May 13: After months crossing the Atlantic and then weeks exploring the Virginia coast, English settlers anchored at Jamestown on this day in 1607. When the 104 colonists disembarked the next day, they established what would be the first permanent [...]
Wolf Blitzen: This just in: CNNN has it on good authority that this Sunday, May 12th, will be celebrated all over the United States as Mother’s Day. It’s not clear at this time how many mothers and children will be [...]
Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results.
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A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.
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Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.
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A claustrophobic tale of a brazen and imaginative 10-year-old kept in summer isolation with a tenuous caretaker, Flora, during her father’s stint doing secretive World War II work.
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Set against a backdrop of slave revolts and yellow fever, this historical novel delves into the little-mentioned past of former crown colony Jamaica.
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Inspector Chen is at it again in another hard-boiled addition to Qiu Xiaolong’s celebrated mystery series. This time, the Shanghai detective must choose between ruling a Party member’s mysterious death as a suicide and pursuing the sinister truth.
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Inspector Chen is at it again in another hard-boiled addition to Qiu Xiaolong’s celebrated mystery series. This time, the Shanghai detective must choose between ruling a Party member’s mysterious death as a suicide and pursuing the sinister truth.
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Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin.
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