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Eclectic array of books a holiday gift for readers

The good news in the publishing industry is that books, whether the old-fashioned or the new-fangled kind, are continuing to attract the attention of readers, which explains why there are always so many gift-giving opportunities for the holidays. As Chanukah approaches, here is a book for every taste:

Casanova bio has irresistible charms of its own

Author and journalist Laurence Bergreen is the accomplished biographer of a long list of famous people, ranging from Columbus and Marco Polo to Al Capone and Louis Armstrong.

Jewish newspaper puts best Yiddish fiction forward

If there is one fact about Isaac Bashevis Singer that signifies his remarkable achievement as a writer, it is that the Nobel Prize winner started out in America as a contributor of short pieces to the Forward, the largest Yiddish-language newspaper in the world and the newspaper of record for Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia in the early to mid-20th century.

A fearless plunge into why we’re forever ‘Haunted’

Halloween is almost here, and the time is right for Leo Braudy’s latest work of cultural history and criticism, irresistibly titled “Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds” (Yale University Press).

The Nazi PR machine

One of the great mysteries of history is how a country as civilized as Germany was persuaded to embrace a man as coarse and cruel as Adolf Hitler. The answer, according to Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, is marketing.

A plan for autumn author readings

This fall brings an especially lively assortment of books and authors to Southern California bookstores, ranging from masters of literary fiction to members of the glitterati, and at least one music superstar whose book-signing promises to draw a record-breaking crowd.

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