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March 25, 2024

The Golden Gate by Amy Chua *** (of 4)

Detective Al Sullivan’s first big murder case erupts when former presidential candidate Walter Wilkinson (modeled on FDR’s 1940 opponent Wendell Wilkie) is shot in his...

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February 8, 2024

Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger *** (of 4)

Burkhard Bilger is a German-American, accomplished author and writer for the New Yorker, and the right age to have a grandfather who was a Nazi....

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February 8, 2024

Lessons in Chemistry *** (of 4) by Bonnie Garmus

Elizabeth Zott is a chemist, but the early 1960s is no time to be a woman in science. Or, for that matter, to be woman...

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January 26, 2024

Fire Weather by John Vaillant **** (of 4)

Just as every year is now the hottest on record, so too the number and intensity of wildfires across the planet break annual records for...

America

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January 26, 2024

A Disappearance in Fiji *** (of 4)

Sargent Akal Singh has been banished to desk duty in Fiji. The year is 1915 and Britain rules its colonies with guile, brutality, and economic...

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January 11, 2024

Free by Lea Ypi *** (of 4)

Lea Ypi is now a distinguished professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. She wanted to describe for readers what life in...

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January 11, 2024

The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland *** (of 4)

Historically accurate, this is a fictional recounting of an 1811 fire in Richmond, Virginia that consumed a theater and scores of patrons inside. A young...

America

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January 11, 2024

Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal *** (of 4)

A group of Russian men have just been conscripted into the Army. They are on the trans-Siberian railroad crossing more than 8 time zones toward...

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January 5, 2024

Uncle Marty Week – 2024

Every year for as long as anyone can recall, Uncle Marty (left), Sue’s (right) brother, arrives from California. Beginning before Christmas and lasting through the...

Sourdoughs and SCOBYs

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