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Pelosi
Nonfiction
Ann Ronald

Pelosi

Pelosi, a spectacularly successful politician. Molly Ball focuses her reporting on Nancy Pelosi, the politician, rather than Nancy Pelosi, the wife, mother, grandmother, and loyal

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This 'N That
Sunny Solomon

Who’s the Publisher?

Who’s the Publisher? And Why it’s Important You may not be able to tell a book by its cover, and I personally give thanks for

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These Is My Words
Historical Fiction
Sunny Solomon

These is My Words

These is My Words has been out since 2008, so my wholehearted two thumbs up for this book may seem a day late and a

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Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Joanne Mallari

Impossible

This book is impossible to put down, no pun intended. Nancy Werlin, National Book Award Finalist, pulls readers into the fast-moving currents of a modern

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Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Sunny Solomon

The Year of the Hare

The Year of the Hare is a perfect winter book. Get the fire going, pull up a comfy chair, a good reading lamp, a table

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Entertainment
Ann Ronald

Flappers

Flappers: Six Women in Search of a Dangerous Generation Judith Mackrell, author of Flappers, presents a wealth of meticulous research in lively, vivacious prose. She

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These Is My Words
Fiction
Ann Ronald

These is My Words

These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 Arizona Territories Nancy E. Turner, author of These is my Words, turns a scattering

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Finale - A Novel of the Reagan Years
Fiction
Ann Ronald

Finale

Finale – A Novel of the Reagan Years Political junkies, rejoice! Thomas Mallon has written another novel fictionalizing American politics. I recently reviewed Watergate for

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History
Neal Ferguson

White Trash

White Trash: the 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Conventional wisdom holds that seminal social problems in America and Britain are contrasted thusly: “Britain

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Children’s picture books
Sunny Solomon

Manjhi Moves a Mountain

MANJHI MOVES A MOUNTAIN When asked what kind of book I most enjoy reviewing, children’s picture books are right up there near the top. I’m

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A Marriage Out West
Biography
Ann Ronald

A Marriage Out West

A Marriage Out West The Romance of Anthropology. Subtitled “Theresa and Frank Russell’s Explorations in Arizona, 1900-1903,” A Marriage Out West analyzes the Russell’s 1900

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Loving Frank

Edwin Cheney and his wife, Mamah Borthwick Cheney, greatly admired Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park, Illinois designs, and so commissioned the architect to create something

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Biography
Ann Ronald

Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Did all women married to well-known men struggle for recognition?” So Robert Louis Stevenson muses in Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan’s new

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