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Feb.14.2008
“This is an enchanting tale of love: a man dreams of a woman, while she dreams of the man who is dreaming of her. It reminds me of Silk by Alessandro Baricco, and One Thousand and One Nights, but Alev Croutier has a voice of her own, soft and poetic, like music in a Turkish garden...
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Feb.09.2008
900+ translated haiku, all on the sea cucumber and most over a hundred years old, with a good measure of natural history.
You might know about Ponge and his object poems, but the sea cucumber, a featureless and formless (protean) animal without a ganglia of brain, is the ultimate "thing,...
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Jan.15.2008
In the latest addition to the Fairy Tale Series created by Terri Windling, fantasy author Gregory Frost (Tain; Lyrec) provides a fresh and highly readable spin on the classic Bluebeard tale, setting his version in New York’s Finger Lakes district during the 1830s(sic). Charismatic preacher Elias...
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Jan.11.2008
"When Adrienne Mayor's first book, The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Princeton University Press), came out [in 2000], this late-blooming outsider with no advanced degrees caused something of a sensation among high-ranking anthropologists, paleontologists,...
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Jan.04.2008
Penny inherits the Bellefield, a haunted theatre in one of London's oldest districts. Before she or anyone can be safe within its walls, she must find the truth behind the death of the tormented Frenchwoman who died screaming when another structure stood where the Bellefield stands today.
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Jan.04.2008
When Penny Wintercraft-Hawkes gets a call from her older brother Stephen, she's delighted to learn that he and his wife Tamsin have returned from Hong Kong, and are finally planning to build their dream house, a reproduction Elizabethan manor, on their London riverside property. Since Penny's...
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Jan.04.2008
When Ringan Laine and his band, Broomfield Hill, are invited to the prestigious Callowen House festival, he accepts. There's one catch: Callowen is haunted, by a very famous ghost. And that ghost, Susanna Leight-Arnold, is the subject of one of England's most famous ballads. After two close...
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Dec.19.2007
Flamboyant New York theatre director Ren is passionately in love with Jack, a younger man who is still under the thumb of his conservative CEO father, Malcolm. Jack's differences with his father range from the fact that Jack is still in the closet regarding his sexuality to having to endure his...
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