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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Aku-Aku by Thor Heyerdahl

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Chasing secrets on Easter Island Thor Heyerdahl was an explorer who achieved worldwide fame in the 1950s and ‘60s—not quite as famous as ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Forty Lashes Less One by Elmore Leonard

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Smart and suspenseful Western prison thriller Forty Lashes Less One , published in 1972, is a novel by American author Elmore Leonard. N...
Friday, May 1, 2026

The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Part 1: 1832–1839

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Off to a slow start Unlike other A-list names in the history of American literature, Edgar Allan Poe is not known for his novels. He only...
Monday, April 27, 2026

An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion, edited by Charles H. Smith, James T. Costa, and David Collard

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A survey of his career in and beyond biology Alfred Russel Wallace is known as the other British naturalist who formulated the theory of ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Metropolis by Thea von Harbou

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Simplistic dystopian epic adapted into a landmark film The 1927 science fiction film Metropolis , directed by Fritz Lang, is widely consi...
Friday, April 10, 2026

The Terror by Arthur Machen

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Ingenious and spooky WWI thriller Welsh author Arthur Machen (1863–1947) wrote primarily in the horror and fantasy genres, and his work h...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Foma Gordyeff (The Man Who Was Afraid) by Maxim Gorky

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Born into the bourgeoisie Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) is one of the all-time greats in Russian and Soviet literary history, though American r...