Jacopo della Quercia
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Dante, Machiavelli, Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne.
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November 2013
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The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy
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2014
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License to Quill
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2015
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Hardboiled Horror
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2017
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MacTrump
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2019
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As someone who, like many my age, was introduced to archaeology by the Indiana Jones film series, I sometimes wondered what books lined Indy's bookshelves. More to the point: how much research goes into archaeology, who's best at it, and how does arc ...more | |
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I often try to immerse myself into whatever book I'm reading. I've read 'Crime and Punishment' in Russia, Dante's Commedia in Florence, and 'Moby-Dick' on Nantucket Sound. And while COVID-19 makes a trip to Cosa Rica impossible for now, I figured 'Te ...more | |
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'The Divided States of America' by Dr. Donald F. Kettl (LBJ School of Public Affairs) was published just one week before the first stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19 and two months before the senseless killing of George Floyd. As such, it is impossi ...more | |
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'The Divided States of America' by Dr. Donald F. Kettl (LBJ School of Public Affairs) was published just one week before the first stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19 and two months before the senseless killing of George Floyd. As such, it is impossi ...more | |
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Do protests matter? Do they have the power to sway elections? A more pressing question might be whether they still matter when COVID-19 and social distancing renders such public displays unsafe. 'The Loud Minority' by Dr. Daniel Q. Gillion presents s ...more | |
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'The Lost History of Liberalism' is a book that excels in almost every area that readers should expect from academic texts today. Dr. Rosenblatt's millennia-spanning perspective provides fascinating insight into liberalism's evolution, and not a sing ...more | |
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As someone who has either read or consulted close to a hundred books on William Shakespeare's life and writing, I must confess 'Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories' is precisely the type of work I wish I had read years ago! Dr. Arte ...more | |
“Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24 tales before he suffered an insurmountable and permanent state of writer's block commonly known as death.”
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“What does it do?” “I don’t know.” Robert shrugged. “It was on the original Roosevelt desk. We think it fired a pistol concealed beneath the tabletop.”
― The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy
― The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy
“The office's olive green walls with gold accents gave the room the charm of a poker table from the Old West”
― The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy
― The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy
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I Am Pilgrim
Terry HayesPilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation.

Hunting and Gathering
Anna Gavalda|26826Prize-winning author Anna Gavalda has galvanized the literary world with an exquisite genius for storytelling. Here, in her epic new novel of intimate lives-and filled with the "humanity and wit" (Marie Claire) that has made it a bestselling sensation in France-Gavalda explores the twists of fate that connect four people in Paris. Comprised of a starving artist, her shy, aristocratic neighbor, his obnoxious but talented roommate, and a neglected grandmother, this curious, damaged quartet may be hopeless apart, but together, they may just be able to face the world.

The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy
Jacopo della QuerciaBased on real life conspiracy theories, The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy follows a globetrotting President William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln as they try to unravel a mystery circa the era of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

Saving Grace
Jane GreenGrace and Ted Chapman are widely regarded as the perfect literary power couple. Ted is a successful novelist and Grace, his wife of twenty years, is beautiful, stylish, carefree, and a wonderful homemaker. But what no one sees, what is churning under the surface, is Ted’s rages.Powerful and riveting, Jane Green's Saving Grace will have you on the edge of your seat as you follow Grace on her harrowing journey to rock bottom and back.

Swan Song
Robert McCammon In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity: Sister, who discovers a strange and transformative glass artifact in the destroyed Manhattan streets; Joshua Hutchins, the pro wrestler who takes refuge from the nuclear fallout at a Nebraska gas station; and Swan, a young girl possessing special powers, who travels alongside Josh to a Missouri town where healing and recovery can begin with Swan's gifts. But the ancient force behind earth's devastation is scouring the walking wounded for recruits for its relentless army, beginning with Swan herself.

Song Yet Sung
James McBrideFilled with rich, true details—much of the story is drawn from historical events—and told in McBride’s signature lyrical style, Song Yet Sung is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions, and unexpected kindness.

Innocence
Dean KoontzHe lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen. She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found. But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance—and nothing less than destiny—has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching.

A Simple Plan
[author:Scott B. Smith|12505Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan.

Someone Like You
Sarah DessenHalley has always followed in the wake of her best friend, Scarlett. But when Scarlett learns that her boyfriend has been killed in a motorcycle accident, and that she's carrying his baby, she was devastated. For the first time ever, Scarlett really needs Halley. Their friendship may bend under the weight, but it'll never break--because a true friendship is a promise you keep forever.

Left Drowning
Jessica Park
Weighted down by the loss of her parents, Blythe McGuire struggles to keep her head above water as she trudges through her last year at Matthews College. Then a chance meeting sends Blythe crashing into something she doesn’t expect—an undeniable attraction to a dark-haired senior named Chris Shepherd, whose past may be even more complicated than her own. As their relationship deepens, Chris pulls Blythe out of the stupor she’s been in since the night a fire took half her family. She begins to heal, and even, haltingly, to love this guy who helps her find new paths to pleasure and self-discovery. But as Blythe moves into calmer waters, she realizes Chris is the one still strangled by his family’s traumatic history. As dark currents threaten to pull him under, Blythe may be the only person who can keep him from drowning.

Weighted down by the loss of her parents, Blythe McGuire struggles to keep her head above water as she trudges through her last year at Matthews College. Then a chance meeting sends Blythe crashing into something she doesn’t expect—an undeniable attraction to a dark-haired senior named Chris Shepherd, whose past may be even more complicated than her own. As their relationship deepens, Chris pulls Blythe out of the stupor she’s been in since the night a fire took half her family. She begins to heal, and even, haltingly, to love this guy who helps her find new paths to pleasure and self-discovery. But as Blythe moves into calmer waters, she realizes Chris is the one still strangled by his family’s traumatic history. As dark currents threaten to pull him under, Blythe may be the only person who can keep him from drowning.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Paul TordayWhat does it take to make us believe in the impossible?
For Dr. Alfred Jones, life is a quiet mixture of civil service at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence and marriage to Mary—an ambitious, no-nonsense financier. But a strange turn of fate from an unexpected direction forces Jones to upend his existence and spend all of his time in pursuit of another man’s ludicrous dream. Can there be salmon in the Yemen? Science says no. But if resources are limitless and the visionary is inspired, maybe salmon fishing in the Yemen isn’t impossible. Then again, maybe nothing is.

For Dr. Alfred Jones, life is a quiet mixture of civil service at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence and marriage to Mary—an ambitious, no-nonsense financier. But a strange turn of fate from an unexpected direction forces Jones to upend his existence and spend all of his time in pursuit of another man’s ludicrous dream. Can there be salmon in the Yemen? Science says no. But if resources are limitless and the visionary is inspired, maybe salmon fishing in the Yemen isn’t impossible. Then again, maybe nothing is.
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“What does it do?” “I don’t know.” Robert shrugged. “It was on the original Roosevelt desk. We think it fired a pistol concealed beneath the tabletop.”
― The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy
― The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy

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I see you are from Albany, NY. We are practically neighbors. I live a few miles from Syracuse, NY.
Tory Allyn
I see you are from Albany, NY. We are practically neighbors. I live a few miles from Syracuse, NY.
Tory Allyn"
Ah, wonderful! I love Syracuse. (The opera there is fantastic!)