If You Love Elephants, Read These Two Very Different Books
If you love elephants, read Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult and The Elephant Company by Vicki Croke. Two books that both honor elephants.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 22, 2020
- 3 min
One Book That Will Make You a Better Writer
Ben Blatt's book Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve uses data to examine the elements of great writing: similes, cliches, adverbs, and more.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 22, 2020
- 4 min
The Overstory: An Epic Tale of Our Relationship with Trees
The best in environmental fiction, Richard Powers' The Overstory depicts the intertwined destiny of humans and trees.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 13, 2020
- 5 min
The Precarious Balance of Life in "The Atomic Weight of Love"
The Atomic Weight of Love is a story of a woman trying to find herself, torn between dreams and demands and the secrets of Los Alamos.
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Melissa Gouty
- Oct 12, 2020
- 4 min
Rebecca, Du Maurier's Gothic Novel, Comes Again To Haunt Us
I got a thrill from reading du Maurier's Rebecca years ago. I got another thrill when I found out that Netflix is releasing the movie.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
"Dune" Will Come Again
Frank Herbert's science fiction Classic, Dune, is being remade into a new full-length feature film to be released in December 2020.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Beneath a Scarlet Sky provides a look at how WWII impacted the citizens of Italy and the true story of one boy who becomes a spy and a hero.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
Ramsey's Gold: An Escape Adventure Just for Fun
Treasure-hunting novels like Ramsey's Gold remind me that reading doesn't have to be serious. It's can be a fun escape into adventure.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 9, 2020
- 4 min
The Post Office Mural Project in the Novel "Big Lies in a Small Town"
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain uses the Post Office Mural Project as the basis for a compelling story of art and compassion.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 8, 2020
- 5 min
The Vietnamese Immigrant Experience: A Mother-Daughter Tale of Angst
A Family in Six Tones is brutally honest, mother-daughter account of coming to America when Saigon fell and the lifelong effects on both.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 31, 2020
- 4 min
See the World in Vibrant Color with The Rainbow Atlas
The Rainbow Atlas shows the world and all its peoples in brilliant living color in both natural and created settings.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 28, 2020
- 7 min
The Overlooked German Perspective of WWII
The Women in the Castle presents the German perspective during Hitler's time, attempting to answer the question, "How Did This Happen?
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 26, 2020
- 4 min
We Need a Veracity Scale for Historical Fiction
Wouldn’t it be nice if when you bought historical fiction, you'd know how much is fact and how much is fiction? We need a veracity scale.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 24, 2020
- 5 min
3 Books About Wartime Women Who Rocked the World
Three recent books tell the important stories of women whose impact is still felt today: a codebreaker, an actress, and an amputee spy.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 23, 2020
- 4 min
Electrifying the World - and the Reader
Graham Moore’s The Last Days of Night, published in 2016, is the stunning story of how America came to be electrified in the late 1800s.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 19, 2020
- 6 min
The Cottingly Fairy Photo Hoax
People actually believed in fairies, as evidenced in the Cottingly Fairy Photo hoax. Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book is a fun parody.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 13, 2020
- 3 min
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds by Ian Wright
Brilliant Maps delivers a zinger to your mind in the form of infographic-maps. Easy to see and quick to decipher in bold, boisterous color.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
How a Woman of No Importance Won a War and Changed the World
The French Resistance was organized by Virginia Hall, a spy - and amputee-- who provided valuable intelligence during WWII.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 29, 2020
- 3 min
Everyone Dies Famous
Len Joy's Everyone Dies Famous draws on the cherished tradition of small-town literature where lives overlap, circle, and collide daily.
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Melissa Gouty
- Jul 23, 2020
- 6 min
Can You Help the Madwoman In the Asylum?
Alex Michaelides relies on the long-standing tradition of female insanity in fiction in his suspense novel, The Silent Patient.
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