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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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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2012
January 25, 2012

Comics: Fear Itself

January 25, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The god of fear comes to Earth intent on stomping all over Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and company

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comics, January 2012, marvel comics
January 24, 2012

Book Review: Death and Resurrection

January 24, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A new fantasy novel from a neglected giant in the genre!

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fantasy, January 2012, science fiction
January 23, 2012

Book Review: Henry VIII

January 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A masterful new biography takes Henry VIII down a peg or two

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biography, english history, henry viii, January 2012, Keeping up with the tudors, tudor history
January 22, 2012

Book Review: Ben Jonson

January 22, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A brilliant new biography of the great man of the English Renaissance

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biography, January 2012, Oxford University Press
January 21, 2012

Now in Paperback: Reckless

January 21, 2012/ Open Letters Monthly

A daring teen hero must risk everything to save his brother.

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fiction, January 2012, teen fiction
January 20, 2012

Interview: Christina Brooke

January 20, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

An interview with Romance author Christina Brooke!

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Interview, January 2012, romance, romance novels
January 19, 2012

Book Review: Mad About the Earl

January 19, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

When it comes to matters of matrimony, Christina Brooke's Ministry of Marriage will have its way, even if - in her latest novel - it means matching a ravishing beauty with a reluctant beast!

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fiction, January 2012, romance novels
January 18, 2012

Comics: The Drops of God

January 18, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The international hit manga series about the joys of fine wine comes to America in a series of new graphic novels

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comics, January 2012
January 17, 2012

Book Review: The Evolution of Ethan Poe

January 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

a gay teen in rural Maine deals with God, lust, and dogs in Robin Reardon's latest novel

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fiction, gay fiction, January 2012, teen fiction
January 16, 2012

Book Review: The Apocryphal Gospels

January 16, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

They've been debated, debarred, and destroyed over the centuries, but the Apocryphal Gospels are still with us, and in this fantastic new edition, they speak more clearly than ever.

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christianity, January 2012
January 14, 2012

Classics Reissued: Fire Upon the Deep

January 14, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Vernor Vinge's epic science fiction masterpiece gets a spiffy reprint on its twentieth anniversary!

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fiction, January 2012, science fiction
January 14, 2012

Book Review: Spartacus: Swords and Ashes

January 14, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A new novel (tie-in with the hit TV series) gives us an adventure of the pre-rebellion Spartacus

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fiction, January 2012
January 12, 2012

An Interview with Carol Carr

January 12, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A lively interview with Carol Carr, author of the 'India Black' novels!

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fiction, Interview, January 2012
January 12, 2012

Book Review: Sex and the River Styx

January 12, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The great essayist Edward Hoagland has come out with another collection of his work, one preoccupied with old age and looming mortality - and happiness, and renewal, and forest ponds.

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January 2012, Nonfiction
January 10, 2012

Book Review: The Darwin Archipelago

January 10, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

He wrote about the voyage of the Beagle, and then he wrote about the Origin of Species ... but many readers don't recall that Charles Darwin KEPT writing, generating many more books in the two decades left to him.

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January 10, 2012

Anthology Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction 28

January 10, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The living giants of science fiction stretch and subvert the fabric of imagination in the latest instalment of this legendary anthology series.

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gardner dozois, January 2012, science fiction
January 09, 2012

Book Review: The Deception at Lyme

January 09, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In Carrie Bebris' latest Jane Austen homage, the detective duo of Mr. & Mrs. Darcy take a vacation at Lyme, a location the proves scenic, fascinating - and deadly!

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fiction, historical fiction, jane austen, January 2012, mystery
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