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Holiday gift guide: Beauty and bounty between two covers Having trouble finding just the right gift for the history buff, sports fan or world traveler on your list? Rowling creates yet more magic in 'Bard' Dump the Xanax and grab J.K. Rowling's Tales of Beedle the Bard. This charming little book is the best anti-anxiety medication ... New J.K. Rowling book goes on sale around world The latest magical tome by J.K. Rowling has started to fly off bookstore shelves. Rowling was launching The Tales of Beedle the ... Book Buzz: 'Lion' roars; holiday helpers; daddy's 'Home' Judging from the president-elect's reading list, you'd think books about Lincoln and FDR would be hot. But it's another president ... New in paper: Grafton's 'T,' 'Provence A-Z' T Is for Trespass by Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99, fiction, reprint). P.I. Kinsey Millhone must protect her elderly neighbor from ... Holiday guide: Gift books Everything you ever wanted to know about the famous New York City Christmas tree is right here in this beautifully illustrated ...	The 10 Best Books of 2008 The Book Review picks the best works from the last year. Books of The Times: A Group Portrait With an Unflinching Focus Philip Hensher's new novel is a haunting, loving, trenchantly grotesque story about two families in Sheffield, England, over the course of two politically fraught decades. Publishers Announce Staff Cuts Random House announced a sweeping reorganization aimed at trimming costs, while Simon & Schuster said it was cutting 35 jobs. Books of The Times: The Days of Their Lives: Lesbians Star in Funny Pages This anthology of Alison Bechdel's weekly comic strip follows an articulate group of lesbians through more than 20 years of daily life, with plenty of sex and politics along the way. Houghton Mifflin Publisher Resigns Becky Saletan, publisher of the adult trade division, will leave next week in a sign of further unraveling at the publisher. Books of The Times: It's Still Making the World Go 'Round Niall Ferguson's latest book, "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World," went to press in May 2008, but it shrewdly anticipates many aspects of the current financial crisis. Books of The Times: A Media Mogul With Relentless Moxie Michael Wolff has written a supercilious yet star-struck portrait of Rupert Murdoch, the planet's most notorious press baron.	Original Sins In this novel of the 17th century, Morrison performs her deepest excavation yet into America's history and exhumes our twin original sins: the enslavement of Africans and the near extermination of Native Americans. Chance and Circumstance Malcolm Gladwell says success depends not only on brains and drive, but on where we come from — and what we do about it. 'The Doves Were Right' How McGeorge Bundy, a key architect of the Vietnam War, began an agonized search to understand himself. Exit Wounds In his first story collection, set mostly in Alaska, David Vann exorcises demons born from the suicide of his father. A Passage From India The novelist Amitav Ghosh reimagines the lives of Indian peasants on the eve of the Opium Wars. Gunsmoke A fictionalized account of the short life and squalid death of Henry McCarty, a k a Billy the Kid. The Sophisticated Table An exploration of the 17th-century shift in French cooking, when chefs rejected pseudomedical dictates to emphasize a more novel merit of food: its taste. A World of a Different Color A colorfully detailed analysis of why horses, paradoxically, thrived in the age of industrialization. Mayflower Power Sarah Vowell's pop history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony hums along with chipper personal details and genial talk-show banter. It's also really annoying. Cycles of Doom How government managers encouraged inflation in the 1960s and '70s and led the American economy into recession.

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