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Mary Beth Keane's Fever is a hit with BookBrowse readers. 22 out of 23 reviewers gave it 4 or 5 stars! Here is what they say about the book that puts a real face to the name Typhoid Mary:
Heart wrenching and dark but I was unable to put the book down. Amidst the churning and changing of bustling New York City Mary is trying to find understanding and meaning and some...
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In an ideal world, we would each have the freedom to explore our passions, to figure out the kind of person we really are, and then strive to become that person. This basic principle, containing hints of the American ideal of the pursuit of happiness, might have been the foundation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, a play written more than 100 years ago, but its continuing relevance...
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Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. That's certainly the case with the story Wendy Moore tells in How to Create a Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Quest to Train the Ideal Mate. Moore combines engaging storytelling with exhaustive and impressive research as she brings to life the misadventures of the eighteenth-century gentleman Thomas...
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Erica Brown accomplishes much with her new book, Happier Endings: Overcoming the Fear of Death, not the least of which is writing an engaging and uplifting manual on ways to die well. Brown blends humor, personal experience and solid research in her quest to learn about every aspect of mortality. Where other books focus on one aspect of death, such as grief, ethics or commercial concerns,...
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Lyndsay Faye
Lyndsay Faye discusses her latest book, Gods of Gotham, and the difficulties in creating such a vivid description of New York in 1845.
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The Laws of Gravity
by Liz Rosenberg.
Publishes: 05/07/2013.
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An exquisite tour de force, The Laws of Gravity is a testament to what it means to be a family, what it takes to save a life, and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love.
Two families, bound by blood, hear terrible news. One decision holds the...
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U.S. ebook sales up in 2012, but rate of growth is slowing (May 16 2013) In 2012, trade book sales (i.e. non academic book sales) rose 6.9%, to $15.049 billion, and e-book sales continued to grow, although the rate of growth slowed.
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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| 5/11/2013: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand is the first novel of British-born American author, Helen Simonson. Major Ernest...
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Menna van Praag
Menna van Praag talks about her recent book, The House at the End of Hope Street, and the inspiration behind the book and its characters.
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Erica Brown
Erica Brown talks about finding humor in writing Happier Endings, a book about death.
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Helga Weiss
An interview with artist and Holocaust survivor Helga Weiss, who wrote Helga's Diary, about her time in a concentration camp.
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Kate Morton talks about why and how she writes.
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