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‘American Dirt’ “American Dirt” tells the story of Lydia and her son, Luca. They are migrants heading toward the United States, fleeing a vengeful cartel. Jeanine Cummins shares their gruesome [...]
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Posted November 06, 2019in Book Review
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‘Gideon the Ninth’ Serious fiction is important and valuable to the societal landscape, and it is rightly a focus of much scholarly work. However, sometimes you just need a crazy [...]
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Posted October 02, 2019in Book Review
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‘Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee’ After assisting Truman Capote with his research for “In Cold Blood,” Harper Lee endeavored to follow her bestselling “To Kill [...]
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Posted September 04, 2019in Book Review
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‘Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague’ Both fascinating and frightening, this tale of the entry of the bubonic plague into the [...]
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Posted July 31, 2019in Book Review
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‘Country Dark’ Chris Offutt deftly captures life in rural Kentucky. “Country Dark” begins in 1954 when Tucker, not quite 18, leaves Korea as a decorated veteran and heads toward his [...]
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Posted July 03, 2019in Book Review
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‘Biloxi’ “Always Happy Hour” by Mary Miller was one of my favorite books of the year when it came out, and she did not disappoint with her latest offering, “Biloxi.” [...]
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Posted June 05, 2019in Book Review
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‘American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic’ Dr. David Hosack was a doctor and botanist who lived among and treated some of the [...]
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Posted May 01, 2019in Book Review
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‘The Calculating Stars’ There is a small handful of writers who don’t just craft a good story, or comment smartly on modern life, or create fascinating characters you’d want to [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Book Review
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‘American Dialogue: The Founders and Us’ In “American Dialogue,” Joseph Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, has taken some of the most vexing issues of the current political scene and related them [...]
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Posted March 06, 2019in Book Review
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“The Gown” by Jennifer Robson “The Gown” tells a beautiful story set in 1947 London, when England is still recovering from World War II. Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin are two [...]
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