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★★★★☆ Yellow Dog Democrat. Rabid Republican. True Believer. Each term conveys an assumption that one’s beliefs supersede any and all facts. There is no reasoning — no recognition that a viewpoint other than one’s...
★★★★☆ Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel was published to rave reviews in 2015. Now in trade paperback format, it has lost none of its impact and thoughtful examination of what goes through...
★★★☆☆ This is not a self-help book, nor an examination of how leaders operate in the wider world. The Captain Myth is a sports book for a specific niche: golfers, and more specifically, it...
★★★★★ Ron Rash is a premier American writer of contemporary fiction. Do not be deceived by the setting of his work and limit him to being just a Southern, or more particularly, just an...
★★★★★ The clues were always there, hidden in plain sight. Biographer after biographer, essayist after essayist saw the information; some missed it completely. No one who saw the clues put them together until now....
★★★★☆ Charles Dickens is dead; long live Charles Dickens. Stephen Jarvis has channeled the Great Man in his superb retelling of how The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club came to be and the...
★★★★☆ We do not like to talk about death. It is difficult to confront the possibility of ours or of those we love. In The Truth About Death, Hellenga brings wit, wisdom, and unforgettable...
★★★★☆ British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh tells “Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery” in this aptly-titled memoir. He provides a personal trip through his career by relating stories tied to various medical problems. Each...
★★★★☆ Watchlist explores what it means to be watched in a world in which our expectation of privacy is quickly becoming an outmoded concept. Who is watching whom? How we are affected by this...
