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Caitlyn Jenner talks of suicide, secrets in new book

Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 15:20 Last update: about 11 years ago

Caitlyn Jenner opened up Monday about her frank new memoir detailing her now 2-year-old transition and the bumps along the way, including her three failed marriages, thoughts of suicide while she was...

'The Lost Order' by Steve Berry is gripping story

Friday, 28 April 2017, 15:07 Last update: about 11 years ago

"The Lost Order," Steve Berry's latest Cotton Malone adventure, combines the history of a secret society with a look inside the Smithsonian Institution - and it's terrific. Before the Civil War,...

'Inferno' brings insight and humanity to Ebola outbreak

Thursday, 27 April 2017, 15:05 Last update: about 11 years ago

In 2014, Dr. Steven Hatch, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, flew into a Liberian airport in the midst of the largest Ebola outbreak in history, donned...

'I Liked My Life' an impressive debut by Abby Fabiaschi

Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 15:04 Last update: about 11 years ago

The novel "I Liked My Life" begins with Madeline, its main character, assessing a potential new wife for her husband, Brady. It's immediately clear she's dead and speaking from a sort of limbo...

US Sen. Elizabeth Warren launches book tour

Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 15:10 Last update: about 11 years ago

She wasn't in her home state, but U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren couldn't have asked for a friendlier audience to launch her book tour. The Massachusetts Democrat entered and left to warm ovations...

'Conviction' has believable characters, intriguing twists

Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 15:02 Last update: about 11 years ago

Julia Dahl's examination of the myriad communities that exist - sometimes not so harmoniously - in Brooklyn, New York, fuels her third excellent novel featuring freelance reporter Rebekah...

Protecting and preserving industrial heritage

Monday, 24 April 2017, 14:37 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

On 1 February 2013 a seminar was organised by the Farsons Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Built Heritage, Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta. The timing was...

Ħsiebu Jsuqu

Monday, 24 April 2017, 14:36 Last update: about 11 years ago

Ħsiebu Jsuqu depicts the writer's thoughts that lead him into humanity's conscience. In fact, the sub-title of the book refers to the literary actuality that Oliver Friggieri is maintaining and...

'The Inkblots' documents history of Rorschach test

Saturday, 22 April 2017, 16:11 Last update: about 11 years ago

A bear. A bat. A butterfly. Images seen in Rorschach inkblots reveal the viewer's unconscious mind, including any serious mental disorders. Or do they? Is the Rorschach test a brilliant...

New novel imagines Lincoln amid ghosts after son's death

Friday, 21 April 2017, 16:11 Last update: about 11 years ago

Days after his son Willie's death, Abraham Lincoln returned alone, late at night, to his 11-year-old's crypt. In his new novel, George Saunders takes this historical nugget, gleaned from a...

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