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Friday, March 1, 2024
Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom, by McCracken Poston
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9780806542799 Citadel, 2024 320 pp arc -- my many thanks to the publisher along with my apologies for getting to this so late. I'm not...
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Fear is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance, by Azam Ahmed
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9780593448410 Random House, 2023 374 pp hardcover read in December 2023 I came across this book after seeing it written up in The New Yo...
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Fifty Forgotten Books, by R.B. Russell
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9781913505509 And Other Stories, 2022 224 pp paperback Fifty Forgotten Books is, according to author and Tartarus Press co-founder R.B. R...
Saturday, December 17, 2022
In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, A Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press, by Katherine Corcoran
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" A society without truth is a scary place to live." 9781635575033 Bloomsbury, 2022 315 pp hardcover In the preface of this exce...
Monday, August 29, 2022
We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School For Boys, by Erin Kimmerle
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" They was throwaways." 9780063030244 William Morrow, 2022 241 pp hardcover It wasn't all that long ago that I read Colson W...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War by Hiroo Onoda
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9781557506634 Bluejacket Books/Naval Institute Press, 1999 originally published 1974 translated by Charles S. Terry paperback 219 pp I bou...
Friday, April 22, 2022
Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography, by R.B. Russell
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9781912586363 Tartarus Press, 2022 396 pp hardcover, signed, #326 My introduction to Robert Aickman's stories came some years back via t...
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