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Book Review: ‘Stuck On VHS: A Visual History Of Video Store Stickers’ Clings To Your Heart

Daniel PappasJanuary 13, 2020January 13, 2020

  If you were living on this planet in the ’80s or ’90s, chances are you have fond memories of your local video store. ‘Stuck On VHS’ brings the VHS era back to life through its small but essential ephemera: rental stickers. These stickers capture a time and place where movies mattered and video stores …

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Book Review: ‘How Quickly She Disappears’ Is A Relentless, Unyielding Thriller

Ann McDonaldJanuary 6, 2020January 6, 2020

  The Dry meets The Silence of the Lambs in this intoxicating tale of literary suspense, set in the relentless Alaskan landscape, about madness and obsession, loneliness and grief, and the ferocious bonds of family….

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Book Review: ‘Follow Me To Ground’ Offers A Haunting Look Into Inhuman Nature

Adrina PalmerUpdated on December 22, 2019December 22, 2019

  A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency.

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Book Review: ‘Novice Dragoneer’ Has Equal Amounts Of Promise And Issues

Adrina PalmerNovember 6, 2019November 6, 2019

  In the first book in an exciting new coming-of-age fantasy series from the author of the ‘Age of Fire’ series, an impoverished girl enters into a military order of Dragonriders, but her path won’t be as easy or as straightforward as she expected.

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Book Review: ‘If You Did What I Asked In The First Place’

Susan KandellOctober 24, 2019October 24, 2019

  In this collection of unflinching, unapologetic, and funny oh-so-real life stories, Lori B. Duff bares the creaky, embarrassing parts of our high school cafeteria-scarred souls for us, leaving us no choice but to laugh at our failures, no matter how spectacular, and rejoice in our successes, no matter how itty-bitty.

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Book Review: ‘Salvaged’ Is Intriguing Sci-Fi That Follows In The Footsteps Of “Alien” And “The Thing”

Ann McDonaldOctober 10, 2019October 10, 2019

  In this dark science fiction thriller, a young woman must confront her past so the human race will have a future.

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Book Review: ‘Nothing Ventured’ Offers A Fun Weekend Read

Adrina PalmerUpdated on October 4, 2019October 4, 2019

  Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective…

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Book Review: ‘Yoga Of Poker’

Irish Film CriticSeptember 24, 2019September 24, 2019

Books about poker get published regularly, but often they fly under the radar thanks to their unoriginal and often regurgitated content. Typically, they fall into two categories; the first is books about the mechanics of the game. Namely, the rules of poker and different strategies for beating your opponents. The second category is biographical, either …

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Book Review: ‘Right After The Weather,’ Though Beautifully Written, Does Not Explain Its Purpose

Adrina PalmerSeptember 24, 2019September 19, 2019

  The author of the “graceful and compassionate” (People) New York Times bestseller Carry the One presents a new and long-awaited novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a hard test, and in its aftermath, find themselves in a newly uncertain world.

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