“Know your enemies, know your friends, avoid surprise at all costs.” That, according to Alan Furst’s latest novel, is the first rule of espionage.
Such a caveat, in the autumn of 1937, bore down on Poland with a vengeance. Hemmed in by perennial enemies Germany and the Soviet Union, the nation trembled for its future. While [...]
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May
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May
Chris Wiegand talks to the creators of two very dissimilar detectives, both at work in Istanbul’s meanest streets.
Crime fiction aficionados know Istanbul as the beat of Cetin Ikmen, the shabby, middle-aged Turkish cop created by English novelist Barbara Nadel. A former actress who lives in the Pennines and was raised in London’s East End, her [...]
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May
Elderly Womans Life Turns To Chaos After Robbery In Exciting New Novel
Posted by admin Published in Novel SummaryMary Lou Friedman, a spunky 86-year-old with an ailing husband, is being threatened by hoodlums in her Cincinnati neighborhood, forcing her to fight for her family and home in Dorothy Weil’s latest novel, “A Good Woman” (ISBN 9781891386855, Plainview Press, 2008). Two thugs break into her home to steal her television and continually threaten her, [...]
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Apr
Jodi Picoult�s latest novel, Change of Heart, is sure to cause debate among its readers. In it, Picoult�s four narrators, who take turns telling the story, grapple with challenging questions that certainly provoke a great deal of thought. Narrator June Nealon asks perhaps the toughest questions: �Would you give up your vengeance against someone you [...]
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Mar
Best-selling author Laurie R. King will be at Mesquite Library this weekend to promote her latest novel. Touchstone, set in England during the General Strike of 1926, allowed King to explore terrorism in a historical setting.
King, who last visited the Valley in 2006, anticipates that fans of the Kate Martinelli series, or the historical mysteries [...]
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Mar
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Even in death Arthur C. Clarke would not compromise his vision.
The famed science fiction writer, who once denigrated religion as “a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species,” left written instructions that his funeral be completely secular, according to his aides.
“Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to [...]
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Mar
Best-selling author Laurie R. King will be at Mesquite Library this weekend to promote her latest novel. Touchstone, set in England during the General Strike of 1926, allowed King to explore terrorism in a historical setting.
King, who last visited the Valley in 2006, anticipates that fans of the Kate Martinelli series, or the historical mysteries [...]
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Mar
It is a moment famous in Chinese literature: a crowd of Chinese watch passively as a young patriot is led to his execution. Written by Lu Xun in the 1920s, this scene comes from A Call to Arms, a literary wake-up call to throw off the limitations of traditional culture. Perhaps as famous now, at [...]
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Mar
Best-selling author Laurie R. King will be at Mesquite Library this weekend to promote her latest novel. Touchstone, set in England during the General Strike of 1926, allowed King to explore terrorism in a historical setting.
King, who last visited the Valley in 2006, anticipates that fans of the Kate Martinelli series, or the historical mysteries [...]
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Mar
Best-selling author Laurie R. King will be at Mesquite Library this weekend to promote her latest novel. Touchstone, set in England during the General Strike of 1926, allowed King to explore terrorism in a historical setting.
King, who last visited the Valley in 2006, anticipates that fans of the Kate Martinelli series, or the historical mysteries [...]
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