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Monday, May 18, 2026
Willa Cather - O Pioneers!
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I stumbled upon Willa Cather's O Pioneers! ' due to my interest in the people and history of the North American praire. First publis...
Friday, May 15, 2026
Fred Wien & Rick Williams - Contested Waters: The Struggle for Rights & Reconciliation in the Atlantic Fishery
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In 2020 Indigenous fishers from the Mi’kmaw First Nation in Nova Scotia came under attack from settler fishers. The Indigenous fishers were...
Thursday, May 07, 2026
Trevor Royle - Fighting Mac: The Downfall of Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald
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Sir Hector Macdonald was an unusual soldier in the British Army in the late 19th and very early 20th century. He distinguished himself at th...
Stephen Graham Jones - My Heart is a Chainsaw
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My Heart is a Chainsaw is the first in a trilogy of horror novels by Stephen Graham Jones. As I mentioned in my earlier review of his book ...
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Martha A. Sandweiss - The Girl in the Middle: A recovered history of the American West
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In 1868 the pioneer American photographer Alexander Gardner joined a delegation from the US government that was negotiating with the Lakota ...
Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky
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Tiffany Aching is one of the great characters of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasies. While the novels she is in are aimed at young ad...
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year
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During the Coronavirus pandemic Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year gained a new popularity. Despite being an account of one ma...
Dashiell Hammett - The Thin Man
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It is New York, Christmas ,1932. Prohibition is almost over and so most people are drinking quite heavily. There is a lot of cigarette smoke...
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Ian Angus - Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism's Assault on the Earth
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Karl Marx eagerly devoured writings on all aspects of history, culture and science. Anyone who has read a small part of his work will be str...
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Frederic F. Van de Water - Glory Hunter: A life of General Custer
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When George Armstrong Custer was killed, alongside all of the men who rode alongside him, at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, he was catap...
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