Saturday, May 20, 2023

Ten top novels about the drama of working for the family business

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Olivia Wolfgang-Smith is a Brooklyn-based author of fiction and creative nonfiction. Her debut novel is Glassworks . Wolfgang-Smith’s writ...

Pg. 99: Dinah Hannaford's "Aid and the Help"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care by Dinah Hannaford . Ab...

What is Tanis Rideout reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: Tanis Rideout , author of The Sea Between Two Shores : A Novel . Her entry begins: I tend to have a number of boo...
Friday, May 19, 2023

Fifteen of the best books on the Vietnam war

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George Black is the author of The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam . At LitHub he tagged six "foundati...

Pg. 99: Margaret Gilbert's "Life in Groups"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Life in Groups: How We Think, Feel, and Act Together by Margaret Gilbert . About the book , from the publish...

Pg. 69: Verlin Darrow's "Murder for Liar"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Murder for Liar by Verlin Darrow . About the book, from the publisher: Tom is dangerously close to discoveri...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Top ten strangest alien invasion novels

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Nina Allan is a novelist and critic. Her novels have previously won the British Science Fiction Award, the Kitschies Red Tentacle and the G...

Pg. 99: Beth Bailey's "An Army Afire"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era by Beth Bailey . About the bo...

Q&A with Allison L. Bitz

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From my Q&A with Allison L. Bitz , author of The Unstoppable Bridget Bloom : How much work does your title do to take readers into the ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Three top dangerous affairs in literature

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Zhanna Slor was born in Ukraine and moved to the Midwest in the early 1990s. Her debut novel, At the End of the World, Turn Left , was call...

Pg. 99: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman's "The Two Moralities"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide by Ronnie Janoff-Bulman . ...

Pg. 69: Alicia Bessette's "Murder on Mustang Beach"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Murder on Mustang Beach by Alicia Bessette . About the book , from the publisher: When a killer stirs up tro...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Five unconventional office novels

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Tania Malik was born in New Delhi and raised in India, Africa, and the Middle East. She was educated in boarding schools in the foothills o...

Pg. 99: Harold James's "Seven Crashes"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization by Harold James . About the book, from the publ...

Verlin Darrow's "Murder for Liar," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: Murder for Liar by Verlin Darrow . The entry begins: I didn't have any specific actors in mind when I ...
Monday, May 15, 2023

Eight top taut thrillers set over three days or fewer

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Anna Snoekstra is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, where she writes from an old football ...

Pg. 99: Robin Douglass's "Mandeville’s Fable"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability by Robin Douglass . About the book, from the publisher...

Pg. 69: Jennifer Nissley's "The Rules of Us"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Rules of Us by Jennifer Nissley . About the book , from the publisher: Come out. Break up. Stay friends?...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

What is Verlin Darrow reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: Verlin Darrow , author of Murder for Liar . His entry begins: Lately, I've been revisiting a few of my favori...

Eight books about the lives of single mothers

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Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. She is the author of The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays ...