Book Review
The Whiskey Baron
The natural beauty of a small town in the early 1900s and the effects of industrialization on small-town life are intricately rendered in this murder mystery. The search for a murderer in a small South Carolina town ignites this strong...
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The Home Book
"The Home Book" replaces personal opinions related to construction quality and workmanship in residential homebuilding with clear written guidelines. Not sure who to call when there’s a problem with your new home? "The Home Book"...
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Me and Murder, She Wrote
Like a good friend reminiscing, Peter S. Fischer tells stories about his days as a TV writer and his transition to a career as an author of Hollywood mysteries. "Me and Murder, She Wrote" provides an insider view of Hollywood from the...
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The Facades
This debut novel defies genres while delivering humor and oddball characters. In "The Facades", fabulist author Eric Lundgren has created an imaginary urban environment that includes a missing opera singer, an evangelist preacher, and a...
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Prague: Capital of the Twentieth Century
Prague’s surrealist legacy, forgotten amid twentieth century totalitarianism, is revived and detailed in an impressive narrative. "Prague: Capital of the Twentieth Century" opens as the French surrealists Andre Breton and Paul Éluard...
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Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe
John Shirting is a young man on a mission: it’s the early 1990s and he wants to open a branch of Capo Coffee Family in Prague. Shirting considers himself a master of the espresso machine who instinctively times a shot to an exact...
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For You, Madam Lenin
This unconventional historical novel set during the Russian Revolution focuses on Lenin’s wife, Nadya Krupskaya, and not her more famous husband. Nadya is already committed to the revolution when she meets Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the...
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The Planets
A grisly explosion on the outskirts of a city, resulting in human appendages sprayed for hundreds of meters, causes the narrator to remember his childhood friend, M, who disappeared years before. In interconnected vignettes, the book...