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May 23, 2020

Star Trek: The Higher Frontier by Christopher Bennett

May 23, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Star Trek: The Higher Frontier by Christopher Bennett

Miranda Jones returns to help Captain Kirk & crew prevent a war of extermination.

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May 23, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Star Trek: The Higher Frontier, Christopher Bennett, Star Trek, Notes for a Star Trek Bibliography, Star Trek the Original Series, Star Trek fiction, Steve Donoghue
May 21, 2020

The Poets & Writers Complete Guide To Being a Writer

May 21, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Poets & Writers Complete Guide To Being a Writer

Everything every aspiring writer could ever want to know about the world they hope to enter

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May 21, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Books & Authors
The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Becoming a Writer, Kevin Larimer, Mary Gannon, poetry, Steve Donoghue, writer's craft
May 18, 2020

The Suburb and the Sword: James Clavell’s Shogun as a Guide to Manhood

May 18, 2020/ Steve Danziger
The Suburb and the Sword: James Clavell’s Shogun as a Guide to Manhood

Steve Danziger on feudalist Japan vs. contemporary Marlboro.

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May 18, 2020/ Steve Danziger/
Backlist, Essays
Shogun, Asian fiction, James Clavell, Steve Danziger, backlist
May 17, 2020

Beast by Watt Key

May 17, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Beast by Watt Key

In Watt Key’s new novel, a young boy goes on a very personal quest to find a cryptic monster in the Florida swamps

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May 17, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Action/Adventure, Fiction-Young Adult
Watt Key, fiction, Florida bigfoot, sasquatch, YA fiction, Steve Donoghue, myths and legends
May 16, 2020

Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir

May 16, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir

Historian Alison Weir writes a long novel about King Henry VIII’s very young fifth wife.

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May 16, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Historical Fiction
Alison Weir, Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen, Tudor fiction, historical fiction, Steve Donoghue
May 15, 2020

The End of October by Lawrence Wright

May 15, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright’s new novel is about a novel coronavirus that sweeps across the world in a pandemic for which nobody is prepared.

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May 15, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers
Lawrence Wright, The End of October, fiction, pandemic
May 11, 2020

Scandinavian Noir by Wendy Lesser

May 11, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Scandinavian Noir by Wendy Lesser

A new book by Wendy Lesser examines the phenomenon of Nordic noir.

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May 11, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Mystery/Suspense, Books & Authors
Scandinavian Noir, Wendy Lesser, mystery fiction, Steve Donoghue, Farrar Straus Giroux Books, MacMillan Publishers
May 11, 2020

The Living Presidency by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash

May 11, 2020/ David Murphy
The Living Presidency by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash

A smart analysis of the growing power of the US Presidency - and a call to limit that power.

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May 11, 2020/ David Murphy/
Politics & Economics
Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, David Murphy, American Presidents, politics, Belknap Press
May 09, 2020

Men of Violence Take It By Force: Philippe Lancon’s “Disturbance”

May 09, 2020/ Ivan Kenneally
Men of Violence Take It By Force: Philippe Lancon’s “Disturbance”

Journalist Philippe Lançon’s account of putting his life back together from the inside out.

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May 09, 2020/ Ivan Kenneally/
Biography/Memoir
Philippe Lancon, Steven Rendall, Europa Editions, Ivan Kenneally, memoir, translations
May 07, 2020

The Reckoning by MJ Trow

May 07, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Reckoning by MJ Trow

In the latest exciting MJ Trow murder mystery, the playwright Christopher Marlowe has an appointment in Deptford …

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May 07, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Historical Fiction
MJ Trow, Christopher Marlowe, murder mystery, historical fiction
May 05, 2020

Tombstone by Tom Clavin

May 05, 2020/ Peggy Kurkowski
Tombstone by Tom Clavin

The famous gunfight at the OK Corral gets a broad new history.

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May 05, 2020/ Peggy Kurkowski/
History
Peggy Kurkowski, Tom Clavin, Doc Holliday, the OK Corral, Wyatt Earp, American West, history
May 02, 2020

Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate

May 02, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate writes about the young firebrand William Wordsworth.

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May 02, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, Poetry
Jonathan Bate, biography, literary biography, William Wordsworth, Steve Donoghue
April 30, 2020

What It's Like To Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley

April 30, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
What It's Like To Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley

David Allen Sibley’s latest bird book is a beautifully-illustrated oversized volume on the behavior of a few dozen well-known species.

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April 30, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
David Allen Sibley, birds, nature, nature writing, ornithology, Steve Donoghue
April 30, 2020

Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

April 30, 2020/ David Murphy
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

Is famous economist Thomas Piketty right about inequality? David Murphy dissects.

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April 30, 2020/ David Murphy/
Politics & Economics
Thomas Piketty, politics, nonfiction, Economics, capitalism, David Murphy, translations
April 29, 2020

What Is the Grass by Mark Doty

April 29, 2020/ Hannah Joyner
What Is the Grass by Mark Doty

A contemporary poet discovers he “contains multitudes”--and pairs his intimate memoir with a close reading of the work of Walt Whitman.

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April 29, 2020/ Hannah Joyner/
Poetry
Mark Doty, Walt Whitman, poetry, American poetry, Hannah Joyner
April 26, 2020

The Queen of Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen

April 26, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Queen of Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen

A sumptuous historical novel about the notorious Coco Chanel.

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April 26, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Historical Fiction
Coco Chanel, Pamela Binnings Ewen, Blackstone Publishing, Steve Donoghue, fashion, biography, historical fiction
April 26, 2020

Alien Oceans by Kevin Peter Hand

April 26, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Alien Oceans by Kevin Peter Hand

What can Earth’s oceans teach us about life on other worlds?

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April 26, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology
Kevin Peter Hand, Princeton University Press, nature, Steve Donoghue, space exploration, NASA
April 25, 2020

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (second edition)

April 25, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (second edition)

The legendary Peterson field guide gets a long-awaited new edition.

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April 25, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
roger tory peterson, Peterson's Field Guide to Birds of North America, nature, birds, birding guides, Steve Donoghue
April 21, 2020

Calder: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years by Jed Perl

April 21, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Calder: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years by Jed Perl

The second volume in Jed Perl’s indispensable biography of Alexander Calder.

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April 21, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, Art & Music
Alexander Calder, Steve Donoghue, art history, biography, Jed Perl
April 21, 2020

From 2017: Calder: The Conquest of Time - the Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl

April 21, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
From 2017: Calder: The Conquest of Time - the Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl

The first volume of Jed Perl’s landmark biography of Alexander Calder.

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April 21, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, Art & Music
Jed Perl, art history, biography, Steve Donoghue
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