Sarah Bailey is an Australian crime writer, author of the bestselling The Dark Lake and Into the Night, and managing […]
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Manson family murders: New book claims CIA figures linked to mastermind behind 1969 killings
On a sweltering morning 50 years ago this month, a maid arriving at a secluded Beverly Hills estate found a […]
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Cowardly massacre of the innocent at Peterloo
Cowardly massacre of the innocent at Peterloo: Robert Poole’s scholarly new book delves into the bloodiest event on English soil […]
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
I’m not a big consumer of technology, on the whole — I mean, I work in the Books department of […]
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Can the American West Be Saved?
SHADOWLANDSFear and Freedom at the Oregon StandoffBy Anthony McCann THIS LANDHow Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American WestBy […]
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Barack Obama reveals summer reading list for 2019
Just because it’s already the middle of August (where did the time go?!) doesn’t mean it’s too late to get […]
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New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Ernest Hemingway to the Baby-Sitters Club
Recent audiobooks of note: HEMINGWAY STORIES, by Ernest Hemingway, read by John Bedford Lloyd. (Simon & Schuster Audio.) New recordings […]
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The Perfect Wife: The widowed tech guru and his cyborg wife
Thriller writer JP Delaney clearly has a problem with “masters of the universe” type men. Not so much the old-school […]
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A Coming-of-Age as American as Apple Pie
GODS WITH A LITTLE GBy Tupelo Hassman In the main, teenage girls don’t fare well in literature. With a few […]
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‘I Just Peeked Into Their World and Took Notes’: Yoko Ogawa Conjures Spirits in Hiding
ASHIYA, Japan — When Yoko Ogawa discovered “The Diary of Anne Frank” as a lonely teenager in Japan, she was […]
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