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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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Edgar Rice Burroughs, February 2012
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

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 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 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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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 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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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
January 31, 2012

Book Review: Star Trek, The Rings of Time

January 31, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Captain Kirk finds himself stranded in the middle of space in the 21st century in this new Star Trek novel.

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February 2012, fiction, science fiction, star trek
January 31, 2012

A Quiz for Black History Month

January 31, 2012/ Tony Hightower

What better way to celebrate the month than with some Black History literary trivia!

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January 31, 2012

February 2012 Issue

January 31, 2012/ Open Letters Monthly

Megan Heeresdetail from "Home Alone"

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January 29, 2012

Book Review: The Design in Nature

January 29, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The originator of Constructal Theory writes another book expounding his notion that all things flow against resistance, and that everything flowing is alive.

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January 2012, natural history, nature, science
January 27, 2012

Book Review: Iago

January 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

One of Shakespeare's greatest villains gets a novel of his own - is there creative life after the Bard?

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contemporary fiction, fiction, historical fiction, January 2012, shakespeare
January 26, 2012

Book Review: An Available Man

January 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A befuddled widower finds himself suddenly thrust back into the dating game in Hilma Wolitzer's latest novel

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January 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2012
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