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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006)
Rome rose and fell, but here’s a book written to accompany a made-for-TV documentary on the subject.
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Sparrow Hill Road (2014)
The ghost of a girl who died in the 50s on her prom night has some stories to tell.
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (2014)
The Lancaters and the Yorks went to war for the English crown once.
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Blood Meridian (1985)
I used to be a very heavy reader, but of late, I’ve slowed down a bit. True, much of it comes from reading trade paperbacks more than novels, but then there’s my job, the podcast (which I really need to schedule again soon), and then this blog. That all takes Read more…
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Dark Age (Red Rising Book 5)
I generally really like the work author Pierce Brown has done with his sci-fi Red Rising series. Although the first book sounds a lot like a more adult-version of The Hunger Games, Brown presented a rather morally complex world where few characters were straight good or evil. In a setting Read more…
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American Born Chinese (2006)
I got to see Gene Luen Yang give a talk during a teacher’s conference probably a decade ago. He spoke quite a bit about American Born Chinese and the experience of making original graphic novels, so why didn’t I read his book sooner? I actually wanted to, but somehow never Read more…