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The Works of Russel Kirk
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Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
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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...
Westerns
The Works of Max Crawford
May 22, 2026Being a serious writer in a time when swill by corrupt business tycoons, politicians and not-funny...
Mystery
The Key to the Case
May 22, 2026The locked room mystery has been a staple of detective fiction since Edgar Allan Poe’s The...
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Walking It Off – by Doug Peacock
May 22, 2026Doug Peacock’s reputation frequently precedes him as does that of his late, larger-than-life friend and father...
Crime Fiction
Grand Theft by Timothy Watts
May 22, 2026Teddy Clyde has got it all together. The dude’s got a brokerage business out on City...
Politics
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
May 21, 2026The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his...
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The Bloodiest Day: December 6, 1967
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History
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
May 21, 2026Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.
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Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
May 21, 2026Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
Israel
The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide by Susan Nathan
May 21, 2026My worry was that this might be another leftist book that glibly made analogies between Israel...
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History
The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
May 20, 2026The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Truth About Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It – by Marcia Angell
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Fiction Reviews
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The Trade – By Shirley Palmer
May 19, 2026Matt Lowell is a character straight out of central casting for the Lifetime Network. He’s a...
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