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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel
(P.S.) by Tom Franklin, Harper Perrenial, 2011 -
Reviewed by Judi Morrel
Authored by Tom Franklin, who won an Edgar award for an earlier
short story collection, the novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is
set in present-day Mississippi and involves an unsolved cold case
from the 1970's. Larry Ott, the child of lower-middle-class
white parents and Silas Jones, the son of a poor black single
mother, were unlikely childhood pals . . .
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Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford
Courthouse by Lawrence A. Babits & Joshua
Howard,University of North Carolina Press, 2009 - Reviewed by
George Geib
In recent years we've seen a number of new approaches to the
history of combat, called by some a "new military history."
The old emphasis upon great commanders and heroic incidents has
slipped away. It's been replaced by the dynamics of small
units, the sociology of recruitment . . .
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum
McCann, Random House, 2009 - Reviewed by Bill Johnston
Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin introduces New
York City through the memory of astonished, cheering New Yorkers
watching Philippe Petit, on August 7, 1974, as he walked across a
high-wire he strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center. It was an event they celebrated, or at least .
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The Killing Room by John Manning,
Pinnacle, 2010 - Reviewed by Eloise Sureau-Hale
What if every ten years, for the past eighty years, one member
of your family was to be sacrificed, locked up and left alone one
full night to die in the hands of an angry ghost? What happens if
the ritual is breached?
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