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Feast Days by Ian MacKenzie

Feast Days by Ian MacKenzie

by L Ruby Hannigan | Nov 5, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction

Feast Days is the narrative voice of Emma, the ex-patriot wife of her husband [no name], who has a well paying bank job. This young, upwardly mobile couple leave New York to live in in San Paulo, Brazil. Emma finds herself trying hard to fit in with this rich social...
Caesar’s Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

Caesar’s Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

by Howard Leighton | Mar 14, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Mathematics, Science & Technology

Most of us know there is oxygen and carbon dioxide in our air (atmosphere). Sam Kean makes a book about the makeup of the atmosphere interesting and entertaining. This book is actually about the atmosphere of the earth and the air we breathe. As a way of introduction...
Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France by Moriz Scheyer

Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France by Moriz Scheyer

by Sarah Hutchins | Dec 21, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Religion, War & Military

How many new memoirs or semi-autobiographical memoirs are left to add to the collective understanding of WWII and its atrocities? Shortly after Elie Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, died in July 2016, Time Magazine reported that just 100,000 holocaust...
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill

Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill

by Howard Leighton | Sep 20, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Reference, Social Science

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] “Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?” asked Elizabeth Bennett, “Not if I can help it.” replied Mr....
Now and Again by Charlotte Rogan

Now and Again by Charlotte Rogan

by Seniye Groff | Jul 15, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, War & Military

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Maggie Rayburn works at a munitions plant where, although...
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