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Recent Posts
Why Read Short Stories?
Short stories are NOT long novels. Some are very brief. Some are novellas. Some get right to the action. Some are character studies. Some are interconnected. Some are intense and thought provoking.
The pilots called “the suicide club”
This was the time of open cockpits, goggles, and long white scarves. There is a certain romance associated with the times of early planes and those pilots but the reality was not so simple. Planes lacked navigational devices except for a compass....
...Fables and Allegories for a modern age
Don’t you just hate it when a good book ends?
You’ve fallen in love with the characters. You feel like you are part of their world. Their problems are your problems, and you share in their triumphs. Suddenly, only a few pages remain and you begin to read v-e-r-y—s-l-o-w-l-y to prolong your...
...Lost in the Stacks: Scraping Heaven
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Novelist
Locate authors and titles of interest. In addition, three powerful search techniques allow readers to look for books by entering descriptive terms that appear in subject headings, reviews, and other fields in the title records.
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