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May 29, 2014

Book Review: A World Without Jews

May 29, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A stunning portrait of a people driven by fear and then consumed by hate

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german history, May 2014
May 29, 2014

Book Review: Why the Germans? Why the Jews?

May 29, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A modern classic - now in an English-language translation - examines the roots of prewar German anti-Semitism

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german history, May 2014
May 27, 2014

Book Review: A Replacement Life

May 27, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Remembering stories about the Holocaust shades into inventing stories about the Holocaust in Boris Fishman's fantastic debut

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fiction, May 2014
May 27, 2014

Book Review: The Possibilities

May 27, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A mother in Colorado, grieving for her young son, confronts the fact that he might have been leading a life she never imagined

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fiction, May 2014
May 27, 2014

Book Review: Invisible Ellen

May 27, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A reclusive young woman meets a high-spirited blind girl whose enthusiasm for life opens a new world

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fiction, May 2014
May 26, 2014

In Paperback: Dark Omens

May 26, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Dauntless mosaic-layer Libertus returns for another side-job of crime-solving in Rosemary Rowe's latest gripping murder mystery set in Roman Britain

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Ancient Rome
keeping up with the romans, May 2014
May 23, 2014

The Battle for Justice in Palestine

May 23, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A controversial author's latest and most devastating indictment of Israel's policies toward its Palestinian citizens and neighbors

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Politics & History
May 2014
May 21, 2014

Book Review: Bumble Bees of North America

May 21, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A lavishly-illustrated guide book to the bumble bees of North America, in all their busy glory

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May 2014, natural history
May 21, 2014

Book Review: The Steady Running of the Hour

May 21, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The life and great loves of a legendary 1920s mountain-climber reach out from the past to grab the life of a young 1990s man in Justin Go's hugely ambitious debut novel

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fiction, May 2014
May 19, 2014

Book Review: The Marathon Conspiracy

May 19, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Two missing girls, a very dead tyrant, and the possibility of a rampaging bear are only a few of the plot-twists in Gary Corby's latest murder mystery set in the Athens of Pericles

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May 17, 2014

Book Review: Arctic Summer

May 17, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The fateful trip E. M. Forster took to India in 1912 was the inspiration for his greatest novel - and it's likewise the inspiration for a new novel from the author of "The Good Doctor"

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E-M- Forster, fiction, May 2014
May 17, 2014

Book Review: Young God

May 17, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

In this spare and violent debut, a 13-year-old girl from Appalachia enters a lawless life

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fiction, May 2014
May 13, 2014

Book Review: The Norman Conquest

May 13, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

That same old grand story - William of Normandy's daring capture of England in 1066 - gets a spiffy new history

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marc morris, May 2014
May 11, 2014

Book Review: Philology

May 11, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The complicated and far-reaching intellectual endeavor of philology is the subject of a magnificent new history that has an angry edge of its own

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May 2014
May 05, 2014

The 68th Annual Edgar Awards

May 05, 2014/ Irma Heldman

Irma Heldman, Open Letters' resident mystery expert, attended this year's Edgar Awards. She reports back on the highlights (and the banquet's best themed desserts).

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May 04, 2014

Book Review: Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well

May 04, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

In Nancy Atherton's latest "Aunt Dimity" novel, a handsome young stranger comes to the little village of Finch - and he's chaos follows in his wake

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May 2014
May 04, 2014

Book Review: Athens

May 04, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A slim and jam-packed new history of the city of Athens

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history, May 2014
May 03, 2014

Book Review: The Homing Instinct

May 03, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Birds, turtles, bees, fish, whales ... vast armies of living things traverse vast swatches of distance every year in their migrations. But how do they find their way? And WHY do they find their way? Bernd Heinrich's new book explores the homing instinct.

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May 2014, natural history
May 02, 2014

Book Review: The Chance

May 02, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The scenic seacoast town of Thunder Point plays host to more than its fair share of romantic drama in Robyn Carr's popular series

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May 2014, romance novels
May 02, 2014

Book Review: Midnight Pursuits

May 02, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

An elite mercenary and an elite thief cross paths - with wonderfully predictable results - in Elle Kennedy's latest "Killer Instincts" novel

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May 2014, romance novels
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