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B.B. Oak

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Mystery, Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction

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September 2013

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B. B. OAK is the pen name of husband and wife Ben and Beth Oak, who write the historical mystery series featuring Henry David Thoreau, a self-reliant loner with his own code of honor and his own sense of justice.
The first book in the series was THOREAU AT DEVIL'S PERCH, followed by THOREAU ON WOLF HILL, and the latest is THOREAU IN PHANTOM BOG.
"Death from a Bad Heart," a short story featuring the characters in the series, was named a Distinguished Mystery Story in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013.
Beth and Ben met at Boston University, where she majored in Journalism and he in English. After many years abroad, the Oaks now live in Connecticut. Their website is bboak.com.

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Thoreau the Extroverted Introvert

Henry David Thoreau at his cabin

Recently finished the outstanding book QUIET about how introverts are undervalued in our society and are not isolationists. Henry David Thoreau certainly was an introvert. He famously said “I have never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude,” yet it is not generally known that he was also a mos

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	Thoreau at Devil's Perch (Henry David Thoreau Mystery #1) 3.47 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thoreau in Phantom Bog (Henry David Thoreau Mystery #3) 3.97 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thoreau on Wolf Hill (Henry David Thoreau Mystery #2) 3.81 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon by Mark Ammons (Editor), Katherine Fast (Editor), Barbara Ross (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Oak, B.B. Thoreau in Phantom Bog (Henry David Thoreau Mysteries): 3 (Henry David Thoreau Mystery) Paperback - August 2015 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“The man of science, who is not seeking for expression but for a fact to be expressed merely, studies nature as a dead language.
I pray for such inward experience as will make nature significant.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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