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2008 summer reading list
What are you going to read this summer? Let Book Review help you decide.
June 8, 2008
Editor's Note: It's a perennial question for the summer months, what to read? Here you'll mind more than 50 titles in fiction andƒononfiction, organized according to the months when they'll be published. Books are listed in alphabetical order by title. There's only one thing left to say: Good luck!
Editor's Note: It's a perennial question for the summer months, what to read? Here you'll mind more than 50 titles in fiction andƒononfiction, organized according to the months when they'll be published. Books are listed in alphabetical order by title. There's only one thing left to say: Good luck!
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America America
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America America
A Novel
Ethan Canin
Random House
During the Nixon era, a working-class boy's involvement with a powerful upstate New York family and a rising senator reveals the heights and depths of ambition in a novel of epic scope.
Claim of Privilege
A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets
Barry Siegel
Harper
How a case involving the widows of three civilian engineers, killed in a 1948 U.S. Air Force plane crash, led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing the "state secrets" privilege.
The Eaves of Heaven
A Life in Three Wars
Andrew X. Pham
Harmony Books
A son's harrowing yet radiant account of his wealthy Vietnamese father's struggle to survive the Japanese invasion of World War II, the French occupation of Indochina and a Viet Cong "reeducation camp."
The Garden of Last Days
Ethan Canin
Random House
During the Nixon era, a working-class boy's involvement with a powerful upstate New York family and a rising senator reveals the heights and depths of ambition in a novel of epic scope.
Claim of Privilege
A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets
Barry Siegel
Harper
How a case involving the widows of three civilian engineers, killed in a 1948 U.S. Air Force plane crash, led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing the "state secrets" privilege.
The Eaves of Heaven
A Life in Three Wars
Andrew X. Pham
Harmony Books
A son's harrowing yet radiant account of his wealthy Vietnamese father's struggle to survive the Japanese invasion of World War II, the French occupation of Indochina and a Viet Cong "reeducation camp."
The Garden of Last Days
The Los Angeles residence is filled with a well-edited, eclectic mix of traditional and modern furnishings, and with memorabilia from her famous grandmama, actress Gloria Swanson.
Here are some places where you can feed your Bigfoot curiosity and see some gorgeous scenery along the way. Photos
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