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...Jackie was back in New York. Instead of endorsing a cause, as many ex-First Ladies and underemployed princesses have done, she took a job. First at Viking, then at Doubleday, she became an editor, working three days a week. Until shortly before she died, she was responsible for a dozen books a year, and she gets straight A's from anyone who worked with her. Doubleday chief Stephen Rubin says that "she was directly involved in everything -- line editing, trim size, jacket design, sales and marketing. She would call up a big book chain to push her books...
...volume study by one of the Roman Catholic Church's most prominent experts on the Gospels dismisses that approach. "You can't just say there was no Jewish involvement in the death of Jesus," says Father Raymond E. Brown, author of The Death of the Messiah (Doubleday; 1,608 pages; $75), which re-examines this and dozens of other issues on the crucifixion. "Jesus was a Jew and he dealt with Jewish leaders. So the easy solution that it was an entirely Roman affair doesn't work." He argues, however, that careful examination of the Gospels can provide understanding, even...
Though weakening, the primal links between humans and wild animals are not yet entirely dissolved. In The Great Divorce (Doubleday; 340 pages; $22.50), novelist Valerie Martin weaves together three narratives to explore those connections. Ellen, the veterinarian for a New Orleans zoo, does not like the compromises she has to make. But, she understands, "that's the deal." She feels the hopelessness of preserving animals in "a netherworld of human scrutiny and intervention" by maintaining an ark for captive species that will never sleep freely under a night sky. In her marriage, she accepts her husband's infidelities. Finally...
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PUBLISHER: DOUBLEDAY; 277 PAGES...