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February 27, 2012

Book Review: Watergate

February 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Thomas Mallon's latest novel dramatizes the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration

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February 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
contemporary fiction, February 2012, fiction, historical fiction, richard nixon, thomas mallon, watergate
February 26, 2012

Book Review: Enterprise

February 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

a lean and pugnacious new history of the second-greatest fighting ship in United States history!

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February 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
barrett tillman, enterprise, February 2012, history, military history, world war two
February 25, 2012

Classics Reissued: Illumination in the Flatwoods

February 25, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In conjunction with a recent PBS special, a classic book is re-issued: the story of a man who became the mother, father, and leader to an engaging group of wild turkeys

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February 25, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
February 2012, illumination in the flatwoods, joe hutto, natural history, nature, turkeys
February 23, 2012

Book Review: Under the Moons of Mars

February 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A new anthology of tales set in the exotic Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter" novels!

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February 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Edgar Rice Burroughs, February 2012, greg manchess, john carter of mars, john joseph adams, under the moons of mars
February 20, 2012

Book Review: The Frontiers of Imperial Rome

February 20, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The frontiers of ancient Rome - the limits by which it defined both itself and its enemies - stretched from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Irish Sea. In this muscular new study, those frontiers take center stage.

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February 20, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
david breeze, February 2012, history, keeping up with the romans, military history, roman history, the frontiers of imperial rome
February 18, 2012

Now in Paperback: Avengers Assemble Vol. 2

February 18, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The Earth's Mightiest Heroes love, squabble, and fight killer robots in this latest reprint volume

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February 18, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
February 2012
February 18, 2012

Book Review: The Forest Laird

February 18, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A veteran historical novelist takes on that gigantic freedom fighter, William Wallace

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February 18, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
February 2012, fiction, historical fiction, jack whyte, the forest laird, william wallace
February 17, 2012

Classics Reissued: Dr. Fu-Manchu

February 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Everybody knows the name Fu-Manchu, but so few people have read the books that made that name famous! A great new series of reprints aims to correct that.

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February 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
February 2012, fu-manchu, sax rohmer, the mystery of fu-manchu, the return of fu-manchu, titan books
February 16, 2012

Book Review: Kiev 1941

February 16, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In Hitler's great gamble of attacking the Soviet Union in 1941, the legendary victories at Kiev weren't so glorious as standard histories would have us believe - so says a new book on the subject

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February 16, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
david stahel, european history, February 2012, kiev 1941, military history, world war II
February 12, 2012

Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics

February 12, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A massive collection of essays examining all aspects of animal rights.

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February 12, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
animal rights, animals, February 2012, natural history, oxford handbook of animal ethics, r- g- frey, tom l- beauchamp
February 11, 2012

Classics Reissued: What's to Become of the Boy?

February 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A pretty new reprint of the great German writers' memoir of boyhood under the Nazis in Cologne.

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February 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
February 2012, heinrich boll, leila vennewitz, Melville House, memoir, nazi germany, what's to become of the boy
February 09, 2012

Book Review: The Comedy is Finished

February 09, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A series of fortunate events unearths a long-lost manuscript by the late great Donald Westlake! Too good to be true, or too true to be good?

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February 09, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
donald westlake, February 2012, fiction, greg manchess, hard case crime, mystery, mystery fiction, the comedy is finished
February 08, 2012

Book Review: City of Fortune

February 08, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

An intensely readable history of the wars that made - and then broke - the city of Venice as ruler of the seas.

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February 08, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
city of fortune, February 2012, history, roger crowley, venice
February 07, 2012

Now in Paperback: Avengers Prime

February 07, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America - read a great adventure of the Avengers core trio before you feast your eyes on the summer's movie!

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February 07, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
alan davis, avengers prime, brian michael bendis, captain america, February 2012, iron man, thor
February 06, 2012

Book Review: Zoopolis

February 06, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

An eloquent and extremely thought-provoking new formulation of animals deserve from the humans who determine their fates.

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February 06, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
animal rights, animals, February 2012, sue donaldson, will kymlicka, zoopolis
February 05, 2012

Book Review: Quiet

February 05, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A new book praises introverts as the wonderful, sensitive, thoughtful conscience of the brawling, talking human race.

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February 05, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
February 2012, introverts, quiet, susan cain, wussies
February 04, 2012

Book Review: Ghost on the Throne

February 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

When Alexander the Great died at age 32, his huge empire was split apart by his warring successors. James Romm's new book on the subject captures all the brutal drama.

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February 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Alexander the Great, classics, February 2012, ghost on the throne, james romm
February 03, 2012

Classics Reissued: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

February 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A wonderful (and long out of print) adaptation of "SIr Gawain and the Green Knight" by the great 20th century novelist and teacher John Gardner

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February 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Adam Golaski, bernard o'donoghue, burton raffel, February 2012, j-r-r- tolkien, john gardner, Poetry, simon armitage, sir gawain and the green knight, university of chicago press, w- s- merwin
February 01, 2012

Book Review: Star Trek, The Rings of Time

February 01, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Captain Kirk finds himself stranded in the middle of space in the 21st century in this new Star Trek novel.

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February 01, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
February 2012, fiction, greg cox, science fiction, star trek, the rings of time
February 01, 2012

'I am Thy Man'

February 01, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

He fought a world war with France, survived the Black Death, and gave England a real Parliament. Froissart and Chaucer loved him, Shakespeare (almost) wrote about him, and the Victorians disparaged him. He was Edward III, and he has a king-sized new biography from Yale University Press.

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February 01, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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"Good Parliament", A Distant Mirror, Alice Perrers, Barbara Tuchman, Black Death, Black Prince, Book Review, Charles Plummer, chaucer, Constitutional History of England, edward ii, Edward III, February 2012, Froissart, Hundred Years War, John of Gaunt, King Edward III biography, Michael Packe, Nottingham Castle, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Order of the Garter, Philip the Fair, Philip VI, Plantagenet family, Queen Isabella, Queen Philippa, Roger Mortimer, Salisbury Castle, shakespeare, Steve Donoghue, tacitus, The Reign of King Edward III, The Vision of Piers Plowman, W- Mark Ormrod, Wars of the Roses, William Langland, William Montagu, William Stubbs, William the Conqueror, Yale University Press
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