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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War

Roper’s close reading of the texts presents a rich, multidirectional history of an important historical period. And she writes like a dream. An exciting history book that’s likely to be the go-to study for years to come.
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Friends Helping Friends

Hoffman’s (Clean Hands) comic crime novel would please the master of such things, Donald Westlake.
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City of Smoke and Sea

At moments, Márquez’s (This Fierce Blood) prose enchants, but it doesn’t quite work as a package.
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A Campus on Fire

O’Dowd’s debut is a stunner, with a devastating ending.

The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism

Scholarly, accessible, and engaging, this superb study will appeal to most history lovers, especially in an age where ethnic cleansing is common. A historical quest that’s also a riveting story that’s seldom heard.
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The Forger’s Requiem

An out-of-the-ordinary treat for serious fiction readers. Distinct in subject matter but not tone, this book echoes Daphne du Maurier’s Gothic novel Rebecca and Poe’s fevered tales.
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Camp Jeff

This exuberant satire, rich in biting caricatures of uniformly over-the-top characters, is the opposite of neat or tidy. The result is a novel that’s insightful and hilarious in parts but eventually runs out of steam.
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American Noir Film: From ‘The Maltese Falcon’ to ‘Gone Girl’

A well-written introduction to noir films and how the genre has continued to thrive as times changed.

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

A generous reading of the works of a master composer and lyricist who reinvented the American musical.
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