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This weekFICTION Bay Area Last weekWeeks on list 1A MOST WANTED MAN, John le Carré (Scribner; 336 pages; $28): A man claiming to be a Chechen Muslim seeks asylum in Hamburg.15 2THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, Shaffer and Barrows (The Dial...

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Titles recently published in paperback: FICTION: The Delivery Room (Counterpoint; 399 pages; $14.95) by Sylvia Brownrigg: The Berkeley author's novel, set in London, centers on a therapist's sessions with her patients. The World According to Bertie (Anchor...

A new exhibit at California's Huntington Library is opening up the work of the giants of science. Colorful star charts, close-up lunar sketches and dog-eared books reveal the world as seen by the eyes of Newton, Galileo and Copernicus.

Get a jump on some holiday shopping with some recommendations for the readers in your life.

Oversized in every sense of the word, this comic collection of five classic tales -- all tied together by a top-hatted, polka-dot cravatted, waistcoat-wearing wolf -- abounds in graphic guffaws.

7 P.M. Karren Alenier , author of the poetry collection Looking for Divine Transportation and a director of Washington's literary organization, The Word Works, and prize-winning poet Kevin Prufer , author of National Anthem and Fallen from a Chariot as well as the editor of PLEIADES: A Journal of...

Hamilton's Blessing by John Steel Gordon takes on the subject of public debt. The concept was developed in the 16th century by the Dutch during their fight for independence from Spain. Steele covers the subject all the way up through the US government's assumptions of the war debts of the ...

Before Barack Obama takes the oath, he should read The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath, Robert J. Samuelson's timely history of how good political intentions stoked an inflationary hell in the 1970s - and how only bold, painful action smothered the flames.

In 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein took portraits of just about every citizen of Oxford, Iowa (population 676), from the doughnut maker to the Pentecostal minister (and buck-skinner), the farmer to the insurance salesman, the husband-and-wife Ford dealers, the schoolkids, babies, moms, dads, teachers, mail clerks, the barkeep, the rodeo rider, the deer hunter, the bank janitor, the trucker, the county attorney.