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Book pick: "House of Stone" by Anthony Shadid

10:55 AM, March 20, 2012

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Kerri's Pick of the Week is "House of Stone," journalist Anthony Shadid's memoir of returning to Lebanon to renovate his family's ancestral home. Shadid was a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for the New York Times.

He talked to Kerri last year about the perils of reporting from a war zone. He died last month in Syria after suffering an asthma attack.

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