Napoleon’s Buttons by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson
Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
Year: 2004
Pages: 384
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I happened upon Napoleon’s Button entirely by accident when I was looking for cover art for His Excellency: George Washington; was so intrigued by the premise promised [...]
Night of the Avenging Blowfish by John Welter
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Year: 1994
Pages: 304
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№45
I’ve read this one before, and yet a couple of weeks ago I got an inexplicable urge to read it again.
I’m not aware of Welter writing anything after the mid-1990s and [...]
His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2005
Pages: 352
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№44
Hot on the heels of John Adams comes this new book about George Washington; I’ve mentioned before that I don’t usually read a lot of pure history books or biographies, but [...]
Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1994
Pages: 384
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It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Salamandastron
Martin the Warrior marks something of a turning point for the Redwall series: Jacques, for the first time, seems mindful that he [...]
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
Year: 1998
Pages: 416
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№42
I was supposed to read Into Thin Air when I was a junior in high school, as one of a tripartite summer/fall curriculum about Man vs. Nature themes: the other two books were [...]
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2007
Pages: 368
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№41
I can recall with tremendous clarity how surprised I was by Mark Haddon’s debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It wasn’t that the story was anything spectacular—it [...]
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Pages: 400
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№40
Part of the problem with books making predictions about the future is they only have two markets: (1), people who want to read predictions about the future, and (2) people who [...]
Salamandastron by Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1993
Pages: 400
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№39
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Mariel of Redwall
Continuing a theme that’s been developing for a number of books now, Jacques takes parallel narratives to extremes in this latest installment [...]
God’s Problem by Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: HarperOne
Year: 2008
Pages: 304
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№38
Bart D. Ehrman is a compelling scholar, or so I’m told. I was entirely underwhelmed by his previous work, The Lost Gospel of Judas, which was largely a historical curiosity with a lot [...]
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