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reviewed Two Ravens. February 21, 1999
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Two Ravens
The tale of Bjarni Hoskuldsson who lives a claustrophobic life with his father and young stepmother, brothers and half-brother on a rude Icelandic farm at the tail end of the viking period, this is a …
reviewed The Concubine's Tattoo. February 03, 1999
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The Concubine's Tattoo
The Tokugawa shogunate in the 17th century has been a setting for a number of memorable works: the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, Eiji Yoshikawa's epic novel "Mushashi," and James Clavell's "Shogun." …
reviewed Hoare and the Portsmouth Atrocities. February 03, 1999
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Hoare and the Portsmouth Atrocities
As a British naval officer in the Napoleonic War, an assignment on shore is like exile. Mr. Bartholomew Hoare is permanently in that state at the beginning of "Hoare and the Portsmouth Atrocities," when …
reviewed Writing New York : A Literary Antholo.... February 03, 1999
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Writing New York : A Literary Anthology (Library
This anthology of fiction and memoirs about America's first city offers as vivid a picture of New York City life and attitudes as any history book. Open the book at random, and there is something worth …
reviewed Gotham: A History of New York City to.... February 03, 1999
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Washington, D.C., may be the nation's capital, but New York City is the nation's soul. The fact that we use it as a standard of measurement indicates how we feel about the city. We compare our art, our …
reviewed Hrolf Kraki's Saga. January 09, 1999
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Hrolf Kraki's Saga
In the tradition of high fantasy and magic, Poul Anderson here presents the translated tale of the heathen Danish king, Hrolf Kraki, a sort of pagan King Arthur. In the dark days of the very earliest …
reviewed A Hell of a Dog: A Rachel Alexander a.... January 05, 1999
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A Hell of a Dog: A Rachel Alexander and Dash
It's a dog's life in the mystery genre. The cats get starring roles, author co-credits, even whole series named after them. The doggie detectives are thrown the scraps. Enter Rachel Alexander, the private …
reviewed No Badge, No Gun: A Carl Wilcox Myste.... January 05, 1999
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No Badge, No Gun: A Carl Wilcox Mystery (Carl
For some of us too young to know better, the world of the Depression can seem as foreign a place as Moscow or Outer Mongolia. It was, after all, a half-century ago, before computers, television, the Interstate …
reviewed Detecting Women Pocket Guide: Checkli.... December 15, 1998
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Detecting Women Pocket Guide: Checklist for
It's indicative of the size of the mystery market that the third edition of this book - restricted solely to female writers with active series - still contains more than 3,700 titles in 224 pages. Editor …
reviewed The Seven Crystal Balls (The Adventur.... December 15, 1998
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The Seven Crystal Balls (The Adventures of Tintin)
Herges Tintin comics are Great Classics and in my opinion the best of the genre.   They really are for all ages, some of my best childhood memories are of reading Tintin or Tinni as he is known …
reviewed Johnny Tremain. December 04, 1998
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Johnny Tremain
I read this book as a 10 year old growing up in Australia, and who knew nothing of American history. It was in a nut-shell, absolutely wonderful, and was one of the many books that really made an imapct …
reviewed Robert E. Lee: A Biography. November 26, 1998
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Robert E. Lee: A Biography
Because I spent three summers at Arlington House as a National Park Service ranger, I've read a number of books about Robert E. Lee and his family, including Freeman's four volumes twice. Thomas's biography …
reviewed South Was Right!, The. November 23, 1998
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South Was Right!, The
Kin Hubbard said "'Tain't what a man don't know that hurts him; it's what he does know that just ain't so." Much of what we Americans "know" about the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Civil War …
reviewed Brewer's British Royalty. November 23, 1998
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Brewer's British Royalty
Though not perfect, this is a useful basic reference to the history of Britain's Royal Family. Most of the emphasis is on the individuals who made up that history, and so whether you're researching Diana, …
reviewed Vietnam Reflexes and Reflections. November 19, 1998
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Vietnam Reflexes and Reflections
Vietnam - the war we would all rather forget and bury, so painful are the memories and wounds it engendered on America and on Asia - is at last viewed from the standpoint of artists who lived it. This …
reviewed Blindness (book). November 10, 1998
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Blindness
"Blindness" by Jose Saramago does what few novels accomplish - delivers a monumnetally soul searching journey for 20th century man in an eloquent literary style. It is rare for a first chapter to provide …
reviewed Gates of Fire. November 01, 1998
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Gates of Fire
This book is one of the best historical reads I've stumbled across in a long time. The "voice" is right, never once slipping into anachronistic modernisms and supplying a truly "transparent" medium, easily …
reviewed Cross and Crescent. October 25, 1998
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Cross and Crescent
The basic take-off point of the tale seems to be the machinations and ambitions of Anna Comnenus, the Byzantine princess who celebrated her father, the Emperor Alexius, in her well-known text, The Alexiad, …
reviewed Beach Boy: A Novel. October 24, 1998
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Beach Boy: A Novel
Beach Boy bounds onto the literary world like a mature novel, nudging a place somewhere between Jame Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye". Quirky, unique …
reviewed Adam: The Male Figure in Art. October 24, 1998
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Adam: The Male Figure in Art
Adam; The Male Figure in Art by Edward Lucie-Smith sets out to explore how artists have perceived and represented man as a subject in every form of the arts. With his characteristic enthusiasm and wit …
reviewed Zoo: Animals in Art. October 24, 1998
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Zoo: Animals in Art
Zoo is a small-in-size book, but it is brimming over with clever juxtapositions of styles, periods, techniques of making art about animals. We are again indebted to Lucie-Smith for spicing this beautifully …
reviewed Tara Road. October 20, 1998
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Tara Road
I admire all of Maeve's books and this was eagerly anticipated. The story is true to her usual form, with delightful characters that we can all identify with, but there was something almost disturbing …
reviewed The Rings of Saturn. October 14, 1998
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The Rings of Saturn
Having read "The Emigrants" and being amazed that I had not heard about this author, so fine and unique was his first "translated" book, I grabbed the first volume of "The Rings of Saturn" I could find. …
reviewed Rob Roy. October 01, 1998
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Rob Roy
For those seeking the famous tale on which the recent film wasbased, this will sorely disappoint. This is Scott's tale of a young Englishman, son of a prosperous middle class businessman, who is sent …
reviewed The Talisman. October 01, 1998
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The Talisman
This is a wonderful adventure set in the Holy Land of Crusader fame, a tale of Richard the Lionheart, of his noble knight Sir Kennethof the Leopard (the prince royal of Scotland in disguise) and of the …
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