Books High and Low

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

The jewel that was ours, by Colin Dexter

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  This is another complex mystery set in Cambridge at the end of the 1980s or early 1990s. Inspector Morse is called in to solve the theft o...

Harlem shuffle, by Colson Whitehead

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  I really enjoyed this crime novel set in 1950s and 1960s Harlem. Ray Carney is a furniture salesman with a side job as a fence for stolen ...
Friday, August 4, 2023

La Duchesse: The life of Marie de Vignerot, by Bronwen McShea

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  While much is known about the French clergyman and statesman Cardinal Richelieu, very little is known about his favored niece, Marie de ...
Thursday, August 3, 2023

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a marriage, by Jonny Steinberg

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  South African scholar and award-winning author Steinberg (A Man of Good Hope) presents an engrossing joint biography of Nelson Mandela an...

The modern maverick, by Ed Haddon

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  Business coach Haddon provides a useful and insightful guide for readers who want a more meaningful, independent, and autonomous life. Th...

A day in the life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy, by Nathan Thrall

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  This riveting account by Thrall (The Only Language They Understand) tells the story of a bus that sets out on a stormy day in a Palestini...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The night parade: a speculative memoir, by Jami Nakamura Lin

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  In this highly innovative memoir, Lin shares her experiences as a person with bipolar disorder as she comes of age, marries, experiences ...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

The devil's alternative, by Frederick Forsyth

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  As I was organizing my fiction in recent weeks I came across this novel by Frederick Forsyth; I've owned it for ages but never got aro...
Monday, July 17, 2023

The wench is dead, by Colin Dexter

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  A different approach for Colin Dexter. Inspector Morse is taken to the hospital after suffering a perforated ulcer exacerbated by his heav...

The secret of annexe 3, by Colin Dexter

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  Another complicated mystery from the Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter.

Maya's notebook, by Isabelle Allende

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  I loved this book about a young girl who goes astray after the death of her beloved grandfather. After being required to stay in a rehab f...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

The riddle of the third mile, by Colin Dexter

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This is another twisty-turny mystery starring Inspector Morse, with a convoluted plot about a body that turns up headless, handless, and leg...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Confidence man, by Maggie Haberman

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  I've been a big fan of Maggie Haberman's journalism for years, and have always appreciated her appearances on cable news networks....

The summit mindset, by Scott Miller and James C. Moore

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Business executive/debut author Miller and documentary filmmaker and Emmy Award winner Moore (General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics) ma...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Mud, blood, and ghosts: Populism, eugenics, and spiritualism in the American West, by Julie Carr

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  Author and professor of English Julie Carr examines the roots of American populism through the lens of her family history and the forces...

The dead of Jericho, by Colin Dexter

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This is another confusing and complex murder mystery that can only be solved by Inspector Morse. A woman is found dead of apparent suicide a...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Service of all the dead, by Colin Dexter

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In the fourth Inspector Morse mystery, Morse takes a vacation but only travels so far as a local village where he learns that there was a mu...
Monday, May 1, 2023

The bandit queens, by Parini Shroff

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  I really enjoyed this humorous first novel by Parini Shroff. Geeta's violent and abusive husband abandoned her five years ago, but the...
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