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This is simply the best and most comprehensive book on Ted Williams' heroic wartime experiences. Period.
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Book Review: Smart Blonde – Dolly Parton by Stephen Miller
This unauthorized biography may satisfy inquiring minds until Parton finishes her impending autobiography.
Read More »Book Review: Finding Iris Chang – Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind by Paula Kamen
A friend looks at Iris Chang's life and why the bestselling author would take her own life at age 36.
Read More »Book Review: The Tales Of Beedle The Bard by J. K. Rowling
Rowling once again manages to immerse us completely in a world where magic is part of the fabric of existence.
Read More »Book Review: Return to Chauvet Cave – Excavating the Birthplace of Art: The First Full Report by Jean Clottes
The closest we can get to the brilliantly preserved traces of the previous users - human and animal.
Read More »Book Review: Human Landscapes From My Country – An Epic Novel In Verse By Nazim Hakmet
Hikmet has created a panoramic view of Turkey and her people.
Read More »Book Review: Marie Antoinette – The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever
No, she wasn't faithful, but the reasons for that were understandable, and human.
Read More »Book Review: The Real Queen of France – Athenais and Louis XIV by Lisa Hilton
We can do with positive, approving accounts of powerful women – particularly those who've started from practically nowhere.
Read More »Book Review: A Snowball In Hell by Christopher Brookmyre
Brookmyre is one of the best social critics going as well as being one of the most original crime fiction writers you'll ever read.
Read More »Book Review: In The Convent Of Little Flowers By Indu Sundaresan
Stories full of compassion for all those caught up in the confusion of a country trying to find its way out of a dark past and into a better tomorrow.
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