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The authors who have captured the sights and sounds of Boston over several hundred years did not limit themselves to downtown.
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Boston-area writer readings, Nov. 29-Dec. 5
TODAY: Aaron Santos discusses “How Many Licks?,” at 6:30 p.m.,...
best sellers
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Going Rogue
By Sarah Palin. HarperCollins.
2. What the Dog Saw
By Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown.
3. Open
By Andre Agassi. Knopf.
4. True Compass
By Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve.
5. When the Game Was Ours
By Larry Bird and Earvin Johnson. Houghton Mifflin.
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Help
By Kathryn Stockett. Putnam.
2. The Lacuna
By Barbara Kingsolver. Harper.
3. The Lost Symbol
By Dan Brown. Doubleday.
4. Under the Dome
By Stephen King. Scribner.
5. I, Alex Cross
By James Patterson. Little, Brown.
Review
A feast of facts in Baker's 'Thanksgiving'
Former director of research at Plimoth Plantation James Baker knows the holiday inside and out and shares with readers how Thanksgivig has changed over the years.
Review
'Mother' starts strong but leaves the reader unbelieving
Every great whodunit has the ability to elicit something like "Of course, that's who did it and of course, that's why and how he or she did it." There are no "of courses" in "The Wrong Mother."
G Force | Mo Lotman
Harvard Square: an illustrated history in food
Mo Lotman's illustrated book shows an area in which continuity and change go together like ivy and brick.
BOOK REVIEW Ancient Rome’s intrigue comes to life in ‘Cleopatra’s Daughter’ (By Lylah M. Alphonse, Globe Staff)
THREE TO SEE Harvard center salutes ACT UP in New York during the ’80s AIDS crisis (By Hannah Martin, Globe Correspondent)
A fresh view of Abigail Adams (By Paul C. Nagel, Globe Correspondent)
This history of jazz is more a primer on how to listen to it (By Steve Greenlee, Globe Staff)
Author signings and readings in Greater Boston, Nov. 22-28 (By Judith Maas, Boston Globe)
Solid attributes but not quite characters (By Richard Eder, Globe Correspondent)
A self-righteous, overprotective doctor splinters family and friends (By David Thoreen, Globe Correspondent)
Short Takes (By Barbara Fisher, Globe Correspondent)
BOOK REVIEW From a man’s mind come a girl’s thoughts in ‘Mathilda Savitch’ (By Karen Campbell, Globe Correspondent)
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