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December 03, 2019

Free, Melania by Kate Bennett

December 03, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Free, Melania by Kate Bennett

“Moron Marries Monster for Money” would be a much more accurate title.

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December 03, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, Politics & Economics
kate bennett, melania trump, Donald Trump, Steve Donoghue
December 02, 2019

Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends

December 02, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends

This beautifully-produced hard cover reprint demonstrates why this book sold the way it did a century ago.

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December 02, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Anthologies/Short Stories, Classic Literature
chinese fairy tales and legends, richard wilhelm, frederick martens, Steve Donoghue
November 27, 2019

It’s a Mystery: “The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.”

November 27, 2019/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery: “The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.”

Actions fueled by love are not always attractive or even right but they are always meaningful.

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November 27, 2019/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense, It's a Mystery
Saul Black, St. Martin's Press, It's a Mystery, Irma Heldman, mystery series, mystery fiction, thrillers, crime fiction
November 25, 2019

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

November 25, 2019/ Jennifer Helinek
Know My Name by Chanel Miller

The memoir of the woman assaulted by Stanford freshman Brock Turner.

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November 25, 2019/ Jennifer Helinek/
Biography/Memoir
Chanel Miller, Viking Press, Penguin Random House, memoir, sexual assault, Jennifer Helinek
November 25, 2019

The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger

November 25, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger

An angry grizzly bear (is there any other kind?) interrupts a group of young friends on a Canadian camping trip

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November 25, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Action/Adventure, Animals & Nature
Alex Messenger, nature, animals, survival stories, Steve Donoghue, Action/Adventure
November 22, 2019

Audience of One by James Poniewozik

November 22, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Audience of One by James Poniewozik

A television critic assesses the symbiotic relationship between TV and Donald Trump

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November 22, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, Politics & Economics
james poniewozik, American politics, American Presidents, Donald Trump, Steve Donoghue
November 21, 2019

Parade by Hiromi Kawakami

November 21, 2019/ Bailey Trela
Parade by Hiromi Kawakami

You don’t really need to be aware that Parade is a loose sequel to Kawakami’s previous novel, 2017’s Strange Weather in Tokyo.

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November 21, 2019/ Bailey Trela/
Nonfiction Translations
Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell, Soft Skull Press, Bailey Trela, translations
November 20, 2019

The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand

November 20, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand

Brand’s enthusiasm for foxes is brightly infectious in this slim, enchanting new book.

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November 20, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
animals, nature, Adele Brand, Steve Donoghue
November 19, 2019

Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate by Mike Giglio

November 19, 2019/ Peggy Kurkowski
Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate by Mike Giglio

What powers this book more than bullets and bombs are the people Giglio encounters and the stories they share.

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November 19, 2019/ Peggy Kurkowski/
History, Politics & Economics
Mike Giglio, Middle East, world history, Peggy Kurkowski
November 18, 2019

With All Due Respect by Nikki Haley

November 18, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
With All Due Respect by Nikki Haley

Donald Trump’s former UN ambassador writes a memoir about her time in the administration.

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November 18, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, Politics & Economics
nikki haley, memoir, politics, Steve Donoghue
November 15, 2019

Think, Write, Speak by Vladimir Nabokov

November 15, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Think, Write, Speak by Vladimir Nabokov

A meticulously contextualized volume just brimming with supporting information.

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November 15, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Essays, Literary Criticism
Brian Boyd, Anastasia Tolstoy, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vladimir Nabokov, Steve Donoghue, essays
November 14, 2019

King Charles by Robert Jobson

November 14, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
King Charles by Robert Jobson

An enthusiastic new biography of the heir apparent to the Throne.

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November 14, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, History
Prince Charles, British Royal Family, English Monarchy, Robert Jobson, biography, Steve Donoghue
November 13, 2019

The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver

November 13, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver

Nobody alive today is in a better position to write an enormous, definitive biography of this artist.

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November 13, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, Society & Culture, Art & Music
William Feaver, Lucian Freud, biography, painting, art & artists, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Steve Donoghue
November 12, 2019

The Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton

November 12, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
The Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton

Glowing with life but unblinkingly clear about the limitations these women faced.

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November 12, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir
Dorothy Sayers, Mo Moulton, biography, Steve Donoghue
November 07, 2019

Ingenious by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson

November 07, 2019/ Karel Carpenter
Ingenious by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson

Observations that have been made in a hundred other places, and a hundred times better.

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November 07, 2019/ Karel Carpenter/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson, Karel Carpenter, Harvard University Press, social science, innovation, technology, evolution
November 05, 2019

It’s a Mystery: “Honor among thieves, perhaps, honor among spies, never”

November 05, 2019/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery: “Honor among thieves, perhaps, honor among spies, never”

A brilliantly multilayered examination of the disillusionment of aging spies.

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November 05, 2019/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers, It's a Mystery
John le Carré, Viking Press, espionage, suspense, crime fiction, spy thriller, Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, Penguin Random House
November 04, 2019

An Equal Justice by Chad Zunker

November 04, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
An Equal Justice by Chad Zunker

True to formula legal thriller—an ambitious young lawyer, a prestigious law firm, skullduggery rather easily stumbled upon, and a hastily-improvised master plan.

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November 04, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Chad Zunker, spy thriller, suspense, Thomas and Mercer, Brilliance Books, Steve Donoghue
November 01, 2019

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland

November 01, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland

Holland traces the insatiable growth and development of Christianity through all its major stages and locations.

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November 01, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
History, Religion
Tom Holland, Basic Books, Christianity, world history, Steve Donoghue, History
October 30, 2019

The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols by Nicholas Meyer

October 30, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols by Nicholas Meyer

Meyer knows exactly how to do this kind of pastiche, right down to the book’s chirpy footnotes.

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October 30, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense
Nicholas Meyer, Minotaur Books, Sherlock Holmes, pastiche, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue
October 29, 2019

The Will of the People by T.H. Bree

October 29, 2019/ Peggy Kurkowski
The Will of the People by T.H. Bree

An extremely well-paced and engaging account of those who never enjoyed the attentions of history.

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October 29, 2019/ Peggy Kurkowski/
History
T. H. Breen, Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Peggy Kurkowski, American History, American Revolution, Founding Fathers
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