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February 27, 2012

Book Review: Watergate

February 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Thomas Mallon's latest novel dramatizes the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration

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February 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, February 2012, fiction, historical fiction, richard nixon
February 26, 2012

Book Review: Enterprise

February 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

a lean and pugnacious new history of the second-greatest fighting ship in United States history!

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February 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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February 2012, history, military history, world war two
February 25, 2012

Classics Reissued: Illumination in the Flatwoods

February 25, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In conjunction with a recent PBS special, a classic book is re-issued: the story of a man who became the mother, father, and leader to an engaging group of wild turkeys

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February 25, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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February 2012, natural history, nature
February 23, 2012

Book Review: Under the Moons of Mars

February 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A new anthology of tales set in the exotic Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter" novels!

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February 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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Edgar Rice Burroughs, February 2012
February 21, 2012

CD of the Week - Debussy's Clair de Lune

February 21, 2012/ Norman Lebrecht

The great Natalie Dessay is at her best in this recording of Claude Debussy's early piano suites

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February 21, 2012/ Norman Lebrecht/
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Debussy, February 2012, Norman Lebrecht
February 20, 2012

Book Review: The Frontiers of Imperial Rome

February 20, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The frontiers of ancient Rome - the limits by which it defined both itself and its enemies - stretched from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Irish Sea. In this muscular new study, those frontiers take center stage.

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Ancient Rome
February 2012, history, keeping up with the romans, military history, roman history
February 18, 2012

Now in Paperback: Avengers Assemble Vol. 2

February 18, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The Earth's Mightiest Heroes love, squabble, and fight killer robots in this latest reprint volume

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February 18, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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February 2012
February 18, 2012

Book Review: The Forest Laird

February 18, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A veteran historical novelist takes on that gigantic freedom fighter, William Wallace

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February 2012, fiction, historical fiction
February 17, 2012

Classics Reissued: Dr. Fu-Manchu

February 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Everybody knows the name Fu-Manchu, but so few people have read the books that made that name famous! A great new series of reprints aims to correct that.

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February 2012
February 16, 2012

Book Review: Kiev 1941

February 16, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In Hitler's great gamble of attacking the Soviet Union in 1941, the legendary victories at Kiev weren't so glorious as standard histories would have us believe - so says a new book on the subject

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european history, February 2012, military history, world war II
February 14, 2012

CD of the Week - John Cage's Complete Piano Music

February 14, 2012/ Norman Lebrecht

A bursting box set contains all of the piano music from the iconoclastic American composer John Cage

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February 14, 2012/ Norman Lebrecht/
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February 2012, John Cage, Norman Lebrecht
February 12, 2012

Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics

February 12, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A massive collection of essays examining all aspects of animal rights.

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February 12, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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animals, February 2012, natural history
February 11, 2012

Classics Reissued: What's to Become of the Boy?

February 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A pretty new reprint of the great German writers' memoir of boyhood under the Nazis in Cologne.

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February 2012, memoir, nazi germany
February 09, 2012

Book Review: The Comedy is Finished

February 09, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A series of fortunate events unearths a long-lost manuscript by the late great Donald Westlake! Too good to be true, or too true to be good?

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February 2012, fiction, mystery, mystery fiction
February 08, 2012

Book Review: City of Fortune

February 08, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

An intensely readable history of the wars that made - and then broke - the city of Venice as ruler of the seas.

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February 2012, history, venice
February 07, 2012

Now in Paperback: Avengers Prime

February 07, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America - read a great adventure of the Avengers core trio before you feast your eyes on the summer's movie!

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February 2012
February 06, 2012

Book Review: Zoopolis

February 06, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

An eloquent and extremely thought-provoking new formulation of animals deserve from the humans who determine their fates.

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animals, February 2012
February 05, 2012

Book Review: Quiet

February 05, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A new book praises introverts as the wonderful, sensitive, thoughtful conscience of the brawling, talking human race.

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February 04, 2012

Book Review: Ghost on the Throne

February 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

When Alexander the Great died at age 32, his huge empire was split apart by his warring successors. James Romm's new book on the subject captures all the brutal drama.

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February 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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Alexander the Great, classics, February 2012
February 03, 2012

Classics Reissued: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

February 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A wonderful (and long out of print) adaptation of "SIr Gawain and the Green Knight" by the great 20th century novelist and teacher John Gardner

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Adam Golaski, February 2012, j-r-r- tolkien, Poetry
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