Susan Inman's memoir is a must read for any family faced with schizophrenia, and for our health system, too.

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'After Her Brain Broke' (in Tyee Books) (The Tyee)

A woman found guilty of murdering her ex-lover used a rare poison which has not featured in a British court case since 1882.

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Woman used rare poison in curry to kill ex-lover (Daily Telegraph)

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library contains the principal rare books and literary manuscripts of Yale University and serves as a center for research by students, faculty, and other scholars, whether affiliated with Yale or not.

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FMS: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (WNPR Connecticut Public Radio)

Iris Murdoch, a prodigiously inventive and idiosyncratic British writer whose 26 novels offered lively plots, complex characters and intellectual speculation, died yesterday at a nursing home in Oxford, England. She was 79 and had Alzheimer's disease.

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Iris Murdoch, Novelist and Philosopher, Is Dead (New York Times)

So many years.

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Theatre veterans mark rare reunion (The Sault Star)

A Southeast Texas man had the wake up call of a lifetime last year.

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1/18 Troy Allan Inspires Others (KBTV Beaumont)

“Life on the frontier proved stark, gritty, and brutal,” writes James Pylant in his book, “Sins of the Pioneers: Crimes & Scandals in a Small Texas Town” (Jacobus Books, $15.95 paperback).Pylant focuses on one county, Erath, and particularly its county seat, Stephenville, in detailing some of the more compelling crimes and characters there as the community struggled for respectability in the ...

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Dromgoole: Life was tough in Texas frontier town (Abilene Reporter-News)

After 72 years and hundreds of books on the subject, you'd think we'd know everything about the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. But "Nova" (8 p.m., PBS, check local listings) uses forensics to disinter another fragment of evidence about the infamous...

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New Pearl Harbor evidence resurfaces on 'Nova' (The Standard-Times)

The “Angelkeep Journals” column has the rare opportunity to be published on the last day of 2009. “The Last Word,” so-to-speak! This column, like others, thrives on the special, sometimes odd, events of real life.

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Four season countdown to 2010 (Bluffton News-Banner)

A genius who knew 12,000 books by heart but didn't know how to dress himself, his incredible story inspired Rain Man - the role that made Dustin Hoffman millions.

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Did Dustin Hoffman exploit the Rain Man? After his death this week, his father makes a startling accusation (Daily Mail)