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    One might expect the 14-page Introduction to provide the author's raison d'être for the book but that doesn't happen.

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    You were drawn to this review because of the bold title, right?

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    It may be a shame that Marcia Clark spent so many years as a prosecutor for the County of Los Angeles.

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    In Paula Daly’s new mystery, Open Your Eyes her protagonist, Jane Campbell is a wife, a mother, and a would-be author. The first page of the story is a rejection letter . . .

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    “Jenny Diski is an absorbing, savagely witty, insatiably curious, and gifted writer. She is direct, unafraid, and full of surprises.”

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    “Fair warning: Lock your doors and turn on ALL the lights before you sit down to read. This book starts out with a bang.”

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    By any standards, Brian Fagan is a leading authority on archaeology, and, with 46 books on the subject to his credit, he is among the world’s leading popularizers of the field.

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    Prolific author Stuart Woods has teamed up with co-author Parnell Hall to write this fast-moving romp of a book, a cross between an old hardboiled '50s black and white crime film and a fast moving

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    The setting in Yorkshire, in the town of Saltaire, provides a perfect location for murder—actually, several deaths.

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    “this novel is definitely a page-turner.”

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    “While the reader can feel compassion for Ms. Janowitz . . . he would not wish in a million years to . . . ever again read another volume of her memoirs.”

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    “In the end, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh stands head and shoulders above myriad other works that purport to tell the ‘whole’ story of Tennessee Williams, his li

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    “in a volume that runs for some 600 pages, not a single word seems wasted, not a sentence seems too long.” 

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    “Gall’s collages will cause much shoulder shrugging, eye rolling, and brain scratching. And thank heavens for that.” 

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    “Inhuman Land is a vivid lesson of what that war entailed, conveyed with an artist’s eye, and well worth reading.”

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    “. . . this quick read is chock full of complications.”

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    “Rampage reminds us once again that man’s inhumanity to man belies the notion of human progress.

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    “We should all live such lives—dreaming and attaining, loving and lusting—and look so good when we sit down to write our memoirs. . . .

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    “Heavey is a master of the comedic non sequitur and has a fine-tuned sense of the overall absurdities of the human condition.”

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