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Sunday, July 9, 2006

The following books are scheduled to be reviewed this week in Style:

Lemons Never Lie , by Donald E. Westlake writing as Richard Stark, and Boot Tracks , by Matthew F. Jones. Two hard-boiled thrillers. Reviewed by Patrick Anderson.

Real Food: What to Eat and Why , by Nina Planck. Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley.

In the Best Interests of Baseball? The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig , by Andrew Zimbalist. Reviewed by John Greenya.

Rose of No Man's Land , by Michelle Tea, and As If Love Were Enough , by Anne Taylor Fleming. Two novels about the fraught relationships between women and girls. Reviewed by Julia Livshin.

The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son's Memoir , by Howard Reich. A woman survives the Holocaust only to break down from post-traumatic stress disorder many years later. Reviewed by Carolyn See.



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Though too cursory to work as an intro to the Gospels, Mary Gordon's "Reading Jesus" should appeal to anyone who wants to wrestle with the problems and paradoxes of the New Testament.

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