10 At-a-Glance Book Reviews for March
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In the Land of Believers: An Outsider's Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church
By Gina Welch
352 pages; Metropolitan
A Berkeley-bred Jewish journalist spends a year undercover in Rev. Jerry Falwell church, and comes away changed.
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House Rules
By Jodi Picoult
544 pages; Atria
The popular author brings together murder, the justice system, and Asperger's syndrome in her 17th typically topical title.
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The Ask
By Sam Lipsyte
304 pages; FSG
An off-kilter and hilarious novel about work, war, sex, class, children—and Benjamin Franklin.
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Angelology
By Danielle Trussoni
464 pages; Viking Angels are the new vampires in this provocative page-turner about a convent and a secret covenant.
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The Husbands and Wives Club: A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group
By Laurie Abraham
304 pages; Touchstone
Want to know what really happens in couples' therapy? Be careful what you wish for.
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Another Life Altogether
By Elaine Beale
416 pages; Spiegel & Grau This coming-of-age novel about a British girl who dares to be different is from a first-time author who won the 2007 Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange contest.
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The Autobiography of an Execution
By David R. Dow
288 pages; Twelve
A riveting memoir by a thinking, feeling lawyer whose clients are on death row.
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Hush
By Kate White
352 pages; Harper
The first stand-alone thriller from the best-selling series author (and Cosmopolitan editor in chief) is about a soon-to-be-divorced marketing consultant's dangerous one-night stand.
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The Story of Stuff
How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health—and a Vision for Change
By Annie Leonard
352 pages; Free Press
The title says it all. Sound advice for scary times.
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Lift
By Kelly Corrigan
96 pages; Voice A bighearted guide to life by the author of the 2008 best-seller
The Middle Place, written as a letter to her young daughters.
From the
March 2010 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
