July 4, 2009



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Books for Grownups

Don't miss the latest fiction, nonfiction, and lifestyle/how-to books of interest to you, brought to you by the editors of Publishers Weekly and AARP The Magazine.


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Book Reviews

Trouble
by Kate Christensen
Review by Wendy Smith

You’re 45, female, and in the throes of a full-blown midlife crisis—what are you gonna do? Why, head for the border, of course! Just make sure that the conundrum you're fleeing is worse than the can of worms you're about to crack open.
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The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors
by Hal Niedzviecki
Review by Janet Kinosian

"As social critic Hal Niedzviecki explains it in The Peep Diaries, Peep is the innate human desire to know and be known, to see and be seen, to communicate and be communicated with."
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Author Bookshelf

 What the writers are reading


Elmore Leonard

Lark and Termite

by Jayne Anne Phillips

(Random House)

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