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Tracks Along the Left Coast by Andrew Schelling

Tracks Along the Left Coast by Andrew Schelling

by Sarah Hutchins | May 1, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, NW Setting, Travel

Jaime de Angulo, born in Spain and raised in France, became a legend in California, particularly around the Big Sur as a self-trained linguist and ethnologist, a novelist, and a poet. He traveled around California learning native languages and stories and even studied...

Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned from my Mother’s Recipe Box

by Site Owner | Feb 26, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Cooking, Food & Drinks

Memoir Based  on Mother’s Recipe Box By Nancy Spiller Counterpoint, $26.00, 160 pages If you are interested in personal memoirs, Compromise Cake is likely to be an absorbing reading for you. Author Nancy Spiller is a food writer and her writing is superb, easy...

Any Resemblance to Actual Persons: A Novel

by Site Owner | Feb 10, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller

By Kevin Allardice Counterpoint, $24.00, 240 pages In Kevin Allardice’s novel, Any Resemblance to Actual Persons, what begins as a standard letter to the editor quickly devolves into a stream of consciousness as Paul McWeeney begins to loose track of reality. Paul...
Apricot Jam: And Other Stories

Apricot Jam: And Other Stories

by Site Owner | Apr 4, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories

By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Counterpoint, $28.00, 375 pages Apricot Jam and Other Stories is a collection of interconnected tales by literary great Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the 1970 Nobel Prize winner whose works helped inform the world of the Gulag. Solzhenitsyn, who...

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