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History
Sunny Solomon

German Voices

The reader who recalls Frederic Tubach’s and Bernard Rosner’s movingly honest memoir, An Uncommon Friendship, should not pass up Tubach’s latest book, German Voices. The

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Historical Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Wives of Los Alamos

TaraShea Nesbit made a stunningly smart decision when she wrote The Wives of Los Alamos. She chose to tell their stories through a collective consciousness

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Autobiography/Memoir
Neal Ferguson

Taking the Stand

  Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law Despite his occasional demurs, Dershowitz is a celebrity lawyer who relishes the attendant fame, media venues

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History
Neal Ferguson

Italian Ways

Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo The English-speaking world’s fascination—perhaps obsession—with Italy is at least 500 years old. A vast

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Health
Vivienne French

God’s Hotel

God’s Hotel  A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine   During a conversation about health care being more businesslike than

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Poetry
Sunny Solomon

The Rural Lives of Nice Girls

The Rural Lives of Nice Girls, Poems New and Selected Reno’s own Poet Laureate, Gailmarie Pahmeier, held an open house yesterday at Sundance Books &

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Fiction
Sunny Solomon

How to be a Good Wife

How to Be a Good Wife,  Emma Chapman’s chillingly captivating debut novel, begins with a statement by narrator Marta Bjornstad: “Today, somehow, I am a smoker.”

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Sweet Thunder
Fiction
Ann Ronald

Sweet Thunder

SWEET THUNDER Ivan Doig’s Sweet Thunder follows one of the characters from his earlier novel, The Whistling Season, into maturity. Perhaps you’ll remember him as

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British Authors
Neal Ferguson

Testament of Youth

Vera Brittain was in many ways a typical female product of a slightly repressive, prosperous, late Victorian family. Despite the potential stultification, she developed an

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

A Race to Splender

A Race to Splendor Historical romances tend to follow a predictable formula. Set at some crucial moment in the past, the story centers on a

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