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Alexander’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexander’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Yes! Working on two Colvin sequels now--one set in Greece, the other in Chicago. Stay tuned!
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They are derived from photos I took at the actual locations described in the novel.
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| A tangled web indeed. This biography of crooked cop and made Chicago Outfit mobster Dick Cain is both interesting but also a bit threadbare. Written by half-brother Michael as the culmination of an Odyssey after the murder Dick Cain in 1973, Tangled ...more | |
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| Written in the midst of the concussion crisis in Football--which 1985 Bears great Duerson's suicide in many ways kicked off--this is a serious and superbly fun memoir, meditation, and biography of a sport, a team, and an era. I wish I could recommend ...more | |
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