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...traveling, a hard-boiled soft-cover can be just the ticket. If you're not traveling, you'll want novels that can transport you. Here are some recent paperback mysteries from far and near that are worth investigating THE TERRA-COTTA DOG Andrea Camilleri (Penguin) Sicilian inspector Salvo Montalbano follows the trail of a supermarket heist to a cave where two young bodies lay, dead since World...
Shortly after Summers presented the grant to Menino, each Tenacity student received a paperback copy of Louis Sachar’s Newbery Medal-winning Holes as a gift from Harvard. The students broke into three groups and moved from the tennis court to the shade of nearby trees as it began to drizzle...
Each of the nine stories in Joe Ollmann's new black and white paperback, "Chewing on Tinfoil," (Insomniac Press; 155 pp.; $15.95) feature some sort of (un)lovable loser. The alienated high-school kid, office milquetoast, pretentious layabout, lapsed art student, and bowl-hair-cut kid: all these and more appear in its pages. Ollmann's work is new to me, and it has the leaps and falls of a new artist extending himself. Some of the tales are artless swipes at the usual archetypes, but enough of the stories surprise you with odd details or an unexpected twist...
...guidebook than an alphabet book of Indonesia's capital, Daniel Ziv's Jakarta Inside Out is a curious hybrid that will have a hard time finding a place on bookstore shelves. Which is a pity. The slim volume is graced with striking photographs of city life, but the paperback format and irreverent, witty observations keep it firmly out of the coffee-table book genre. The 60-odd short essays on subjects ranging from the ubiquitous Asongan (vendors who ply their wares through the city's equally ubiquitous traffic jams), to bules (resident foreigners), nonkong (the art of hanging...
DAVID BROCK. The formerly conservative writer, most famous for blasting Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, will be reading from his new-in-paperback autobiography “Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative.” Tuesday, Mar. 11 at 7 p.m. WordsWorth Books, 30 Brattle...