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Bookish: TESLA, TERRORISTS,
and SOME SPRING PEEKS (6#) -

Synopsis: A terrorist bomb explodes in Grand Central Station. On the same day there is a hit-and-run death in Greenwich Connecticut. The police detective investigating the auto incident comes to believe that the young man who was run down was not a random victim, but the target of a killer. And the detective wonders if the vehicular homicide is connected to the terrorist attack in New York City.

In Otto Penzler's latest Mystery column at the NY Sun, he reviews The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross. He says this one is packed with lots of plot twists and gives it a thumbs-up as a thriller.

# Nikola Tesla is becoming a Modern Cult Figure! Paul Constant reviews the novel The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt and a few other books. He's got yer Tesla books on tap in Seattle... woowoo...

# For Book Worms: In The Library at Night, Alberto Mangel lovingly explores the enchanted domain of books, both ancient and modern. Review by Eric Ormsby.

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Spring Previews and Roundups:

# In his roundup, Fiction's Travels, Benjamin Lytal grabs an armful of selections and covers a lot of territory which I won't even attempt to recap here. But at the end, he mentions some other new books to keep an eye out for this season, including: a Tobias Wolff by the end of March and a Jhumpa Lahiri in April.

# A Spring Book Preview
by Barbar Hoffert at the Boston Phoenix.

# Some Spring Book Picks
by Giles Harvey at the Village Voice -
which is not as good as it used to be.

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