The Gate House is the sequel to Nelson DeMille's wildly popular mafia thriller/farce, The Gold Coast , picking up ten years after Jo...

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  Chad S. Hamill is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at Northern Arizona University , where he serves as co-chair for the Commiss...

Knowing my pleasure in reading your emails, and writing my own, I wondered if we could ‘keep it simple.’ . . . Only three days and I was fa...

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When it comes to humorous literature, I see a continuum from books that are almost purely funny, with only a fragile plot for framework, ...

As far as I was concerned, this meeting was over. We'd covered the walk down memory lane, and I'd squashed the clumsy recruiting ...

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A week had passed since my return from London, and I was sitting at the table in the dining room of the small gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, m...

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No one can strip a marriage down to find the twinging nerve like Wallace Stegner , but he does it with such a deft and gentle touch that ...

When I had a bad day and my brain buzzed like angry ants and I couldn't think or talk straight, I thought of what the characters I admi...

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The Angel's Share by Rayme Waters , published by Winter Goose Publishing   Release date: August 15, 2012. I am so pleased to have my v...

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  What literature fan would not want to read a book called Greene on Capri: a Memoir , by Shirley Hazzard? Graham Greene . The enchantin...

She was known to be beautiful and thought to be impossible, but she was an asset at a party.  Her tireless activity was felt to be in searc...

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  Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , is the classic tale of split personality, exa...

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