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January 15, 2010

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published January 15, 2010. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in January 2010.

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Baseball's Greatest Series

In mid-1995, baseball seemed to be finished as the nation’s pastime. A devastating strike ended the 1994 season in mid-August, and no one wanted anything to do with the replacement players that were trotted out for the following Spring... Read More

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Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours

Bright Triumphs from Dark Hours aims to empower the fatigued spirit with stories of ten relentlessly driven individuals who rose from the lowest points in their lives to bravely forge new paths toward personal and professional success.... Read More

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Instant Bargains

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the average American family of four spends an estimated $700 per month on groceries. Many spenders are trying to wade through the recession by cutting back this amount, but they may wonder where... Read More

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Blows to the Head

For those who’ve never ventured into a boxing gym, the sport can sometimes seem the brutal, mysterious realm of grizzled trainers and hardened athletes. In that light, the image of a middle-aged female Jewish psychotherapist tying on... Read More

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Drowned Boy

Two twentieth-century masters of the bildungsroman were James Joyce (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Ernest Hemingway (The Nick Adams Stories). Now the literary world has Joyce and Hemingway’s twenty-first century successor... Read More

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Death at the Alma Mater

by Julia Ann Charpentier

Lexy Durant was drop-dead gorgeous, ambitious, and successful. She inspired envy in those she met, making the fortunate person who stood next to her feel woefully inadequate. Her sense of style was the epitome of perfection, and those... Read More

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The Rules of Play

In Jennie Walker’s The Rules of Play, everything’s a game. From cricket, card tricks, and crossword puzzles, to motherhood, marriage, adultery, and cooking, each conversation and every action is narrated play-by-play, with special... Read More

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