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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: June 21, 2022

We Carry Their Bones, by Erin Kimmerle

Trigger warning for extreme child abuse and murder. Before it closed in 2011, the Arthur […]

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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: May 30, 2022

The Facemaker, by Lindsey Fitzharris

During the pandemic, in the months when the faculty and staff were working from home, […]

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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: March 22, 2022March 22, 2022

Cultish, by Amanda Montell

I am endlessly fascinated by language. I am almost equally interested in cults. So when […]

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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: January 25, 2022

Index, A History of the, by Dennis Duncan

Any scholar or librarian will tell you, once you start to accumulate information, you’re going […]

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Book Review / Literary Fiction / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: January 20, 2022

The City of Incurable Women, by Maud Casey

Maud Casey’s The City of Incurable Women brings me back to an old fascination of […]

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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: December 1, 2021

The Misinformation Age, by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall

Two of my colleagues and I lead a book club for faculty this fall semester […]

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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: November 29, 2021

Every Day the River Changes, by Jordan Salama

This Thanksgiving weekend, I went to South America…via Every Day the River Changes, by Jordan […]

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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: September 9, 2021

What They Didn’t Burn, by Mel Laytner

Josef Lajtner rarely spoke of what happened to him between 1940 and 1945. His son, […]

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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: August 18, 2021

Fuzz, by Mary Roach

Mary Roach’s latest dive into the interesting and odd is Fuzz, in which she pesters […]

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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: August 9, 2021

How to Examine a Wolverine, by Philipp Schott

The amiable veterinarian Dr. Philipp Schott is back with a second collection of blog posts, […]

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