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Monday, December 3, 2018

New Folks’ Home and Other Stories: The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume Six

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One bad apple in a tasty bushel New Folks’ Home and Other Stories, published in 2016, is the sixth volume in a projected 14-volume ser...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

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Intense legal drama and revenge thriller Michael Kohlhaas, a novel by Heinrich von Kleist, is a remarkable book that most American rea...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

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Murder mystery with Church history The Name of the Rose, first published in 1980, is the highly acclaimed first novel by Italian autho...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Rebel Raider by H. Beam Piper

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Entertaining nonfiction Civil War biography I’m a fan of H. Beam Piper’s writings in science fiction, and I read this work as the final ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster

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Post-apocalyptic nature writing Science fiction writer Murray Leinster’s novella The Mad Planet was first published in the June 12, 1920...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnaeus by William MacGillivray

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The king of classification and his predecessors Carl Linnaeus William MacGillivray (1796-1852) was a Scottish naturalist. His name ...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter

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The quietest of thrillers Rock Crystal, a novella by Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, was originally published in 1845 under the Germ...