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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the November 20th issue include:


Last Words, by George Carlin with Tony Hendra. Free Press. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "...at turns biting and touching and often both". Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $12.95. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"As one of America's most pre-eminent comedians, with 50 years worth of material and appearances on the international comedy circuit, George Carlin saw it all and made fun of most of it. Blending his signature acerbic humor with never before told stories from his own life, Last Words is part comedy routine, part reflection, and all original. Carlin's journey to stardom began in the rough and tumble neighborhoods of New York in the 1940s and '50s, where class and culture wars planted the seeds for some of his earliest material. Carlin describes his major influences as an up and coming comic, talking about the origins of some of his most famous stand up routines including the notorious Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television. Sparing no detail, Carlin describes his life and career, discussing his own battle with substance abuse, his turbulent relationships with his family, and the unique worldview that informed so much of his stand up." - books.simonandschuster.com.
$9.99 or less alternative: Another revealing (and entertaining) celebrity autobiography, American on Purpose, by Craig Ferguson.

Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro. Knopf. SHORT STORIES. EW's slant: "Too Much Happiness doesn't disappoint. It dazzles". Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $14.27. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Ten superb new stories by the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories uncover the 'deep-holes' in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy’s disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad... With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives." - from the hardcover edition.
$9.99 or less alternative: Runaway, Munro's earlier short story collection.

Changing My Mind, by Zadie Smith. Penguin. ESSAYS. EW's slant: "... essays on literature [that] reflect smart close readings and a refreshing willingness to grapple with subjectivity..." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $12.94. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction... Split into four sections - Reading, Being, Seeing, and Feeling - Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith's unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays - some published here for the first time - on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: Smith's debut novel White Teeth.

Top Secret Recipes Unlocked, by Todd Wilbur. Plume. NOVEL. EW's slant: "[Wilbur's] problem isn't that the recipes aren't good enough, it's that they're too good." Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.Optimized for larger screens.
"The kitchen clone recipe king is back... Wilbur takes readers behind the scenes, revealing the key ingredients in some of our favorite foods such as Starbucks' Peppermint Brownie, Krispy Kreme's original glazed donuts, Panera Bread's cranberry walnut bagel and Wendy's Garden Sensations Manadarin Chicken Salad. Forget takeout-with these fun recipes and blueprints, all using ingredients you can buy at your local supermarket, you can re-create your favorite restaurant signature dishes right in your own kitchen for a lot less!" - Amazon.


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