Stories By Elinor Teele
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History
The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
June 29, 2022But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
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Biography
Coffee with… Series
June 29, 2022Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
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Economics
American-Made by Nick Taylor
June 27, 2022Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
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Egypt
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
June 25, 2022Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
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Fiction Reviews
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour
June 25, 2022If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...
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Fiction Reviews
My Thousand & One Nights by Raja Alem and Tom McDonough
June 22, 2022In Alem’s world-view, one might expect to see objects morph into people, animals writhe in henna...
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China
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
June 21, 2022In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
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Crime Fiction
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
June 17, 2022A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is...
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Caribbean
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 17, 2022This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
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Biography
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
June 9, 2022The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...
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