Spring Book Season Highlights Notable Fiction and Nonfiction
Notable spring titles arrive from Morrison and Dillard in fiction while Ivana Trump and Tony Blair era figures lead non fiction lists. Oates Grimes and Didion anchor a diverse parade of authors with payoffs in crime mystery and memoirs across major publishers.
Double Cross biography of mob boss Sam Giancana
Biographer Chuck Giancana and Sam Giancana Jr reveal Mooney led the Chicago outfit from violence to power. The book covers his role in the St Valentine Massacre, CIA ties, plots against Castro, Kennedy links, and possible Monroe and Kennedy deaths. Mooney died in 1975 in Illinois from a staged shooting while cooking sausages.
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Castro
Kennedy
Marilyn Monroe
John
Bobby Kennedy
Illinois
Chuck Giancana
The Feather Quest by Peter Dunne review
Peter Dunne, ornithologist naturalist with the New Jersey Audubon Society, offers a month by month North American birding year. He proves a companionable guide and sharp writer with witty scenes and Alaska reflections.
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America
United States
Peter Dunne
Dutton
North America
Dunne
New Jersey Audubon Society
Best selling books listed by genre in Newsday
Newsday lists top titles across fiction non fiction and paperback. Notable entries include The Pelican Brief Jazz Rising Sun All Around the Town Is for Innocent Backlash Revolution from Within A Return to Love Two Nations The Chairman The Firm Fried Green Tomatoes Object Lessons with publishers noted.
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Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster
Sue Grafton
Henry Holt
Martha Grimes
Knopf
Chaim Potok
I Am
The
John Grisham
Doubleday
Toni Morrison
Michael Crichton
Holt
University of Iowa Press One Day Book Sale
A one day sale at the University of Iowa Press in Iowa City offers more than 170 backlist titles across natural history literary criticism journalism and medical humanities plus best sellers gift books and U I Press T shirts. Proceeds from T shirt sales support publication of the Iowa Short Fiction Award series. Sale runs 10 am to 7 pm in Room 308 English Philosophy building.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa Press
U of I Press
Iowa
English Philosophy
U of I
MasterCard
George Henry signs Row Away from the Rocks at Corner House
Cedar Rapids photographer George Henry will autograph his book Row Away from the Rocks at Corner House Gallery on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. The event is part of a local book discussions series with additional exhibits and free lectures by Mary Catherine Bateson and Barbara Ehrenreich at area venues.
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the Rocks
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Henry
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Utah
Colorado
Mary Catherine Bateson
King Chapel
Cornell College
Bateson
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