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August 13, 2011

Book Review: Sympathy for the Devil

August 13, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

In their latest outing, intrepid paranormal investigators Morris and Chastain look into an American presidential candidate who seems too good to be true.

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August 2011, fantasy, fiction, justin gustainis, science fiction, sympathy for the devil
August 11, 2011

Book Review: The Fallen Blade

August 11, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A terrific new fantasy novel set in an alternate 15th century Venice.

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August 2011, fantasy, jon courtenay grimwood, science fiction, the fallen blade, Vampires, venice
August 09, 2011

Book Review: Happy Birthday

August 09, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

In Danielle Steel's latest, a celebrity hostess and an aging football hero both wonder if they're too old to fall in love again.

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American fiction, August 2011, contemporary fiction, danielle steel, fiction, happy birthday
August 06, 2011

Book Review: Sons of Encouragement

August 06, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

An anthology volume from a titan of the Christian fiction genre

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August 2011, christian fiction, fiction, francine rivers, sons of encouragement
August 03, 2011

New in Paperback: Anno Dracula

August 03, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The long-awaited re-issue of one of the greatest, most triumphantly inventive vampire novels of all time.

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August 03, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
August 2011
July 31, 2011

Book Review: Supergods

July 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A compact and lively history of superhero comics, from one of the most popular writers currently working in the industry.

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August 2011
July 31, 2011

A Very Ordinary Person

July 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

When his brother the king abdicated, shy Prince Bertie suddenly became king - and he was just settling in when the World War II threw his kingdom into chaos. 'A Year with the Windsors' continues.

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July 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
A Year With The Windsors, Features, History, Politics & History
A Year With The Windsors, Admiral Leahy, Adolph Hitler, August 2011, Battle of Agincourt, Battle of Jutland, Bertie, Buckingham Palace, Clement Attlee, Duke of Windsor, Duke of York, Edward VIII, Elizabeth, first world war, Franklin Roosevelt, George III, George v, George VI, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, House of Windsor, John Wheeler-Bennett, Lord Mountbatten, Margaret Rose, Marlborough House, Nagasaki, neville chamberlain, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Pearl Harbor, Pericles, Prince Albert, Prince Eddy, Prince of Wales, Queen Mary, quisling, Sarah Bradford, Sir Gerald Kelly, Spanish Armada, Steve Donoghue, Third Reich, U-S-S- Augusta, Wallis Simpson, Westminster Abbey, Winston Churchill
July 27, 2011

Book Review: Dead Alert

July 27, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A zippy summertime adventure story featuring hissable bad guys, sexy good guys, a man-made plague of zombies, and an explosion or two.

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July 27, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
bianca d'arc, dead alert, fiction, July 2011, paranormal romance, romance
July 24, 2011

Book Review: Queen Defiant

July 24, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

An involving new historical novel about the legendary (and all too real) Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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July 24, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
anne o'brien, eleanor of aquitaine, historical fiction, July 2011, queen defiant
July 14, 2011

Book Review: The Last Vikings

July 14, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The Greenland settlements founded by the infamous Erik the Red lasted for centuries - and then failed. A new history tackles an old mystery

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July 14, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
european history, July 2011, kirsten seaver, the last vikings, vikings
July 12, 2011

Now in Hardcover: Legion Lost

July 12, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

One of the greatest adventures of the Legion of Super-Heroes, now in a sturdy hardcover volume!

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July 12, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
andy lanning, comic books, dan abnett, dc comics, July 2011, legion lost, legion of super-heroes, olivier coipel, pascal alixe
July 09, 2011

Book Review: Mitko

July 09, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A powerful debut novella about lust and the deceits of yearning.

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contemporary fiction, fiction, garth greenwell, July 2011, mitko
July 03, 2011

New in Paperback: Citizen Washington

July 03, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Twelve years after its first appearance, "Citizen Washington," a historical novel by bestselling author William Martin, gets an attractive new paperback just in time for about a million American summer vacations.

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American Revolution, citizen washington, fiction, George Washington, historical fiction, July 2011, william martin
July 01, 2011

The Civil War: A Narrative

July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Shelby Foote's massive three-volume military history of the Civil War is re-issued for the 150th anniversary of the war's beginning.

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July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
american history, civil war, civil war history, history, July 2011, shelby foote, the civil war: a narrative
July 01, 2011

Book Review: Helpless

July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

In a Victorian London gripped by the trial of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency, someone is preying on young men, and Douglas Shrove, scion of an illustrious family, is next - and doesn't know who to trust.

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July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
July 2011
July 01, 2011

Edward the Last

July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

When he was Prince of Wales, he was the nation's darling, but when Edward VIII came to the throne, he became the greatest threat the monarchy had ever faced.

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July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
A Year With The Windsors, Features
"Bertie" The Duke of York, A Year With The Windsors, Berchtesgaden, Black Death, Charles Bedaux, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Edward III, Edward IV, Edward Longshanks, Edward V, Edward VIII, Elizabeth Woodeville, first world war, Fort Belvedere, Frances Donaldson, George v, henry viii, History review, Hitler, Hundred Years War, July 2011, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Lloyd George, Metropolitan Opera, Miguel Primo de Rivera, nazi germany, Nazi sympathies, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Operation Sea Lion, Oxford, Prince of Wales, Princes in the Tower, Ricardo de Espirto Santo, Stanley Baldwin, Steve Donoghue, Wallis Warfield Simpson, Wehrmacht, Windsor Great Park
June 21, 2011

New in Paperback: Palo Alto

June 21, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The paperback release of the Hollywood heartthrob's debut story collection

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American fiction, fiction, James Franco, June 2011, palo alto
June 19, 2011

Book Review: Revenger

June 19, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The latest in the ongoing adventures of Shakespeare - JOHN Shakespeare, master-spy to Queen Elizabeth I.

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June 19, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
john shakespeare, June 2011, revenger, rory clements, shakespeare, tudor fiction
June 16, 2011

In Paperback: Tarzan of the Apes

June 16, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A handsome new paperback of the book that gave birth to a multi-million dollar industry: the modern-day myth that is "Tarzan of the Apes."

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June 16, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
daryl mandryk, Edgar Rice Burroughs, fall river press, June 2011, Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes
June 13, 2011

In Paperback: A Princess of Mars

June 13, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A paperback re-issue of the first instalment in the adventures of John Carter, gentleman of Virginia and superhuman warlord of distant Mars!

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June 13, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
a princess of mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs, fall river press, john carter, john carter of mars, June 2011, science fiction
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