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Son recounts his father's struggle in new Holocaust memoir

Friday, 21 August 2015, 14:58 Last update: about 12 years ago

Holocaust memoirs published in the decades following the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews serve as gripping and historically necessary evidence to unimaginable personal suffering. However, few such...

Barclay delivers gripping story in 'Broken Promise'

Thursday, 20 August 2015, 14:56 Last update: about 12 years ago

Linwood Barclay returns to the small town of Promise Falls for his latest novel, "Broken Promise," bringing back several characters and delivering another gripping tale. In this story, journalist...

Badlands' is intriguing stand-alone novel from C.J. Box

Wednesday, 19 August 2015, 14:55 Last update: about 12 years ago

The new Wild West, in which a hamlet becomes a boomtown because of its oil-rich fields, makes a sturdy background for C.J. Box's intriguing new stand-alone novel. Taking another break from his...

Al Roker's 'The Storm of the Century' dives into 1900 storm

Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 14:54 Last update: about 12 years ago

Al Roker's new book, "The Storm of the Century," reads like a blockbuster movie script, but the "Today" show weatherman said the drama, heartache and strife of the Great Hurricane of 1900 that hit...

A ‘smart’ narrator

Monday, 17 August 2015, 14:43 Last update: about 12 years ago

For most adults, dealing with the world of teenagers feels like gazing at an abstract work of art of which they cannot make sense. A kind of mystery that retains its cryptic nature, even though it is...

Laurent Ropa

Monday, 17 August 2015, 14:41 Last update: about 12 years ago

The historicity of Maltese seafaring knows its origins from the earliest of times; whether exploring, pirateering or indeed migrating in search of brighter days. The great migratory waves, however,...

Colonial encounters

Monday, 17 August 2015, 14:40 Last update: about 12 years ago

This volume brings together international and Maltese scholars, offering a line-up of innovative contributions to some of the most current and demanding, social, economic and cultural debates on...

In Lazzaretto

Monday, 17 August 2015, 14:38 Last update: about 12 years ago

Malta's history has served as an incomparable backdrop to countless novels in literature. Looking to the past century, though, there is one glaring omission: 1950s Malta, the decade before...

Long-lost Fitzgerald story finally published

Saturday, 15 August 2015, 15:18 Last update: about 12 years ago

A year before F. Scott Fitzgerald died of a heart attack, he completed a short story about a hard-drinking writer diagnosed with cardiac disease. "And as for that current dodge 'No reference to...

James Abel's 'Protocol Zero' disappoints

Friday, 14 August 2015, 15:17 Last update: about 12 years ago

"Protocol Zero," James Abel's follow-up to the stellar "White Plague," is intriguing, but ultimately doesn't live up to the premise or anticipation generated by the earlier novel. Marine Joe Rush...

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