by bertbaby | Dec 24, 2013 | Book Reviews
Dickens did not quite “invent” Christmas, as it is sometimes claimed, but, ever since A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, Scrooge’s Yuletide nightmares and joyful Christmas morning have become as much a part of the popular idea of the...
by bertbaby | Dec 24, 2013 | Book Reviews
December 24: “Who are these scribes who…sway with such serene incapacity the office which they so lately swept?”
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
Discover why 104 year old reclusive heiress Huguette Clark — at the center of a heated battle over a Gilded Age industrialist’s estate and $300 million inheritance –was for decades a hermit entirely removed from the outside world. One of Barnes and...
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
The most intriguing, arresting, and informative works of nonfiction for 2013
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
Dublin native Colum McCann crisscrosses oceans and eras in a multigenerational saga that pulls both Irish and American figures out of history and into a singular work of imagination, adventure and emotion. One of Barnes and Noble’s Best New Fiction Books...
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
Greg Baxter’s single-day tale of an American ex-pat on an apartment search with a mysterious woman cleverly weaves a simple love story with meditations on current tensions between the US and a new Europe.
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