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I’ve seen Bridge of Spies. I’ve even seen Spies Like Us. What else do I need to know about the Cold War? But seriously, books like The Brotherhood of Spies are exactly why I read nonfiction. This work cuts through the history books, connects the dots, and fleshes out the story with entertaining profiles, facts,... Continue Reading →
"I’ve made corpses before but never loved it." Alma Rosales can be many things: a Pinkerton agent, a naive young Scottish girl, a gruff dock worker, a poor Southern worker woman. A shape-shifter, a chameleon, one who is willing to play any angle to get the information she needs. Now in Townsend, Washington working for Delphine... Continue Reading →
As an addicted reader and an English teacher, people always ask me about my favorite books. Or they want me to just pick one. That's impossible. There's a difference between one's last meal, and a good meal. I have no plans for getting ready for my last anything any time soon. It's the same... Continue Reading →
‘Where there’s woods, there’s wacky…’ Paula Munier’s A Borrowing of Bones is an exciting thriller set in Vermont with two well-trained canines as the star detectives. The author brings together a bomb-sniffing Malinois named Elvis, who has some PTSD symptoms, and a Search and Rescue Newfoundland named Susie Bear. Armed with few clues, former MP... Continue Reading →
The adult world is... built on the shifting grounds of friendship and competition. The double message of this society and economy are to get along and get ahead. We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals. -Ellen Goodman Goodman wrote this passage in her... Continue Reading →
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