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February 24, 2020

The Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Mikaberidze

February 24, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Mikaberidze

A satisfyingly plump new history paints a broad picture of an entire world embroiled in wars caused by a revolution and an egomaniac.

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February 24, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
History
alexander mikaberidze, the napoleonic wars, military history, Steve Donoghue, Napoleon Bonaparte
February 20, 2020

It’s a Mystery: “Never met a sacred cow he didn’t want to slay”

February 20, 2020/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery: “Never met a sacred cow he didn’t want to slay”

A top notch mystery that is intricately layered to keep you in suspense.

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February 20, 2020/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense, It's a Mystery
It's a Mystery, Irma Heldman, Tessa Wegert, Berkley, mystery series, mystery fiction, crime fiction, thrillers
February 19, 2020

An Internet for the People by Jessa Lingel

February 19, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
An Internet for the People by Jessa Lingel

Jessa Lingel’s book argues that the key to fixing the Internet may come from the least likely source imaginable …

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February 19, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
jessa lingel, craigslist, technology, the internet, Steve Donoghue
February 17, 2020

Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

February 17, 2020/ David Murphy
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

Political pundit Ezra Klein attempts to get to the bottom of why American politics has become so bitterly divisive.

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February 17, 2020/ David Murphy/
Politics & Economics
Ezra Klein, Avid Reader Press, politics, American extremism, civil rights, David Murphy
February 13, 2020

The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

February 13, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

The teenage sons of two Mars-mission astronauts are worried about their parents - and discovering a new world together.

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February 13, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Young Adult
phil stamper, Young Adult Fiction, Steve Donoghue
February 12, 2020

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

February 12, 2020/ Olive Fellows
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

The title character of Margarita Montimore’s debut novel is living the years of her life out of chronological order - but some problems are timeless.

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February 12, 2020/ Olive Fellows/
Fiction-Debut
margarita montimore, debut fiction, Olive Fellows
February 10, 2020

A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind

February 10, 2020/ David Murphy
A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind

Daniel Susskind’s new book looks at how advances in automation will change the human work-force.

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February 10, 2020/ David Murphy/
Politics & Economics
daniel susskind, Economics, David Murphy
February 08, 2020

High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America

February 08, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America

Megachurches in America are enormously popular and steadily growing - a new book looks at what they are and how they work.

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February 08, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Religion
megachurches, james wellman, katie corcoran, kate stockly, Oxford University Press
February 07, 2020

A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig

February 07, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning go behind the scenes of the Trump White House and uncover exactly what you’d expect.

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February 07, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & Economics
Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig, Penguin Random House, American politics, Donald Trump
February 06, 2020

The Falcon Thief by Joshua Hammer

February 06, 2020/ Olive Fellows
The Falcon Thief by Joshua Hammer

The bizarre black market for rare bird eggs is the subject of Joshua Hammer’s new book.

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February 06, 2020/ Olive Fellows/
Literary Fiction
joshua hammer, birds, literary fiction, Olive Fellows
February 03, 2020

The Passion Economy by Adam Davidson

February 03, 2020/ David Murphy
The Passion Economy by Adam Davidson

Once upon a time, you got a job with a company and simply stayed there until you retired. A new century’s rules sometimes seem radically different. A book by Adam Davidson explores the altered terrain.

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February 03, 2020/ David Murphy/
Science/Technology
adam davidson, technology, Economics, David Murphy
February 03, 2020

It’s a Mystery:  “Loyalty is a distorting mirror”

February 03, 2020/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery:  “Loyalty is a distorting mirror”

A beautifully realized thriller that moves at a pulse-pounding pace to a heart-stopping climax.

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February 03, 2020/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense, It's a Mystery
Raymond Fleischmann, Berkley, It's a Mystery, Irma Heldman
February 02, 2020

The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicolson

February 02, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicolson

The “year of wonders” that raised Wordsworth and Coleridge to a new level of poetic greatness is the subject of Adam Nicolson’s new book

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February 02, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Poetry
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Nicolson, Steve Donoghue
February 01, 2020

Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein

February 01, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein

An illuminating new study attempts to discover the what, when, and why of how boys and young men think about sex.

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February 01, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Society & Culture
peggy orenstein, parenting, Harper Collins, Steve Donoghue
January 30, 2020

The Free-Market Family by Maxine Eichner

January 30, 2020/ David Murphy
The Free-Market Family by Maxine Eichner

Maxine Eichner’s new jeremiad against the brutalities of free market capitalism is pointed and angry - but is it true?

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January 30, 2020/ David Murphy/
Politics & Economics
maxine eichner, Milton Friedman, Economics, David Murphy
January 28, 2020

Cat Tale by Craig Pittman

January 28, 2020/ Olive Fellows
Cat Tale by Craig Pittman

A new book describes the long and fascinating quest to save the fabled Florida panther.

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January 28, 2020/ Olive Fellows/
Animals & Nature
craig pittman, animals, nature, Olive Fellows
January 26, 2020

Fully Grown by Dietrich Vollrath

January 26, 2020/ David Murphy
Fully Grown by Dietrich Vollrath

A new book carefully explains the structure and nature of the US economy’s penchant for booms and busts … but is it gripping reading?

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January 26, 2020/ David Murphy/
Politics & Economics
dietrich vollrath, Economics, David Murphy
January 23, 2020

The American People Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact by Larry Kramer

January 23, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The American People Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact by Larry Kramer

Writer and activist Larry Kramer’s epic work “The American People” thunders to a conclusion in “The Brutality of Fact”

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January 23, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Literary Fiction, Fiction-LGBTQ
larry kramer, AIDS, fiction, Steve Donoghue
January 22, 2020

Running Against the Devil by Rick Wilson

January 22, 2020/ David Murphy
Running Against the Devil by Rick Wilson

Republican strategist Rick Wilson, author of the bestselling “Everything Trump Touches Dies,” writes a strategy guide for Democrats to defeat Trump in 2020.

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January 22, 2020/ David Murphy/
Politics & Economics
Rick Wilson, Crown Forum, American Presidents, American politics, Donald Trump, David Murphy
January 21, 2020

It’s a Mystery: “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”

January 21, 2020/ Irma Heldman
It’s a Mystery: “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”

A new American classic; powerful, indelibly real and deeply moving.

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January 21, 2020/ Irma Heldman/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers, Fiction-Mystery/Suspense, It's a Mystery
Jeanine Cummins, Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, mystery fiction, crime fiction, Flatiron Books
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