Asensi delivers fun in new thriller (AP via Yahoo! News)

"Everything Under the Sky" (HarperCollins Publisher, 387 pages, $25.95), by Matilde Asensi: It's a good thing that the gambling, opium-addicted, prostitute-loving husband of Elvira De Poulain died. She would otherwise be stripped of an adventure that is so engrossing it could compel the reader to skip meals and ignore chores in a mad dash to read the book's ending.

Bob Ney Rewrites History Of His Role In The Abramoff Scandal (CBS News)

Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), fresh from 17 months in federal custody, is busy trying to rewrite his role in the Jack Abramoff scandal. Ney is trying to portray himself as some kind of a victim of a vengeful Bush administration, but the facts don't jibe with spurious tale.

Doing the mob mambo (Creative Loafing Charlotte)

Gambling, guns and sex in pre-Castro Havana... By John Grooms We must be in some kind of golden age of popular history writing, considering that some of the most engaging and insightful books of the past decade have been true tales we needed to know: Isaac's Storm and Devil In the White City by Erik Larson, Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden, Antony Beevor's series of books on 20th century ...

How Time Flies 08/28/08 (The Pantagraph)

How Time Flies for August 28, 2008: 100 years ago Aug. 28, 1908: Ezra M. Prince, 77, died yesterday at Brokaw (later BroMenn) Hospital. He had been ill. He was active in the historical community for many years. (His writings on local history endure today.)

Customer Service (Brandon Sun)

It's a good thing that the gambling, opium-addicted, prostitute-loving husband of Elvira De Poulain died. She would otherwise be stripped of an adventure that is so engrossing it could compel the reader to skip meals and ignore chores in a mad dash to read the book's ending.