http://www.post-gazette.com/books/ Book reviews, articles, Book Editor Bob Hoover's Sunday columns en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:07:28 -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/12345/1282747-44.stm?cmpid=books.xml Are you a sports kid? Or a kid who loves facts? Or one of those kids who is always asking "Why?" Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282562-388.stm?cmpid=books.xml The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet returns to Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. Plus, Ellen Goodman lecture and more. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282643-109.stm?cmpid=books.xml Mitchell James Kaplan picked up the new edition of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' to re-read. He was struck with awe. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282645-370.stm?cmpid=books.xml "The Silent History" takes ebooks to a new interactive level, and the Robots for iPad app explores the world of robots. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282808-148.stm?cmpid=books.xml Churchill coined the phrase. Anne Applebaum brings deeper understanding to the tragedy that its reality brought to those living behind it. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282809-148.stm?cmpid=books.xml Ruth Rendell (as Barbara Vine) tells a tale of two eras, with especial elan. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12344/1282833-148.stm?cmpid=books.xml 'Defender of the Realm': The final volume of the late William Manchester's epic biography of Churchill is ably finished by Paul Reid. Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12343/1282681-44.stm?cmpid=books.xml Children's author Sharon Creech speaks Sunday at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Oakland. Sat, 8 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12342/1282338-44.stm?cmpid=books.xml This year's Nobel Prize in literature winner, Mo Yan, defended censorship as something as necessary as airport security checks. Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500