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 11, 2020
- 2 min
“We must love another or die”
It’s eerie how W. H. Auden’s poem, “September 1, 1939,” written more than 80 years ago, dovetailed so precisely with September 11, 2011.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 11, 2020
- 5 min
TODAY Is the Day to Celebrate Mary Oliver
I'm celebrating Mary Oliver on her birthday, September 10th, because she gave the world a gift of her poetry.
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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
- Sep 7, 2020
- 4 min
Marketing "Mulan" and the Future of Movies
If Disney can be profitable with Mulan, more films will be released for streaming at home. Theaters might be a thing of the past.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 2, 2020
- 2 min
Ray Bradbury and the Electrified Sword
Ray Bradbury got started with a daily writing habit after he was touched by an electrified sword in 1932.
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Melissa Gouty
- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
Skinny-Dipping in the Aegean Sea
Female friendhip frees you and encourages you to be yourself at any time, in any place in the world, in any circumstance - even naked.
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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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