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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent

May 4, 2018

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  Like some of the other non-fiction books I read last month (Educated, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark), American Radical by Tamer Elnoury reads like fiction. High-wire tension, thriller kind of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, crime, Dutton, religion

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

February 9, 2018

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  Turtles All the Way Down is my first experience with John Green and it left me mostly with…nothing. On the one hand, I applaud him for writing such an unsympathetic character, but on the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Dutton, mental health, teen years, young adult

Enchantress of Numbers

December 26, 2017

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  What kind of child might you get if you matched a world-famous poet known for his outrageous lifestyle and a genteel woman with a penchant for knowledge and restraint? If it was the early ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 19th century, Dutton, historical fiction, women

Fates and Traitors

November 29, 2017

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Fates and Traitors is a novel about John Wilkes Booth as told from the vantage point of the three women who were most important in his life and one near stranger who let him into her life. There is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, Civil War, Dutton, historical fiction

August Reading Wrap-Up

August 30, 2017

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Good bye August and goodbye summer! I complain a fair bit, but here is one thing that I absolutely loved about this summer in Seattle. We only had maybe three days all told when it got above 90°. The ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Reading Tagged: Bloomsbury, Dutton, historical fiction, lists, Manhattan, mini-reviews, Other Press

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