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Book Review: Turbulence by Giles Foden
Turbulence plays a role in science and life is main theme of novel based on forecasting weather for D-Day.
Read More »Book Review: God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette is his usual brash and candid self in writing about what might be called the Penn Commandments.
Read More »Book Review: After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
Slim novel effectively portrays life in pre-war Nazi Germany through the eyes of a young ingenue.
Read More »Book Review: Let There Be Pebble: A Middle-Handicapper’s Year in America’s Garden of Golf by Zachary Michael Jack
Total immersion into locale and culture forms foundation for exploration of Pebble Beach Golf Links.
Read More »Book Review: Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
Literary device helps drive allegorical tale amidst Portugal's society and authoritarian government in 1938.
Read More »Book Review: The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: The First English Translation of Verne’s Original Manuscript by Jules Verne
First English translation of original Jules Verne manuscript appears a century after being written.
Read More »Book Review: Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True by Kris Saknussemm
Second addition to unconventional series of novels undermined by failure to acknowledge its predecessor or the series.
Read More »Book Review: The Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom
Memorable central character narrates first novel's exploration of the landscape of a social outcast.
Read More »Book Review: Death as a Side Effect by Ana María Shua
Traditional conflicts and contemporary issues drive novel set in a dystopian near-future Buenos Aires.
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