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The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
May 16, 2020If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....
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The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
May 16, 2020Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel, The Stone Gods, is a science-fiction novel-within-a-novel adventure and might come as...
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The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs
May 15, 2020Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in...
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Gas City by Loren Estleman
May 15, 2020The characters and the settings in Gas City are rife with intriguing promise that never seems...
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The Right Side of the Tracks
May 15, 2020Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
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The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
May 14, 2020Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in...
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Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe
May 13, 2020And, in true Krusoeian fashion, the oddities are delightful. Jonathan, the adult narrator with a childlike...
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Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson
May 12, 2020Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield...
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Coffee with… Series
May 12, 2020Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
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Double Cross – By James Patterson
May 12, 2020I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...