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REVIEW: ‘Home Front’ shows life behind the yellow ribbon
Female pilot goes to war in Kristin Hannah novel
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BOOKS ROUNDUP: Broun signing copies of ‘Mandela’
Ken Broun, a UNC law professor, former Chapel Hill mayor, and expert on South Africa law, has written “Saving Nelson Mandela” (Oxford University Press), his account of what is known as the “Rivonia” Trial. After Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1963, he was sentenced to death. Using interviews with trial participants and transcripts of the proceed...
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REVIEW: The down side of immortality
The best science fiction examines the underside of human progress – how a potentially beneficial breakthrough might create unintended or malevolent consequences. Drew Magary’s first novel, “The Postmortal,” is a well-crafted, engaging, page-turning saga that examines what might happen if science found a cure for aging.
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A second chance at ‘Manchild’
Claude Brown’s 1965 memoir about growing up in Harlem reissued
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