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The music in our hearts
Two new books look at enduringly popular songs: ``White Christmas'' and ``Amazing Grace''
By David L. Beck / Mercury News
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`Grapes of Wrath' has online forum
As you probably know, the California Center for the Humanities is sponsoring a movement to have everyone in California read John Steinbeck's ``The Grapes of Wrath'' this summer. But maybe you've resisted the idea because you don't have anyone to share your insights or answer your questions about the book.
By the Mercury News
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Mysteries
Reviewed: ``On Edge,'' by Barbara Fister; ``Dead Aim,'' by Thomas Perry; ``Matchstick Men: A Novel of Petty Crimes,'' by Eric Garcia
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Write On
Pacific Rim Voices, the organization that administers the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, compiles a list of ``notable books'' -- fiction and non-fiction works that cover the entire span of the region. It's both a terrific reading list and a suggestive gift list.
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A study in contrasts
Margaret Drabble and A.S. Byatt (nee Antonia Susan Drabble) are perhaps the most distinguished sister act in literature since the Brontës. They would doubtless protest the label -- it's said that they have not always been on the best of terms -- but each of them has just published a new novel, so comparisons will be made.
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Two books look at the dark history of the Germans and the Jews
``The Pity of It All,'' by Amos Elon, is a brilliant, far-reaching, passionate and yet measured history of Jewish life in Germany, while ``The Butcher's Tale,'' by Helmut Walser Smith, focuses narrowly on a particular case of German anti-Semitism.
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A seasonal treat
Janet Evanovich has delivered an early present with ``Visions of Sugar Plums,'' a hilarious holiday novella featuring our favorite Jersey girl, big-haired bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.
By Nancy Pate / Orlando Sentinel
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