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April 30, 2015

Book Reivew: Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

April 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Max Planck, the great physicist and father of quantum theory, gets a marvelous and empathetic new biography

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April 2015
April 29, 2015

Book Review: Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator

April 29, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A new biography takes advantage of recently-opened Soviet archives

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April 2015
April 28, 2015

Book Review: Infamy

April 28, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States summarily imprisoned thousands of its Japanese citizens for the duration of the war. Richard Reeves' passionate new book tells the story

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April 27, 2015

Book Review: In These Times

April 27, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Jenny Uglow's new book goes into lively detail about how ordinary people in Britain experienced the cataclysmic events of the wars of the Napoleonic era

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April 2015
April 26, 2015

Book Review: The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer

April 26, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Author Thom Hatch promises mind-blowing new revelations in his book on the Battle of Little Bighorn. And in other news, Rutherford B. Hayes is rumored to be contemplating a run for president.

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April 26, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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April 25, 2015

In Paperback: Saved by the Sea

April 25, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In his moving account, now in paperback from New World Library, David Helvarg recounts the wonders and wealth of the world's oceans

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April 2015, nature
April 25, 2015

Book Review: Of Noble Family

April 25, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Mary Robinette Kowal's sparkling "Glamourist" fantasy series comes to a complex and intriguing conclusion

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Fiction, Science Fiction
April 2015, fiction
April 24, 2015

Book Review: Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

April 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Cuckoos use other species of birds to raise the young they abandon, and they've been doing it for thousands of years without getting arrested. An absorbing new book isn't precisely rooting for them, but still ...

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April 2015, natural history
April 23, 2015

Book Review: The Intimate Bond

April 23, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

An extremely winning new book explores the enormous ways eight particular animal kinds have altered the course of human life on Earth

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April 22, 2015

Book Review: Dead Wake

April 22, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

One hundred years ago, a German U-boat sank the RMS Lusitania, with grievous loss of civilian life. The anniversary is observed by one of our best popular historians

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April 22, 2015

Book Review: Princes at War

April 22, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A chatty, vivacious new book tracks the four sons of the Royal House of Windsor during the years of World War Two

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April 22, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
A Year With The Windsors, Keeping up with The Wi...
April 2015
April 21, 2015

Book Review: Lucky Alan and Other Stories

April 21, 2015/ Robert Minto

Jonathan Lethem's latest book continues his project of combining the literary and the pulpy - Robert Minto reviews.

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April 21, 2015/ Robert Minto/
Fiction
April 2015, fiction
April 19, 2015

Book Review: Fortune's Fool

April 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The latest full-dress biography of John Wilkes Booth seeks to get at the flesh-and-blood man beneath the monster

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April 19, 2015

Book Review: How To Carry Bigfoot Home

April 19, 2015/ Justin Hickey

Giant eels, dragon-scammers, and of course Sasquatch himself feature in Chris Tarry's delightfully gonzo debut short story collection

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Fiction
April 2015, fiction
April 19, 2015

Book Review: The Dream Lover

April 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The passionate, unconventional life of novelist George Sand forms the backdrop for Elizabeth Berg's new novel

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April 2015, fiction, historical fiction
April 18, 2015

Book Review: Hell from the Heavens

April 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In April of 1945, the destroyer USS Laffey was bombarded by wave after wave of kamikaze fighters - and yet survived. A gripping new book tells the story of a ship that refused to die

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April 2015, world war II
April 17, 2015

Book Review: The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering

April 17, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the dystopian future of Jeffrey Rotter's fantastic novel, Copernican astronomy has been forgotten - but its secrets lie buried under what was once Florida

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April 2015, fiction
April 16, 2015

Book Review: "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else"

April 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In time for the hundred-year anniversary of the Ottoman killing of over a million Armenians, a gripping new history tells the whole story of the tragedy

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April 2015, history
April 15, 2015

Book Review: Lurid & Cute

April 15, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The main character of Adam Thirlwell's new novel has no redeeming qualities whatsoever - and he's sinfully easy to read about

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Fiction
April 2015, fiction
April 14, 2015

Book Review: Their Last Full Measure

April 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The tense and frantic final months of the American Civil War forms the backdrop for Joseph Wheelan's lively new book

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