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Reviews
Dan Erwine

Mary Martin Broadway Legend

To kids growing up in the 1950’s, the name Mary Martin meant just one thing: Peter Pan. This was a television re-creation of the 1954

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Boy in the Suitcase

Let me begin this review with a glittering generality. I find contemporary Scandinavian murder mysteries to be graphic, violent, unsettling, and almost off-putting. I try

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Mystery
Ann Ronald

A Beautiful Place to Die

A Beautiful Place to Die brings to life a 1950s South Africa, when new apartheid laws have just been enacted and when justice is in

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History
Neal Ferguson

Empires, Nations and Families

Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 Although my professional life as a historian has been devoted almost exclusively to

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Fiction
David Hartzheim

The Ginger Man

J.P. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man, the manic/sad antics of Sebastian Dangerfield, has never been out of print since its first publication in Paris, 1955. Now

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Fiction
Vivienne French

Tributary

“My childhood among the Saints was no such thing. In a land built on belonging, I did not.” These first two sentences of Barbara Richardson’s

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Books on books
Dan Erwine

Atomic Comics, #2

Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World Although Atomic Comics was reviewed by Sunny earlier on this site, as an old-time comics fan, mostly from the

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Fiction
David Hartzheim

A Singular Man

A SINGULAR MAN JP Donleavy once described himself as a comfortably burned out volcano. A Singular Man was written when the volcano was still spitting

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Art
Ann Ronald

The Art Thief

Noah Charney founded and now directs an international think tank on art crime. The Association for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA) aids police and

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Poetry
Joanne Mallari

Yankee Broadcast Network

The duo is at it again: after their colorful conquest of the United States in Poets’ Guide to America, John F. Buckley and Martin Ott

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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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Fiction
Ann Ronald

West of Sunset

Stewart O’Nan’s novel, West of Sunset, mirrors perfectly the frenetic ennui of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and his fiction. West of Sunset tells the story

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Truth According to Us

Co-author with Mary Ann Shaffer of the best-selling The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and creator of a highly regarded children’s series starring

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Crime
Sunny Solomon

Tallgrass

Is there anything to be gained by reading another book about the World War II internment of Japanese Americans to relocation camps?  If the book

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Fiction
Dan Erwine

Moonbird Boy

Moonbird Boy is the fourth in a series of five mystery novels by Abigail Padgett, published as a series in the mid-1990s. All five novels

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