Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Five top crime novels about troubled teens

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Tessa Wegert is the author of the popular Shana Merchant mysteries, which include Death in the Family (a Book Riot Best Locked Room Myster...
Tuesday, December 05, 2023

Pg. 69: Tracy Clark's "Fall"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Fall (Detective Harriet Foster) by Tracy Clark . About the book, from the publisher: In the second book in...

Pg. 99: Leslie Butler's "Consistent Democracy"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century America by Les...

Ten memoirs and essay collections by Black women

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Alicia Simba is a writer and educator living and working in Oakland, California. She has been published in Teen Vogue , Slate , Blavity , a...
Monday, December 04, 2023

Chris McKinney's "Sunset, Water City," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: Sunset, Water City by Chris McKinney . The entry begins: Cartoons! Well, more specifically anime. I’d lov...

Five of the best holiday crime novels

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Born and raised in West Lothian, Catriona McPherson left Edinburgh University with a PhD in Linguistics and worked in academia, as well as ...

Pg. 99: Whitney Barlow Robles's "Curious Species"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History by Whitney Barlow Robles . About the book, from the publis...
Sunday, December 03, 2023

Pg. 69: M. M. DeLuca's "The Night Side"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Night Side by M.M. DeLuca . About the book, from the publisher: Twenty years of secrets. One deadly tru...

Seven top mystery novels with the best twists

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Emily Bain Murphy was born in Indiana and raised in Hong Kong and Japan. She graduated from Tufts University and has also called Massachuse...
Saturday, December 02, 2023

Q&A with Chris McKinney

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From my Q&A with Chris McKinney , author of Sunset, Water City : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? Wh...

Pg. 99: Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson's "Working-Class Raj"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Working-Class Raj: Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India by Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson . About...

Seven top books about authorship hoaxes

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Ayden LeRoux is a queer writer and critic from New England. Once upon a time she attended culinary school, worked as a cheesemaker on a goa...
Friday, December 01, 2023

Pg. 69: S.J. Rozan's "The Mayors of New York"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Mayors of New York : A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery by S. J. Rozan . About the book, from the publisher:...

Pg. 99: Zachary Brodt's "From the Steel City to the White City"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World's Columbian Exposition by Zacha...

Ten horror novels for the holidays

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Erika Johansen grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She went to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, attended the Iowa Writers' Worksho...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

M. M. DeLuca's "The Night Side," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Night Side by M.M. DeLuca . The entry begins: Since I’m also a keen screenwriter, I always need to vi...

Pg. 99: Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar's "America's Black Capital"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy by Jeffrey...

Five titles in which rich people (think they can) get away with murder

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Charlotte Vassell studied History at the University of Liverpool and completed a Master’s in Art History at SOAS before training as an acto...