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Brideshead Revisited: The Secular and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder © 1945 Evelyn Waugh 350 pages My theme is memory, tha...

I rejoiced in the Burgundy. How can I describe it? The Pathetic Fallacy resounds in all our praise of wine. For centuries every languag...

The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government © 2016 Fergus Bordewich ...

The Scotch-Irish: A Social History © 1989 James Leyburn 397 pages         Though they have long ceased to be a distinct ethnic grou...

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain © 2015 Bill Bryson 380 pages "When people asked me where I w...

On March 25th, by the reckoning of the Shire,  the Ring of Power was cast into the Cracks of Doom and the vicious horde facing the Men ...

The Lincoln Lawyer © 2005 Michael Connelly 404 pages Mickey Haller is a lawyer on the move, a criminal defender whose clients are so...