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Neil Sheehan's "A Fiery Peace in a Cold War"

The son of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev recalled his father lamenting the cost of Russia's first intercontinental ballistic missiles, asking, "What will we do, we'll be without pants."

  • Book looks at Kansas through all four seasons

    "A Kansas Year" by Mike Blair (University Press of Kansas, 240 pages, $24.95)

  • Dracula a romantic hero in sequel

    "Dracula: The Un-Dead" by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt (Dutton, 424 pages, $26.95)

  • Before the 'age of lead'

    "The Children's Book: A Novel" by A.S. Byatt (Alfred A. Knopf, 680 pages, $26.95)

  • Latest Connelly outing falls flat

    "Nine Dragons" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Co., 384 pages, $27.99)

  • Truth casualty in Tillman case

    "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" by Jon Krakauer (Doubleday, 386 pages, $27.95)

  • A flood without water

    "The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 431 pages, $26.95)

  • Publishers Weekly best sellers

    1. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown

  • 'Spooner' unfolds in three stages

    "Spooner" by Pete Dexter (Grand Central Publishing, 469 pages, $26.99)

  • 'Strength' thought-provoking

    "Strength in What Remains" by Tracy Kidder (Random House, 304 pages, $26) —This is the story of how an African medical student named Deo fled the violence in his native Burundi and escaped to the United States. The early pages tell of his flight from Africa (the wealthy father of a fellow student paid for his ticket), his arrival in New York City and his effort to survive there alone, with no money or English skills. He earned $15 for 12- hour days delivering groceries and slept at first in an abandoned tenement and later in Central Park.

  • Multiples no problem for most readers

    Last month when I wrote about sticking to one book at a time — one novel, anyway — I asked for your thoughts on the matter. Judging from the response, those of us who are "single-bookers" are in the minority. Most people who wrote in said they have at least two books going at a time, and they offered some interesting philosophies on the subject.

  • Imperfect 'Exiles'

    "Exiles in the Garden" by Ward Just (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 277 pages, $25)

  • War novel mixes in a love story

    "The Evolution of Shadows" by Jason Quinn Malott (Unbridled Books, 272 pages, $14.95 paper)

  • A 'Lost' lecture

    "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Doubleday, 509 pages, $29.95)

  • Private eye V.I. is back with a bang

    "Hardball" by Sara Paretsky (Putnam, 446 pages, $26.95)

  • Evangelical author in Wichita

    Donald Miller, author of the bestselling book "Blue Like Jazz" and the new "A Million Miles in a Thousand Days" will discuss the relevance of Christian faith in everyday life Saturday.

  • A life well loved

    "True Compass: A Memoir" by Edward M. Kennedy (Twelve, 532 pages, $35)

  • Once won't be enough for 'Twice'

  • Hoard times

    "Homer & Langley" by E.L. Doctorow (Random House, 208 pages, $26)

  • Reading: the new counterculture

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