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With Poisonwood still riding near the top of paperback charts, thanks at least in part to its June selection by the Oprah Book Club, here comes Kingsolver's new novel, Prodigal Summer (HarperCollins; 444 pages; $26), which is something of a return to the author's earlier form. It is an altogether lighter and more easygoing affair than its immediate predecessor. Its setting has narrowed from the vast heart of Africa to a mountain and valley in southern Appalachia over the course of a single hot and unusually rainy summer. Its subject is not the clash of ideologies...
...figured out how to "pay it forward" big time. This weekend (Oct. 20), her novel Pay It Forward becomes a major film starring Oscar winners Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, as well as nominee Haley Joel Osment. Hyde's book, published early this year, is just out in paperback. And across the U.S., kids and some adults are adopting the pay-it-forward philosophy, performing random acts of kindness. "Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic," says Hyde, who has watched the ideas roll into the payitforwardfoundation.com...
...With "Poisonwood" still riding near the top of paperback charts, thanks at least in part to its June selection by the Oprah Book Club, here comes Kingsolver's new novel, "Prodigal Summer" (HarperCollins; 444 pages; $26), which is something of a return to the author's earlier form. It is an altogether lighter and more easygoing affair than its immediate predecessor. Its setting has narrowed from the vast heart of Africa to a mountain and valley in southern Appalachia over the course of a single hot and unusually rainy summer. Its subject is not the clash of ideologies...
...enthusiastic and briskly written 800-page Empire Express, published last year and now in a Penguin USA paperback edition, Middlebury College scholar David Haward Bain follows the money and back-room politics in more detail than Ambrose provides. Not unexpectedly, the G.I.'s chronicler prefers the front lines, where he is at his best describing men, armed with only hand tools, hacking and scraping their way over 2,000 inhospitable miles. When black powder proved too slow in piercing mountain granite, more powerful but dangerously unstable nitroglycerin was used--even though that meant more blasters would...
READY, SET, SET-TOP TVemail ($79.95, $9.95 a month) goes even further to solve the "footprint" problem that many seniors have when it comes to putting something new in their home. It's a small, paperback-size black box that sits on top of the TV and comes with a curvaceous wireless keyboard. No Web access, though maker eNote.com will send news, scores and weather reports to users over e-mail...