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January 10, 2012

Anthology Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction 28

January 10, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The living giants of science fiction stretch and subvert the fabric of imagination in the latest instalment of this legendary anthology series.

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January 10, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
alastair reynolds, allen steele, gardner dozois, geoffrey landis, January 2012, lavie tidhar, matthew hughes, michael swanwick, pamela sargent, paul berger, science fiction, stephen baxter, year's best science fiction
January 09, 2012

Book Review: The Deception at Lyme

January 09, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In Carrie Bebris' latest Jane Austen homage, the detective duo of Mr. & Mrs. Darcy take a vacation at Lyme, a location the proves scenic, fascinating - and deadly!

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January 09, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
carrie bebris, fiction, historical fiction, jane austen, January 2012, mr & mrs darcy, mystery, pastiche, Persuasion, the deception at lyme, the perils of persuasion
January 07, 2012

Book Review: India Black and the Widow of Windsor

January 07, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

High society madam and sometime-spy for the Crown, India Black investigates a threat to the life of Queen Victoria herself in Carol Carr's latest delightful romp.

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January 07, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
carol k- carr, fiction, historical fiction, india black and the widow of windsor, January 2012, mystery novels, Queen Victoria
January 07, 2012

Book Review: When Passion Rules

January 07, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In Johanna Lindsey's latest, the heiress to a distant kingdom returns home to stop a war and promptly falls into tempestuous love with the captain of the palace guard, giving whole new meanings to 'porous borders'

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January 07, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
fiction, January 2012, johanna lindsey, romance novels, when passion rules
January 05, 2012

Anthology Review: Cape Cod Noir

January 05, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A noir mystery anthology takes us down the mean streets of ... West Brewster?

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January 05, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
cape cod, cape cod noir, david ulin, fiction, January 2012, mystery, noir, rosemary herbert
January 04, 2012

Book Review: The Favored Queen

January 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A new novel tries to infuse life and drama into the mousy, deferential person of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour

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January 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
carolly erickson, fiction, historical fiction, jane seymour, January 2012, most favored queen, tudor fiction
January 03, 2012

Book Review: The Good Thief's Guide to Venice

January 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In his latest adventure, (mostly) reformed thief Charlie Howard finds trouble in the much-storied Queen of the Adriatic.

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January 03, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Book Review, chris ewan, fiction, good thief's guide to venice, January 2012, mystery, tom felton, venice
December 31, 2011

New in Paperback: Superman Secret Origin

December 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A thrilling re-telling of the famous origin story of the Man of Steel

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December 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
comics, dc comics, gary frank, geoff johns, January 2012, superman, superman secret origin
December 31, 2011

On Reading a Five-Volume Biography of Prince Albert

December 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Maligned as nothing but handsome breeding stock, this German import did more to redefine the role of the monarchy than any subsequent royal, consort or king.

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December 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life, History, Politics & History, The Windsors
"The Thomas Jefferson of England", Baron Christian Stockmar, Brattle Bookshop, Cecil Rhodes James, Christoph Florschutz, Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Frogmore Mausoleum, General Charles Grey, Giles St- Aubyn, January 2012, Jules Stewart, Keeping up with the Windsors, National Geographic, OLM, One Encounter, Open Letters Monthly, Philip Eade, Prince Albert, Prince Albert Biography, Prince Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Queen Victoria, Steve Donoghue, Strand Bookstore, The Early Years of the Prince Consort, The Life of the Prince Consort, The Mill on the Floss, The Woman in White, Theodore Martin
December 21, 2011

Book Review: December 1941

December 21, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A day-by-day, hour-by-hour reconstruction of the month America's childhood ended, from a historian who's read every word on the subject.

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December 20, 2011

Book Review: Spectrum 18

December 20, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The latest eye-catching volume in the ongoing series collecting the best science fiction and fantasy artwork of the previous year - elves, jedis, dragons, warlocks, and busty showgirls ... and more than a few surprises!

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December 20, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
arnie fenner, cathy fenner, christina hess, December 2011, donato giancarlo, fantasy, fantasy art, jessica shirley, omar rayyam, sam brown, spectrum 18
December 18, 2011

Book Review: The Tudor Throne

December 18, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Two Tudor sisters fight for a throne - and love - in the latest historical fiction from Kensington Books

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December 18, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
brandy purdy, December 2011, historical fiction, Keeping up with the tudors, kristine mills-noble, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary, the tudor throne, trish cramblet, tudor historical fiction, tudors
December 15, 2011

Comics: Essential Rawhide Kid Volume 1

December 15, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Marvel's pint-sized Old West gunslinger gets his first 'essential' volume!

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December 15, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
comics, December 2011, dick ayers, essential rawhide kid, gene colan, jack davis, jack kirby, rawhid kid, stan lee
December 12, 2011

Now in Paperback: From Colony to Superpower

December 12, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

An epic history of America's foreign policy-making, from a defeated King George III to a defeated Saddam Hussein, with every dictator, diplomat, and sometimes befuddled President in between.

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December 12, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
american history, December 2011, from colony to superpower, george herring, history, oxford history of the united states
December 09, 2011

Book Review: The Iron Knight

December 09, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Julie Kagawa's evocative, addictive teen series concludes the way all her fans hoped it would: with Ash's story.

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December 09, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
December 2011, iron fey, julie kagawa, teen fantasy, teen fiction, the iron knight
December 07, 2011

Book Review: The Iliad

December 07, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A new translation raises old questions about the greatest epic of them all.

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December 07, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
anthony verity, barbara graziosi, classics, December 2011, homer, iliad, Oxford University Press
December 05, 2011

Classics Reissued: The Fifth Queen

December 05, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Before he wrote the novels that made him famous, Ford Madox Ford wrote Tudor fiction - and this great stuff is now offered to readers again.

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December 05, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
December 2011, ford madox ford, katharine howard, the fifth queen, tudor fiction, tudors
December 04, 2011

Book Review: A Beginner's Guide to Rakes

December 04, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A spirited and enterprising widow returns to London and finds herself locking horns with the cardsharp lord who crossed her path three years before in Vienna ...

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December 04, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
a beginner's guide to rakes, December 2011, regency romance, romance, romance novels, suzanne enoch
December 03, 2011

Book Review: The Heroes

December 03, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The latest gritty, violent, sarcastic military science fiction novel from Joe Abercrombie

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December 03, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
December 2011, fantasy, joe abercrombie, the heroes
December 02, 2011

Classics Reissued: Avengers Forever

December 02, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The mighty Avengers - past, present, and yet to come - team up with Kang the Conqueror to save the present from the marauding future. Dramamine not included.

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December 02, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
avengers forever, carlos pacheco, comics, December 2011, kurt busiek, marvel comics
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