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Books of The Times

'Sashenka'

By SIMON MONTEFIORE
Reviewed by DINITIA SMITH

A novel of the Russian Revolution and a young aristocrat turned perfect Communist housewife — and double agent — from the author of the biography “Young Stalin.”

Newly Released Books

By AMY VIRSHUP

New titles by J. K. Rowling and Patricia Cornwell, a talking-dog book, a historical novel of Boston and not one, but two novels based in Florida in which tarot cards play a part.

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New Editor at Random House

By MOTOKO RICH

Susan Kamil, the editorial director of Dial Press, was appointed editor-in-chief of the Random House imprint, while the Doubleday and Broadway imprints announced layoffs.

Books of The Times

'Frontier Medicine'

By DAVID DARY
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER

Bear attacks. Syphilis. Bullet wounds. Malaria. Scalpings. As David Dary’s new book illustrates, there were many ways to die in frontier America, plenty of them gruesome.

Good for the Goose: An English Christmas

By FLORENCE FABRICANT

In “Elizabeth David’s Christmas,” recipe after recipe looks to France, Italy, Spain and even North Africa for inspiration.

• Times Topics: Christmas Recipes

The Pour

A Good Read Before You Sip

By ERIC ASIMOV

No matter the condition of the economy, the state of the world or the weather, the annual holiday flood of books on wine gushes forth unimpeded.

Books of The Times

'Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master'

By MICHAEL SRAGOW
Reviewed by JEANINE BASINGER

Michael Sragow puts Victor Fleming, the director of “The Wizard of Oz” and “Gone With the Wind, " in perspective, giving him his rightful due without falsely exaggerating his importance.

ArtsBeat Blog

Layoffs and Restructuring at Macmillan

By MOTOKO RICH

Macmillan, the company that operates Farrar, Straus and Giroux, St. Martin’s Press and Henry Holt, laid off about 4 percent of its staff.

Books of The Times

'Panic'

By MICHAEL LEWIS
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN

“Panic” carries the cautionary message that the wisdom brought by a financial collapse is wisdom that rarely sticks.

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An open book in German with black and white drawings.

Before the invention and adoption of the printing press, almost all books were copied by hand, making books expensive and comparatively rare.

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an e-book.

Books may also refer to a literature work, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature.

In novels, a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, etc).

A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile, a bibliophilist, or a philobiblist, or, more informally, a bookworm.

A store where books are bought and sold is a bookstore or bookshop. Books can also be borrowed from libraries or obtained for reading through the practice of BookCrossing.