non-fiction

Between Man and Beast by Monte Reel: Book Review & Giveaway

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Between Man and Beast

Some of you may be wondering if we’ve changed our focus because we’re featuring two non-fiction books in a row. Nope, it just worked out that way logistically. We’re still mainly a fiction review web site. No worries. That said, when I saw Between Man and Beast by Monte Reel, I couldn’t resist. Its subtitle [...]

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Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman: Book Review & Giveaway

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Eighty Days

Matthew Goodman’s title says it all, Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History Making Race Around the World. This is a narrative nonfiction account about the attempt by two amazing women to outdo Jules Verne and each other in 1889, at a time when women just didn’t do this kind of thing. It’s an [...]

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Saturday Night Widows by Becky Aikman: 6 Friends Remaking Their Lives

Memoir
Saturday Night Widows

Becky Aikman was on a very personal mission when she wrote Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives. This memoir chronicles her experiences as a young widow who was grieving, trying to heal and find a way to remake her life with no road map. As she used trial and error, [...]

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The Zombie Survival Guide: Zombies Can’t Be Stopped or Can They?

Non-Fiction
The Zombie Survival Guide

(One of our guest reviewers, Suzy Beal, wrote this book review.) Sales of vampire and zombie books show little sign of slowing down over the last three years so, if you’re still wandering the undead-filled hallways of popular paranormal/supernatural fiction these days, you may be something of an expert on the subject by now. If [...]

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2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books History: War & Remembrance

Book Festivals
LA Times Festival of Books

This 2012 LA Times Festival of Books session consisted of an author panel discussion about historical non-fiction, with an emphasis on war. (To order any books that interest you, simply click on the book cover.) Moderator: Diane Smith is a historian and the author of two award-winning novels, Letters from Yellowstone and Pictures from an [...]

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Midnight in Peking by Paul French: Book Review & Giveaway

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Midnight in Peking

We’re participating in the large Showers of Books Giveaway Hop. Thanks to the publisher’s generosity, the finished hardcopy book of Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French is our giveaway! Paul French, a historian living in Shanghai, did massive research into the [...]

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