Christian Science Monitor | Books News Archive
Reviews for thinking people, from the Thursday book section of the Monitor.
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- Women and hoops: an uneasy truce
- 'Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy'
- America: land of spiritual hunger
- Art makes his world go round
- Cuba: longed for, but never quite attained
- He should have guessed wrong
- A star of 1980s fiction tries for a comeback
- 'In the Shadow of the Law'
- More readers discover the 'best unknown novelist'
- Native Americans - lost and found
- Politics, purses, poetry: the letters of a poet
- In search of love, on the heels of a great writer
- Music adds spice to cooking
- Book blogs' buzz grows louder
- A half century later, a full look at Matisse
- A love letter to the novel - complete with reading list
- Whose order will prevail in US courts?
- He was a giant in the world of college football
- Wartime memoirs by women in vogue
- This remake of 'Howards End' is a true 'Beauty'
- Book roundup
- Truly, madly, deeply American
- Science and politics: a dangerous mix
- A warrior fights for her Texas town
- Is living alone the new happy ending?
- He's slow to win our affection
- How to feed the literary crowd
- 'City of Fallen Angels'
- Mystery fiction
- Mao: the ugly reality behind an icon
- Truly a murder most foul
- A writer's journey through grief
- Poetry for a world of unknown listeners
- Teenage symphonies, 3 minutes long
- A nation of sidewalk publishers
- Book club struggling? Invite an author.
- Page turners
- The men behind the mop tops
- Dark musing by the Irish sea
- Seeking answers (and adventure) in Bible lands
- One man's New York: funny, ugly, fascinating
- The capitalists behind the Big Bang of America's economy
- As young lives intersect, a tale takes shape
- Two series that are fortunate events
- Good reads for 2005
- Kids and animals: a magic mix
- She is Ruby: Hear her roar!
- An exuberant trip to the zoo
- Book roundup
- Iraq war books do a quickstep into print
- What Penelope was up to when Odysseus was out
- The rich - captured between the frames
- They walked across Africa. This is what they saw.
- The photographs that are closest to home
- Fresh look at a master of American photography
- Simplicity and clarity define a collection
- The many shapes and forms of faith
- Women who would not be ignored
- He founded a church and stirred a young nation
- Rabbit runs - straight to the fine arts exhibit
- A remarkable tale of life with the reindeer
- The cold war: how it began, why it ended
- The man who knew how to be president
- How Iraq looks to one on the ground
- How did a nice girl like JuJu end up in jail?
- In the presence of greatness - and hubris
- The trouble with this book
- Book roundup
- How would Sherlock Holmes fare in real life?
- The goliath that reshaped America
- From feminism to fairy tales: the musings of Margaret Atwood
- Dark memories elicited from the era of apartheid
- What we can learn from Mary Magdalene
- How true is that memoir?
- Hearts in search of home
- Yet another way to look at Lincoln
- A tiny world that teems with life
- 'A romantic vision, conceived in Spirit'
- Why can't money and women get along?
- He traveled to Mecca in search of himself
- Finally: a Sept. 11 story without the clichés
- Recalling the glory days of black baseball
- Some top 2006 awards conferred
- The many muses of Amadeus
- Love and society among the ashes of Manhattan
- The hero that time forgot
- In search of a land that may not exist
- A vain but witty struggle against the rising ills of consumerism
- What Russia's soldiers suffered
- The killer who was 'hunted like a dog'
- In heartland, search for a deeper faith
- Tough talk about oil
- How an ugly bird came to own a writer
- Iran as his father lived it
- Lobsters, John McCain, and 50-cent words
- Finding God in unexpected places
- The struggle to be English
- The (foolhardy?) quest for Timbuktu
- Evidence mounts on climate change
- A primer on March Madness

