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A Different Drummer
His latest offering is neither a biography of the former president nor a work meant to "satisfy those who want a penetrating insight into the mystery of the man,"...

Glory Denied
While the ex-Green Beret survived the war, his faith and family life did not. His wife, Alyce, had assumed that "missing" meant "dead."...

The Cold Six Thousand
Lock into the ethos. Slide into the groove. Synchronize your psyche with the frenzied, staccato explosions of red-misted violence and the jarring, busted-knuckle prose of James Ellroy...

Poker: Bets, Bluffs and Bad Beats
Novelist and critic Alvarez has written about poker before, most notably in his classic "The Biggest Game in Town," about the World Series of Poker...

A Primate`s Memoir
Sometimes I wonder whatever happened to ol` Norm. Norm was a Macaca iris monkey living in the University of California Berkeley`s primate research facility, which was tucked into the the hills above the campus...