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Crime pays quite well for Patricia Cornwell Twelve of Patricia Cornwell's books have hit No. 1 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, and pricey toys are the spoils of ... Holiday books gift guide: Cookbooks Take one famous chef (Batali), add a heaping dose of celebrity (Paltrow) and season heavily with photos, recipes and visits to ... Holiday gift guide: Children's books Toys R Us and other retailers may not embrace this funny cautionary tale, but it's perfect for our new economy, or what's left ... Holiday books gift guide: Best sellers The author of Mystic River turns to historical fiction in a sweeping saga set mostly in Boston and climaxing with the violent ... Publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt quits The senior vice president and publisher of adult trade books at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has quit, effective Dec. 10. 'American Lion' is a roaring portrait of Andrew Jackson Old Hickory, sex symbol? Jon Meacham's American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House brings alive a profoundly flawed but ...	The 10 Best Books of 2008 The Book Review picks the best works from the last year. ArtsBeat: Major Reorganization at Random House The shakeup at the world's largest publisher of consumer books includes the resignations of two top executives. 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. H. N. Friedlaender, Bibliophile, Dies at 95 Mr. Friedlaender was a book-loving lawyer and financial adviser whose collection of early printed books caused a stir in bibliophilic circles when it went to auction.	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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