of such classics as 'Fritz the Cat' and 'Wizards.'
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The creator of Rumpole of the Bailey unveiled.
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How a Dutch painter fooled the Nazis and most of the art world with his fake Veermeers.
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A beloved mentor proves to be a spy in this tale of the Japanese occupation.
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A down-on-his-luck lawyer schemes to win back his ex-wife by putting lobsters in the mayor’s pool.
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A wealthy Saudi Arabian girl disappears days before her marriage.
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Hip-hop is too politically impotent to make a difference, the author writes.
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The compilation shows the writer's mastery of the form.
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A thriller that spans continents and defies convention
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In 'Making the Cut,' Anthony Elliott calls the demand for surgical enhancement a toxic byproduct of rampant consumerism.
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A hound finds bodies instead of truffles, spurring Chief Inspector Wexford into action.
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An assessment of the failings of both major political parties in the run-up to and continuation of the Iraq war.
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What gets lost when the works of H.P. Lovecraft (left) and other writers of science fiction and horror get adapted for the screen.
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There aren't enough good moments in a day in the life of dysfunctional women in a small Iowa town.
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Characters as caricatures trip up first novel set in wealthy Silicon Valley.
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The author takes an innovative approach to covering the candidacy of France's Nicolas Sarkozy
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A French spy tries to learn Germany's intentions in 1930s Poland in this transcendant novel.
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A stranded passenger at O'Hare, reflecting on a failed life, tells American Airlines perhaps more than it wants to know.
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Sonic Youth redefined alternative rock.
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The commercial world, according to three new books, has a grip on our children and is trying to take the fun out of being a parent.
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After his mother's death, the author helps his 80-year-old father to find a companion. Dating isn't easy for Dad.
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David Guterson's novel "The Other" explores the concepts of friendship and finding purpose in life.
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Intrepid bookseller Lola Sanchez is on the hunt for Montezuma's lost gold.
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A loyalist from the president's days as Texas governor reconsiders George W. Bush's character and finds it wanting.
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A Hollywood producer talks about six decades in the business.
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This latest James Bond novel by an Ian Fleming impersonator owes more to the cinematic 007 tradition than to the 'shaken, not stirred' fellow envisioned by his creator.
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A New Yorker reconnects with cricket and life in the shadow of Sept. 11.
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Joseph Needham, the Cambridge-educated biochemist and linguist, spent his life exploring Chinese culture and science.
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Faith, compassion and hope are challenged in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Revisiting the dark days of postwar Britain.
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Friends and family talk about the the famed comedian, his self-deprecating humor and his demons.
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What could be a fascinating history of the natural landmark is overwrought with irrelevant details.
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Someone wants to kill an aging porn star who's trying to set a record for most copulations on camera.
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The author defends the grape's old-fashioned, natural values in response to the industry's growing globalization.
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A memoir of life in a nuclear research town
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Six women bond over children, relationships and find strength in numbers.
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A memoir of life at Bob Dylan's side, in the crucible of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, before and during the flood of fame.
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Ian Frazier's 'Lamentations of the Father' collects humorous essays by a longtime staff writer of the New Yorker.
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Shallow characters populate this poorly written, superficial novel set in Los Angeles.
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The Rolling Stone journalist writes an election-year book that centers on what he sees as the unhinging of America.
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A widower struggles with loss, lust.
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The latest adventures of antihero and master criminal Parker
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Francis Coppola's wife writes of her life as an outsider in the movie world.
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The memoir of a Jewish teenager in Omaha, land of Cheez Whiz, Twizzlers and Philistines.
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A look at the Kennedy White House and the author's lifelong romance with politics.
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A woman detective must unmask and stop a vicious serial killer in rural Canada.
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Half-vampire, half-human teen story missing its teeth.
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Two cohabiting couples, four interlocking narratives and the vicissitudes of love and luck.
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In 'Life Beyond Measure,' Sidney Poitier muses about some of the lessons he's learned in letters to his great-granddaughter.
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In '1940,' Jay Neugeboren examines the roots of Hitler's hatred of Jews with a story about the family physician, who was Jewish.
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A life immersed in literature and teaching.
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'Imagine Me and You' by Billy Mernit
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An epic adventure in living green.
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A tribesman who served as a translator for U.N. observers and foreign journalists in Darfur tells his story.
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The memoir chronicles the actress and singer's days as a child star of British theater and her path to becoming Mary Poppins.
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The subtle historian excels on 20th century European intellectuals but trips in polemics on Israel.
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A father tries to bring his comic-book-loving son out of a coma.
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The columnist becomes an unlikely advocate and friend to a mentally ill homeless man who was once a musical prodigy.
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Welcome to the world of tribute bands, where competition is tough and reality and fantasy sometimes blur.
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On the failure of black public intellectuals to build on the struggles of the civil rights era and the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Film on Paper" delivers insight -- and attitude -- in this collection of book reviews about Hollywood, past and present.
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Which handles money better? A casino or Wall Street? A look at the reckless financing and political decision-making preceding the current economic crisis.
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If only teen life could be like a high school musical, but in Dunthorne's tale, everything smells like teen angst.
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The essays, reviews and short stories in this collection about Sept. 11 and terrorism are illuminating though sometimes flawed.
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Custer's allure continues in two new books about the the battle of Little Bighorn, general and his fascinating legacy.
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A successful writer's suicide triggers soul-searching in his upstate New York hometown.
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Remember "Soylent Green"? The 1966 novel on which the film was based is republished.
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The story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo (left) of a 1976 demonstration and its impact on civil rights resistance.
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In 'The End of the World Book,' something's missing in the family encyclopedia -- and Alistair McCartney has his finger on it.
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Family secrets lie at the end of a dark, twisted path in this taut novel of intrigue and dread.
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'Button, Button: Uncanny Stories,' by Richard Matheson
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'Draining the Sea,' a novel by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
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'Screen Plays: How 25 Scripts Made It to a Theater Near You -- For Better Or Worse' by David S. Cohen
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'Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom: Andrés Reiner and Scouting on the New Frontier' by Milton H. Jamail
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An unflinching account of the rise of the puritanically religious Bin Laden and Saud families as the West fought the Cold War.
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Imagining a plundered, media-plagued Earth
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Anne Rice's Jesus is on the long road to Cana in the second of her 'Christ the Lord' series.
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'Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work' by Joni B. Cole and B.K. Rakhra
More than 500 women offer accounts of their workday, on jobs ranging from the exotic to the maddening.
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'Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography' by Charlotte Chandler
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In "Hollywood Crows," the novelist takes his cops into Hollywood's tumultuous, changing immigrant community.
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A bibliophile writes a love letter about his passion.
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The author and former political prisoner explores the fate of Mongolian herders and Mongolian wolves in Communist China.
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'Kat is one of those beautiful people, like Neal Cassady or Janis Joplin, who seem too good for this world, only Krazy lacks tragedy.'
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The novel visits 1960s suburbia, where an unspeakable evil lurks.
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John Lennon's lover documents the ex-Beatle's infamous 18-month "lost weekend," when he fled the celebrity merry-go-round.
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The bewildered patriarch of the Jones family confronts grief and age in "A Curious Earth," a darkly comedic novel about a London family.
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A man's search for his family's history turns up a vengeful ancestor.
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A vet turns to fight the past that dogs him
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Blurring the boundaries of science and art
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Finding tiny pieces of hope in a cruel and chaotic world
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In Laura Lippman's "Another Thing to Fall," P.I. Tess Monaghan finds babysitting a TV star annoying -- but hey, it's a living.
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Matthew Parker's book tells the epic story of the building of the Panama Canal.
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Law would encourage development of alternative energy, authors claim
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The sequel to 'Jim the Boy' is a WWII-era coming of age tale.
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What's your sexual fantasy?
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The Russian musicologist surveys Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn.
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In "The Silver Swan," John Banville's latest foray as Benjamin Black, a pathologist's demons mar his search for a murderer.
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'A Bound Man' and 'Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary' consider the candidates as a black man and a woman, but offer little insight on what their presidencies would mean.
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'60 Years of Baseball in Vero Beach'
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'What the Gospels Meant' by Garry Wills
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A sugar-coated history of the United Fruit Co.'s role in Latin America.
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Writer's first novel explores revolution's timeless lessons.
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Violence, a familiar strain in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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From isolation to freedom to disappointment, Li felt the ripples of China's transition.
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'Editions & Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat,' by Nicholas A. Basbanes
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FBI Special Agent Ana Grey goes after ecoterrorists in the Pacific Northwest.
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'David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre' by Ira Nadel
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'Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World,' by Samantha Power
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A memoir of life with bipolar disease
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The tale of a lost boy in an unnamed city not unlike Los Angeles.
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Sherlock-style deducifyin' on the streets of old San Francisco
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Mount Vernon's history as a national shrine in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as told by its African American employees.
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Two views on one of the most explosively creative periods in filmmaking
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A retired photojournalist is stalked by a Croatian man, whose life was ruined after Serbs recognized the man's photo.
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She called upon the Islamic world to work toward avoiding a clash of civilizations.
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An anthology of the best writing to appear on blogs from the N.Y. Times' first Web critic.
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A mob middleman's testimony against two dirty cops was a turning point for the Mafia.
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Violence lurks beneath the calm surface of a seaside Scottish town.
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The comic book sci-fi series ends its run after five years.
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Literary comedy goes between the lines of writer's final work
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Complex noir thriller updates the Old West.
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The remarkable political life of one of California's most charming public officeholders.
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Finding and restoring the right piano becomes a love story.
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George Carlin, stand-up comedy revolutionary
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The transgendered author delivers a spirited memoir.
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Deft social realism and iffy grammar.
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The novel recasts Tom Sawyer's girlfriend as her own woman.
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Shape-shifting werewolves lurk in the streets of Los Angeles.
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'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,' a novel by Junot Díaz
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"Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father," by John Matteson
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26 funny, feisty women writers tell all.
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September 11: Terror and Boredom