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Shades of O.J.: a celebrity accused of killing his blond wife, a long journey across L.A. in a white car filmed from the sky by news helicopters, public recriminations from the victim's family. "I had no doubt Blake did it or, at the very least, wrote someone a check to take care of it," Peter Carlyon, the victim's brother, told TIME. "I think he probably pulled the trigger himself." There is even a detective on the case named Ron Ito, though police quickly noted that he isn't related to Lance Ito, the judge...
...prove his unorthodox theory that the Polynesian Islands could have been settled by prehistoric Peruvians, not by Southeast Asians; of brain cancer; on the Italian Riviera. The so-called Kon-Tiki man did not sway scholars, who dismissed him as an amateur, but his 4,300-mile, 101-day journey across the Pacific riveted the public, spawning his internationally best-selling memoir, Kon-Tiki, and an Oscar-winning documentary on the voyage...
...Hank is the first installment in The Gunpowder Trilogy. It details a summer in the life of the eponymous hero, Hank Collins, growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. Headstrong and precocious, he witnesses the dissolution of his family and faces challenges great and small on his lonely journey to maturity...
...dealing with them. With a few deft strokes, he manages to compress every in-between shade of gray into the dialogue and actions of his characters. Like the state of the world it reflects, good and evil are not always so clear-cut. Part of Hank’s journey of growth entails understanding and dealing with that realization...
...business trip to Jerusalem in the late 1990s, she had spotted the word “revenge” spraypainted across an archway, inspiring her to follow through on her poem’s promise. It is here that her story takes off, beginning a whirling journey through a generally unexplored world, as Blumenfeld travels from her new home in Jerusalem to Europe, America and the Middle East, examining the ways revenge is treated in different cultures. Although at times the reader may wish for a stronger sense of chronology, the book skillfully combines personal journal with thoughtful analysis. Whether...