A Word in Edgewise: Searching for Avalon
Photo courtesy of BigStock/anut21ng As the lights go out all over, I read for escape and to find...
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Author: E.B. Boatner
Books: 661
The Eighth Detective Alex Pavesi Henry Holt and Company $26.99 Julia Hart visits Grant Mc Allister at the ageing mathematician’s isolated Mediterranean island. Thirty years ago, McAllister had distilled all genres of mystery...
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A Word in Edgewise: Through a Glass, Darkly; Now Face to Face?
Photo courtesy of BigStock/IrenMoroz Given my age and blood type, I’ve mainly stayed home the past...
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Books: 659
Maiden Leap CM Harris BInk Books $16.95 Kate Larson’s neatly balanced world tilts when a ghost...
Read MoreA Word in Edgewise: The Squirrel’s Tale: It’s All Still With Us
There are a myriad of topics from which to choose, but in this time of COVID-19, one is pulled into its own orbit. And beyond. Recently, “Oh, no! A plague-infested squirrel in Colorado!” He’s no harbinger of a new pandemic, but...
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A Word in Edgewise: It Ain’t Over Till….Do I Hear Music?
Photo by BigStock/witsawat In 1975, Rahima Banu, a three-year-old Bangaladeshi girl, was the last...
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A Word In Edgewise: The First Step Toward Knowledge
Photo by Bigstock/zigres As the Black Plague ravaged Europe in 1346, no one understood why they’d...
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Books: 657
Isherwood in Transit Ed. James J. Berg and Chris Freeman University of Minnesota Press $27 This...
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A Word In Edgewise: COVID-19, Honey Badger, and William of Ockham
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A Word In Edgewise: Freedom’s Just Another Word
Photo courtesy of BigStock/Viktoriya Fivko Frances Oldham Kelsey, pharmacologist and physician,...
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