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She Died For Her Sins

by Paula Scardamalia

The opening pages of this novel are reminiscent of both Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe series and Lawrence Sanders’s McNally series. Tod, the narrator and son of Bomber Hanson, seems to combine the errand-boy status of Wolfe’s Archie... Read More

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Lost in a Blizzard

A swirling white enemy trapped the children on the cold little bus. But snow kept invading it. There was no escape. The chilling, true story of school children trapped in a terrible snowstorm begins on March 26, 1931. Parents and a bus... Read More

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The Science of Romance

by Elizabeth Millard

For some, love may be full of hearts and stars, but for evolutionary psychologists like the author, it’s mainly a stew of neurons, genes, and hormones. In this work on how evolution affects human behavior in the romantic and sexual... Read More

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Three Poets of Modern Korea

Most Americans’ images of Korea extend little further than Hyundais and demilitarized zones and vague stories about eating dogs. This book, which offers fairly generous samplings of three very different Korean poets, may help begin to... Read More

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A Fistful of Lentils

by Nancy K. Allen

Abadi is of the new generation of Jews who share and celebrate their heritage with others. Her guardian angel of cooking is Grandmother Fritzie. Abadi dedicates her book to this Syrian grandmother who carried a bottle of Tabasco sauce in... Read More

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Shakers of St. Vincent

by Lisa Archibald

Shakers mourn. The pointer covers mourners’ heads with white bands and whispers passwords in their ears. With crosses and candles in hand, mourners prepare for ecstatic spiritual journeys. The pointer repeats the password to them so... Read More

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A Month of Sundaes

by Jodee Taylor

While ice cream in various forms can be traced back to ancient Rome, it was really Thomas Jefferson who made it our “national dessert,” says the author in this ode to frozen dairy treats. Americans eat more ice cream per capita than... Read More

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Lumen

by Marlene Satter

While the very idea may seem alien to science fiction fans, there was a time when most people never even considered the possibility of life on other planets, much less what forms such life might take and how such beings might behave. In... Read More

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