BOOK NEWS
Secret talks with President Clinton
A new book, tentatively titled “Wrestling History: The Bill Clinton Tapes,” is on tap from Simon & Schuster for sometime late next year.
The book is based on nearly 80 secret conversations in the White House between the former president and historian Taylor Branch over eight years.
Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “America in the King Years, 1954-1968,” said, “I’m not calling this a biography of Clinton or a history of the administration. It is what it was like to live through it that way, sitting alone with him, talking about the presidency as he saw it, right in the moment.” | The New York Times
FIRST LINE
Spanish Dagger by Susan Wittig Albert
It’s possible to solve a mystery and still not know all the answers. It’s possible to know in detail what happened to Colin Fowler and Lucita Sanchez last week. It’s possible to know how it was done, and even who did it and why. But knowing an answer to any question doesn’t mean that you know the answer. And knowing the truth doesn’t mean that there’s no unfinished business. There are always pieces of the puzzle that don’t quite fit, threads of a story that can’t be neatly tied, answers that can’t be matched with the questions that still linger.”
MOST BORROWED
From libraries in the U.S., for week of March 26, 2007
Fiction
1. Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult
2. Whitethorn Woods | Maeve Binchey
3. Shopaholic and Baby | Sophie Kinsella
4. Step on a Crack | James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
5. Sisters | Danielle Steel
Nonfiction
1. The Glass Castle | Jeanette Walls
2. Running With Scissors | Augusten Burroughs
3. Marley and Me | John Grogan
4. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century | Thomas L. Friedman
5. The Innocent Man | John Grisham
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