The Vatican investigates all God's creatures, green and small.

The central character in "On Hallowed Ground," Robert M. Poole's gracefully written, often deeply affecting history, cannot speak. However, Poole succeeds grandly in giving voice to the more than 600 acres of what virtually all Americans consider sacred soil.

My attitudes toward deployment flipped upside down.

To hear President Obama tell it, he's been busy creating jobs since taking office. The $787 billion stimulus package, he said last winter, would "save or create 3.5 million jobs." The White House is touting reports from recipients of stimulus funds asserting that they have created or saved 640,000...

The author of "Life and Death in Shanghai," on the life she led while telling her story.

What an election can't really change.

What Obama and Hu Jintao should really talk about.

Pawn shops of Las Vegas, the museums of missed dreams.

From fledgling prodigy to winner of all four tennis major titles, Andre Agassi produces an honest, substantive, insightful autobiography.

In "Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife," Francine Prose explains some of the many sides of this remarkable story.

As Melvin I. Urofsky reminds us in this strapping biography, even before going on the High Court in 1916, Brandeis had lent his name to something durable: the Brandeis brief.

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9 MONDAY 10:30 A.M. Children's author David A. Carter reads from and discusses "White Noise: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages" at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919.

The debate about health-care reform seems to be ignoring a significant group of Americans: international travelers.

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