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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 27, 2020
- 6 min
Thomas Edison's Nasty Marketing Tactics
To win the "Current Wars, Thomas Edison resorted to dirty marketing. He used Westinghouse's current in the electric chair.
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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 21, 2020
- 2 min
Sylvia Plath's Wish. Mine, Too
Sylvia Plath's Wish: To Live, love, and say it well in good sentences. She never understood how well she'd said it.
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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 19, 2020
- 5 min
The Fear of Christmas Future
My friends are all in their 80s and in declining health. The odds of us all being together next Christmas are decreasing every day.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 19, 2020
- 5 min
Why You Need to Develop a Biliterate Brain — and How to Do It
The average American spends more than 6 hours a day reading digitally. We need to develop bilateral brains to process information.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 18, 2020
- 3 min
What Valuable Advice Can You Gift to Other Writers?
When you attend a book signing, ask writers to inscribe their books with one condensed piece of writing wisdom.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Dies by Suicide
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," commits suicide by inhaling chloroform on this on August 17, 1935.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 14, 2020
- 5 min
The Data-Backed Case for Ditching Adverbs
Is the road to hell really paved with adverbs? Data analysis proved that Stephen King was right. The best writing has few adverbs.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 14, 2020
- 6 min
Writers, Hoaxes, and the Psychology of Fraud
What makes writers commit literary fraud? The Education of Little Tree, A Million Little Pieces, Misha, Angel at the Fence are all hoaxes.
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Melissa Gouty
- Aug 14, 2020
- 4 min
4 Conundrums from Doris Lessings' Novel Lecture
Doris Lessing's Nobel Lecture discussed the desire for education in Zimbabwe, and how books and reading are essential to society.
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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 13, 2020
- 4 min
4 Unexpected Ways to Support Indie Bookstores
If you don't have money like James Patterson, you can still support indie bookstores. Do it. A city without a bookstore is a sad place.
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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
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
Guaranteed Good Reads for the Rest of the Year
We never have enough reading time, so you have to choose your books wisely. Here are guaranteed good reads from the Monday Night Book Club.
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