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I Was Anastasia: A Novel

March 28, 2018

anastasia

I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon achieves quite a feat—taking a subject about which there is no longer any mystery and making it mysterious. Thanks to DNA testing, it is now known that Grand Duchess ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, Doubleday, historical fiction, mystery, Russia

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

December 6, 2017

underground

I wasn’t planning on making this my week of impressive, but painful, tragic books but here we are. Reading Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad  is like watching 12 Years a Slave—both are ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Doubleday, historical fiction, social issues, Southern life

Burntown: A Novel

May 10, 2017

burntown

  When you are eight-years-old the lines between what is real and what is imagined can still get blurred. So, it might be difficult for Miles to explain to police that he saw a man wearing a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Doubleday, mystery, New England

The Word Exchange

April 7, 2014

word exchange

A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem) is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, dystopia, science fiction

Dark: The Angel’s Game

May 27, 2013

The Angel's Game

If you love to read then there is likely to be a time in which you find yourself reading a string of books that follow a similar theme or contain a singular element. A literary synchronicity, if you ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Doubleday, mystery

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