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| Modern Lit: The Help, by Kathryn |
| 2010-05-10 20:24:58 |
The pie secret Skeeter Phelan, new college grad, wants to become a serious writer. Following the advice of a New York editor, she decides to write about something that bothers her, the treatment given by her mother and friends to their household help. As she begins interviewing the maids, Skeeter opens her mind to the [...]...
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| Monday Morning Poem: The Rose Family |
| 2010-05-10 03:22:56 |
by Robert Frost The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple’s a rose, And the pear is, and so’s The plum, I suppose. The dear only know What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose– But were always a rose....
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| It’s a Mystery: The Concrete Blonde, by Michael Connelly |
| 2010-05-07 15:52:50 |
One of the best The third in the Harry Bosch series is one of the best of the entire thirteen currently available (yes, I’ve read them all). This entry has everything. Hard boiled Harry is the defendant in a civil trial, the plaintiff the widow of a suspected serial killer, “The Dollmaker”, whom Harry shot [...]...
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| History News: The Lost Colony of Roanoke |
| 2010-05-06 17:23:29 |
Excerpts from guardian.co.uk : “A mayor in north Devon is attempting to help rewrite American history by proving that people from his small port town settled in the US 30 years before the Pilgrim Fathers set sail. At the centre of the saga is the story of the “lost colony”, a tale better known in [...]...
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| Historical Fiction: Dark Fire, by C. J. Sansom |
| 2010-05-04 16:11:50 |
WMD Lawyer Matthew Shardlake’s second assignment from Thomas Cromwell is even more harrowing than the first (Dissolution). Cromwell knows he’s in trouble with his king because of the disastrous Cleves marriage brokered by him, and, as ever when Henry VIII has a problem, he looks for someone else to blame. Cromwell’s pinned his hopes and [...]...
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| Monday Morning Poem: The Shearer’s Dream |
| 2010-05-03 02:58:16 |
by Henry Lawson O I dreamt I shore in a shearing shed and it was a dream of joy For every one of the rouseabouts was a girl dressed up as a boy Dressed up like a page in a pantomime the prettiest ever seen They had flaxen hair they had coal black hair and [...]...
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| It’s a Mystery: Unhallowed Ground, by Heather Graham |
| 2010-05-02 17:28:03 |
Saved by the ghost A historical house in one of the oldest cities in America, St. Augustine. An attractive single woman, with training in history and forensics, who has loved the house since her childhood and has finally been able to buy it. Skeletons in the walls, never mind the closets! I was hoping for [...]...
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| It’s a Mystery: Scarpetta, by Patricia Cornwell |
| 2010-05-02 16:54:40 |
Go figure About a year has passed since her nightmarish encounter with buddy Pete Marino, and Kay Scarpetta has relocated to Boston and NYC with her new husband, Benton Wesley. Just as some salacious gossip about Kay and Marino appears in the schlocky online column “Gotham Gotcha”, Benton phones Kay with a request to see [...]...
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| It’s a Mystery: Total Recall, by Sara Paretsky |
| 2010-04-27 20:22:00 |
Lotty’s story Sara Paretsky never shies away from burning social issues, and in Total Recall, she takes on insurance fraud and cultural guilt surrounding holocaust and slavery victims. VI takes on the largest insurance company in the state of Illinois, when a bereaved family asks her to find out how their deceased relative’s life policy [...]...
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| History News: The Real Noah’s Ark? |
| 2010-04-27 15:05:40 |
A group of Chinese and Turkish researchers from Noah’s Ark Ministries International has announced that they have discovered the remains of a 4800 year old wooden structure, which they are “99.9 percent sure” is the real Noah’s Ark. They say that their find closely resembles the historical description of the long-sought-after craft in many details, [...]...
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