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Book tells tale of pioneering female deputy sheriff

Wednesday, 7 October 2015, 14:26 Last update: about 10 years ago

One of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs got her unexpected start when a car rammed into her horse-drawn buggy, upending her quiet farm life. This is the true-life backdrop of the new...

Writing is tight and tense in 'The Killing Kind'

Monday, 5 October 2015, 13:34 Last update: about 10 years ago

Chris Holm takes an interesting spin on the anti-hero scenario with his new novel, "The Killing Kind." Mike Hendricks was a soldier with a fiancee and a wonderful life waiting for him when he...

'Three-Nine Line' is suspenseful thriller

Sunday, 4 October 2015, 13:33 Last update: about 10 years ago

David Freed's first three Cordell Logan thrillers chronicled the former combat pilot and government assassin's struggle to adjust to civilian life. But in "The Three-Nine Line," Logan returns to his...

Gerard James Borg: chasing dreams and writing books

Sunday, 4 October 2015, 10:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Helena Grech

One of Malta’s contemporary song writer, concept creator and author Gerard James Borg said that the one thing creative people must not do is not to be afraid to pursue their goals. Having...

Lock details triumph and tragedy of climbing in 'Thin Air'

Saturday, 3 October 2015, 13:32 Last update: about 10 years ago

After watching a slide show of Mount Everest in a small room in the back of a pub 30 years ago, Andrew Lock made a decision to climb the world's tallest peak. Thus launched a 24-year journey ascending...

Lee Child has another winner with new thriller 'Make Me'

Friday, 2 October 2015, 13:26 Last update: about 10 years ago

All the elements that readers have come to expect from a Lee Child book are in place: the wandering man who stumbles onto a conspiracy because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time; the gorgeous...

'Annie van Sinderen' is a can't-put-down story

Thursday, 1 October 2015, 13:25 Last update: about 10 years ago

To call Katherine Howe's latest novel a ghost story would be an unfair oversimplification. Yes, there's a ghost. And, yes, it's a can't-put-down story. But it's much more than a young adult...

A new edition of Alfred Sant's plays published by SKS

Thursday, 1 October 2015, 08:34 Last update: about 10 years ago

A number of Alfred Sant plays written in the seventies are being republished after more than twenty years in a new edition of Qabel Tiftaħ l-Inkjesta u drammi oħra (Before the Start of the...

A look back to when Detroit's promise seemed boundless

Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 13:23 Last update: about 10 years ago

The city that remains synonymous with America's auto industry has a newer identity as an emblem of urban decay. Its decline is all the more tragic when one looks in the rearview mirror to see how...

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