Readers discuss recent book picks across genres
Jennifer Lawler praises J K Rowling's final Harry Potter entry as moving and satisfying. Ricardo Olea notes Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything emphasizes Earth's natural history rather than people. Kelly Mills reviews Sebastian Junger's A Death in Belmont about the Boston Strangler case. Nicole Sabatini reads Kevin Phillips American Theocracy and Randall Balmer Thy Kingdom Come, noting contrasts in religious right influence. Dave Eggers What is the What chronicles a Sudanese refugee's journey, blending fiction and reality.
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Ricardo Olea
U.S. Geological Survey
Virginia
Bill Bryson
Earth
Kelly Mills
Lawrence
Belmont
Sebastian Junger
Boston
Kevin Phillips
America
Randall Balmer
U.S
Nicole Sabatini
Dave Eggers
Sudan
NBC reporter’s Cape Canaveral memoir details 50 years of spaceflight
Veteran NBC space correspondent Jay Barbree chronicles half a century of NASA launches in Live from Cape Canaveral. The book traces Sputnik to the Shuttle era, notes Barbree’s presence at all 150 manned flights, and highlights Mercury seven memories, notable scoops, and his close ties with astronauts including Glenn and Shepard.
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NBC
Cape Canaveral
Fla
NBC Space
Jay Barbree
Smithsonian Books
Barbree
Kennedy Space Center
NASA
Soviet Union
Sputnik
WALB
Albany
Air Force
America
Vanguard
NBC News
Cape
Tom) O’malley
John Glenn
Guy
O’malley
Alan Shepard
Shepard
Mercury
Deke Slayton
Associated Press Aerospace
Howard Benedict
Glenn
Gus Grissom
Alan
Gus
John
Scott
Wally
Gordo
Deke
Kirkus Reviews
Tom Wolfe
Wolfe
Kirkus
The
Space Center
Walter Schirra Jr
Donald Slayton
Scott Carpenter
Alan Shepard Jr
Virgil Grissom
Gordon Cooper
Poet's Showcase Tick By Mike Penner
A reflective poem ponders the relentless clock ticking. The speaker considers stopping time by violent acts but finds no lasting peace, admitting an unending cycle of pursuit and defiance against every tick.
Bestselling Books Snapshot in Brief List
A concise rundown of top titles with authors publishers and prices. Highlights include A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell with details on plots and themes.
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Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead
Afghanistan
Sandra Brown
Simon & Schuster
N.F.L
Amy Bloom
Random House
America
James Patterson
Michael Ledwidge
Little, Brown
The Portable Obituary and the Lives It Fragments
A review of Michael Largo’s The Portable Obituary which argues the book treats death as a concise epitaph while highlighting how it often reveals little about the subjects’ lives. It notes quirky cases, critiques linking death to life, and calls the collection a entertaining survey of notable figures and their fates.
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Michael Largo
Harper Paperbacks
Fred Astaire
Ginger
Largo
Sonny Bono
Cher
Babe
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Nathan Whitaker
Tyndale
Marcus Luttrell
Patrick Robinson
Duane Chapman
Laura Morton
Hyperion
A&e
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