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'Columbine' Seeks to Explain the Inexplicablenew

Columbine is a marvel of structure, empathy, and insight, flickering between the run-up to that horrible day in Littleton and its complex, agonizing aftermath.
The Georgia Straight  |  Brian Lynch  |  06-08-2009  |  Nonfiction

'The Lost City of Z' Maps an Amazon Mysterynew

As David Grann describes him in The Lost City of Z, British explorer Percy Fawcett was the last of the Victorian era's hard-bitten adventurers, a man who waded "into uncharted realms with little more than a machete, a compass, and an almost divine sense of purpose."
The Georgia Straight  |  Brian Lynch  |  03-23-2009  |  Nonfiction

Inside Bush's Brainnew

The word tragedy in the title of Jacob Weisberg's new book takes on more than one meaning as you make your way through this brisk, eye-opening psychological study of George W. Bush.
The Georgia Straight  |  Brian Lynch  |  03-21-2008  |  Nonfiction

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