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BOOK GROUPIE: Going and Sonnenblick offer parenting tools

ANITA MILLER

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As the parent of four children ages 13 and under, I am painfully aware that the world is not always a perfect place. While I try to protect my children from the world’s harshest realities — things like disease, disaster, inequality and... Full story

BOOK GROUPIE: Luttrell's survivor story of honor brings tears

Anita Miller

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For days now, I’ve been mourning the loss of three men I never knew. The men I mourn died years ago, in June 2005. They were Navy SEALs on a mission in Afghanistan, part of a four-man team assigned to locate Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. Their... Full story

BOOK GROUPIE: Giving Pulitzer winners another chance

ANITA MILLER

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I used to avoid Pulitzer Prize winners like I currently avoid the Woodmen and Academy intersection. The Pulitzers seemed as congested with analogies, symbolism and words as the intersection is with vehicles. Last year, though, I read two recent... Full story

BOOK GROUPIE: It was a good year for reading

ANITA MILLER

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The Book Groupie column is just over a year old. I probably celebrated the anniversary by reading a book. In fact, I read a lot of books in 2009. Somewhere near 300, according to my best estimation. And more than 50 of those books were featured in... Full story

BOOK GROUPIE: Mary Kay Andrews' “The Fixer Upper” better than she thought

Anita Miller

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When I was a kid, I loved watching “Three’s Company” on television. It was a popular sitcom about three roommates who were always involved in impossible scenarios. A few minutes into each episode, I knew exactly how the episode... Full story

BOOK GROUPIE: Mitchard brings her familiar characters back

By ANITA MILLER

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About 13 years ago, I feel in love with a book titled “The Deep End of the Ocean,” by Jacquelyn Mitchard. Ever since then, I’ve been hoping for a reunion with the book’s characters. I wanted to find out how they were aging... Full story

BOOK GROUPIE: Wiersema's novel better than its beginning

ANITA MILLER

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Robert J. Wiersema’s “Before I Wake” is filled with all sorts of ingredients I don’t like — a young girl who’s dying, a husband who’s cheating, an immoral spiritual figure — and, yet, the book is an... Full story

BOOK GROUPIE: Take Baldacci and Coben along on the treadmill

BY ANITA MILLER

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World-renowned thriller author David Baldacci is helping me lose weight.  No, Baldacci isn’t counting sit ups for me, though I’d probably do more if that was the case. Baldacci’s latest novel sat on my treadmill’s book... Full story

BOOK GROUPIE: Find yourself in Elizabeth Strout’s 'Olive'

LINDA NAVARRO

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If you pick up a book titled “Olive Kitteridge,” you would expect the book to be about a character with that name, right? But Elizabeth Strout’s 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner is about much more than Olive; it’s about all of us.... Full story

BOOK GROUPIE: Obmascik an inspiration to go climb some Fourteeners

LINDA NAVARRO

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If you’ve ever had the feeling Pikes Peak is taunting you, you are not alone. Pikes Peak is one of 54 peaks classified by the Colorado Mountain Club as Fourteeners. Each of these mountains dares people to climb them, and every year about a... Full story

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