http://www.post-gazette.com/books/ Book reviews, articles, Book Editor Bob Hoover's Sunday columns en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:29:25 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014873-44.stm?cmpid=books.xml A gala launch of "The Art Institute of Pittsburgh," an illustrated history of the 88-year old college, will be held in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of historic photographs, films, art and artifacts at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 11 at the Institute, 420 Blvd. of the Allies, Downtown. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014877-34.stm?cmpid=books.xml Robyn Gioia, a fifth-grade teacher at Bolles School, a private school north of St. Augustine, has a mission: Spread the word about the nation's first Thanksgiving. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014894-44.stm?cmpid=books.xml 1. The "Lacuna." Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $26.99. 2. "The Help." Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95. 3. "Under the Dome." Stephen King, Scribner, $35. 4. "The Lost Symbol." Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014896-148.stm?cmpid=books.xml Stephen King's "Under the Dome" is so richly detailed -- some will say overly detailed at nearly 1,100 pages -- that you come to know the people of Chester's Mill, Maine, the way you know an Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014897-74.stm?cmpid=books.xml Thousands are buying "Going Rogue" because they believe Sarah Palin is Ronald Reagan returned to Earth in a dress. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014898-148.stm?cmpid=books.xml As readers of John Irving know, terrible things happen to his characters; not just terrible things but comically far-fetched terrible things. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014899-148.stm?cmpid=books.xml Franklin Roosevelt probably engendered more words about his career than any other 20th-century president, but I wager Woodrow Wilson isn't far behind. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015471-176.stm?cmpid=books.xml A college student home for the weekend might expect a warm bed and a hot meal. That had to wait for Addie Witt, who drove east Friday night from Ohio's Otterbein College to join her father, Kerry Witt, on a chilly parking lot sleepover next to the cinder block wall of a Sam's Club in Washington County. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015116-44.stm?cmpid=books.xml "The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900" By Domenic Bradbury with photographs by Richard Powers Thames & Hudson, $65 The world's most influential houses are in this Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014867-369.stm?cmpid=books.xml I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Sara Pennypacker, a New York Times best-selling author of 11 books for children. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014637-58.stm?cmpid=books.xml It is a measure of Sarah Palin's popularity that her appearance Saturday at a Sam's Club in South Strabane needs no advertising. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014667-44.stm?cmpid=books.xml The board of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh said yesterday that it would be willing to place a moratorium on the planned closure of several library branches, contingent on getting short-term and long-term funding commitments in place before its next board meeting on Dec. 14. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500