...difference in their responses is at the heart of this technically impressive, heartbreaking novel about how failure to act can be “the sorriest thing ever.’’ Heller McAlpin reviews books regularly for newspapers.By: Heller McAlpin|Date: Sep 2, 2009

...selective and taken an editor's pencil to his manuscript. But there is also something apt about a book that is as vast and unbounded as the brave and overwhelming new world it describes. Heller McAlpin reviews books regularly for newspapers.By: Heller McAlpin|Date: Nov 11, 2007

... In ''Losing Mum and Pup,'' son offers fond, irreverent portrait of William F. and Patricia Buckley (By Heller McAlpin, Boston Globe) Shelf Life Books about growing your own food (By Jan Gardner, Boston Globe) THE FIND When...

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