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September 24, 2011

Book Review: Mary I

September 24, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A quietly stunning new biography of England's infamous "Bloody Mary"

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September 24, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
Keeping Up w/ the Tudors
biography, english history, john edwards, Keeping up with the tudors, Mary I, mary tudor, September 2011, the tudors
September 20, 2011

Book Review: Star Trek: Cast No Shadow

September 20, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A new Star Trek novel attempts to answer some old Star Trek questions

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September 20, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
james swallow, September 2011, spock, star trek, star trek fiction, star trek: cast no shadow, valeris
September 18, 2011

Book Review: Letters to Friends

September 18, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Sooner or later, Harvard's glorious I Tatti Renaissance Library gets around to everybody.

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September 18, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
alessandro daneloni, bartolomeo fonzio, harvard university press, i tatti renaissance library, letters to friends, martin davies, renaissance literature, September 2011
September 15, 2011

Book Review: Animal

September 15, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A stunning - and miraculously hopeful - update to DK's legendary guide to animals

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September 15, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
animal, animals, dk, dorling-kindersley, nature, September 2011, Smithsonian
September 11, 2011

Book Review: Dark Jenny

September 11, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Mallory meets Mike Hammer in the latest Eddie LaCrosse adventure

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September 11, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
September 2011
September 08, 2011

Book Review: The Dark Earl

September 08, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The truth is stranger - and more welcome - than fiction in Romance legend Virginia Henley's latest.

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September 08, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
September 2011
September 07, 2011

Graphic Novel: Justice

September 07, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Writer Jim Krueger, artist Doug Braithwaite, and fan-favorite superhero painter Alex Ross create the ultimate Justice League adventure.

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September 07, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
alex ross, comics, dc comics, doug braithwaite, jim krueger, justice, justice league, September 2011
September 05, 2011

Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed

September 05, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A new history of ancient Rome's greatest adversary, the doomed empire of Carthage.

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September 05, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
ancient history, carthage must be destroyed, cathage, richard miles, Rome, September 2011
September 04, 2011

Now in Paperback: By Nightfall

September 04, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The paperback release of Michael Cunningham's latest novel, a deft portrait of middle-aged might-have-been lust

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September 04, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
By Nightfall, contemporary fiction, fiction, Michael Cunningham, now in paperback, September 2011
September 01, 2011

Now in Paperback: Tutankhamun

September 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

An engrossing novel featuring the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun and his steely chief of detectives, Rahotep.

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September 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
fiction, historical fiction, nick drake, September 2011, tutankhamun, tutankhamun: book of shadows
August 31, 2011

Classics Reissued: TheThree Musketeers

August 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

All for one and one straight to HBO2! Huzzah!

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September 2011
August 31, 2011

Changeable Camelion

August 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Courtier and cleric, adventurer and ascetic, man of faith and man of the world — John Donne was many things in his life, and a sprawling new Companion does its best to assess them all.

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August 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
Poetry, History
Alison Shell, Biathanatos, David lodge, Dennis Flynn, Dryden, English Reformation, Essential Articles, G- A- Stringer, Gregory Kneidel, Indiana University Press, James I, jane austen, Jeanne Shami, Johan Sommerville, John Donne, Judith Scherer Herz, Kirsten Sterling, M- Thomas Hester, Michael Price, Morris Zapp, Norton Critical Edition, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Oxford University Press, patrick Collinson, Poetry Review, Problems of Literary Interpretation that have been traditionally and generall..., R- V- Young, R-C- Bald, Robert Cecil, September 2011, Sir Robert Ker, Steve Donoghue, The Oxford Handbook of John Donne
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