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Book Reviews

• The Animal Wife (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas)
  - an abduction disrupts a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer band
• Birth of the Chess Queen (Marilyn Yalom)
  - powerful women and chess in medieval Europe
• **Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century (Fernand Braudel)
  - a social and economic history of the shaping of the modern world
• Clear and Present Danger (Tom Clancy)
  - for afficionados of military hardware; not my cup of tea
• Dark Provenance (Michael David Anthony)
  - a mystery set amidst English Church politics
• The First Eagle (Tony Hillerman)
  - Jim Chee finds a Hopi eagle poacher next to a dead police officer
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  - eight science fiction short stories
• The Golden Ocean (Patrick O'Brian)
  - the son of a poor Irish clergyman sails around the world with Anson
• The Great Arc (John Keay)
  The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
• *The Historical Jesus (John Dominic Crossan)
  The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
• The Immaculate Deception (Iain Pears)
  - a mystery of Italian art and politics
• In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs (Christopher De Bellaigue)
  A Memoir of Iran
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Tom Shippey)
• *Legends (Terry Pratchett et al.)
  - short fiction by five leading fantasy novelists
• *The Mediterranean (Fernand Braudel)
  And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
• Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Peter Høeg)
  - an atmospheric thriller set in Copenhagen and Greenland
• The Monsters and the Critics (J.R.R. Tolkien)
  And Other Essays
• No Logo (Naomi Klein)
  Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
• Proust and the Squid (Maryanne Wolf)
  The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
• The Road to Middle-Earth (Tom Shippey)
• A Song for Arbonne (Guy Gavriel Kay)
• *A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin)
  A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords
• *The Tao is Silent (Raymond M. Smullyan)
• Who Killed Jesus? (John Dominic Crossan)
  Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus