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The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
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Crossing Styx
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Mike Carey: Novelist and Comic Writer
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Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
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The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
June 10, 2026Goodwin now returns with another mystery, a tale as exotic as the first one, delicious in...
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Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
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Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
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Hanna Rosin Discusses God’s Harvard
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Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
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The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
June 8, 2026He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies....
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The Solution to History
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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
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5 Amazing Things You Need To Know About 3D Modeling With Maya
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Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
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Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
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No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
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Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
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William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
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What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
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Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
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Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
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Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means – by William T. Vollmann
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