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...literature. "Louis Riel" ties together all the ideas Chester Brown has explored before in disparate ways: the capriciousness and injustice of authority, the relationship between religious fervor and madness and the relative "truth" of nonfiction. "Louis Riel," as told by Chester Brown becomes a deeply personal, utterly compelling page-turner in the guise of a 19th-century history book...
...like a little baby left at a doorstep, needing a woman to take care of me. Maybe I'll just have to date for the rest of my life. Or maybe the love of my life is yet to come." TED TURNER on his attempt to find a new life now that he lost billions of dollars' worth of AOL Time Warner stock and stepped down as vice chairman of the company...
...Krakatoa (HarperCollins; 416 pages), Simon Winchester takes an event that happened in a white-hot second and expands it in both directions, filling in the backstory and aftershocks to create a mesmerizing page turner. When Krakatoa erupted, at 10:02 a.m. on Aug. 27, 1883, it vaporized a 2,600-ft. mountain, created waves that killed a woman 2,000 miles away and produced spectacular sunsets as distant as New York City. But Winchester, who wrote the best-selling The Professor and the Madman, finds human stories in the island's troubled history that dwarf even the volcanic...
...singles, Harvard earned its first victory from Chu at No. 2 by a 7-5, 6-4 margin. But shortly after Chu’s victory, junior George Turner fell 1-6, 4-6 at No. 5, to make the score 2-1 Harvard...
...Corker says. “I had also done prior work in the development of pay-per-view television. As such, I had more knowledge than the average fan about how the industry works… I helped him get a preliminary tryout with the wrestling organization owned by Turner Broadcasting...