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		<title>REVIEW: DEATH IN THE VINES by M. L. Longworth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every summer reading list needs a cozy mystery.  This one is nestled in the community of Aix-en-Provence.  Magistrate Verlaque oversees Commissioner Paulik&#8217;s investigation of a possible wine theft.  A local vineyard is stunned to discover a number of irreplaceable bottles &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-death-in-the-vines-by-m-l-longworth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>GIVEAWAY: THE BOOKMAN&#8217;S TALE by Charlie Lovett</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 22:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Dear Readers! I have a great giveaway for you.  Just leave a comment and be entered to win this new book.  I just started reading it myself and am enjoying it quite at bit. &#160; Description: Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/giveaway-the-bookmans-tale-by-charlie-lovett/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: THE HONEY THIEF</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 22:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nasaf Mazari &#38; Robert Hillman Hazarajat, a central area of Afghanistan, has remained rural for centuries.  Though modernity has seeped through the cracks of this archaic land, traditions have remained.  One of those customs is storytelling.  The authors bring &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-the-honey-thief/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI by Helene Wecker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 01:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the turn-of-the-century New York City, a Syrian tinsmith names Arbeely is repairing a copper flask, when he unwittingly releases a jinni.  The spirit has been captive an untold number of decades, unable to enjoy the freedom he once enjoyed. &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-the-golem-and-the-jinni-by-helene-wecker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Armchair BEA &#8211; 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will once again be participating in Armchair BEA.  I&#8217;ve had a great time these past 2 years and look forward to &#8220;meeting&#8221; even more fellow bloggers. Watch this space from May 28-June 2 for themed posts and giveaways! (Image &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/armchair-bea-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN by Hallie Ephron</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Perhaps what makes this novel so frightening is that it could happen to anyone.  The devious plan is so deceptively simple that it barely registers as out of place. The narrative alternates between two feisty heroines &#8212; Mina, an &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-there-was-an-old-woman-by-hallie-ephron/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: THE UNCHANGEABLE SPOTS OF LEOPARDS by Kristopher Jansma</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the The Talented Mr. Ripley for the newest generation.  It&#8217;s a twisting tale of identity and the search for true companionship.  Each chapter marks another episode in the young protagonist&#8217;s life. The book opens with an &#8220;Author&#8217;s Note&#8221;, &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-the-unchangeable-spots-of-leopards-by-kristopher-jansma/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: THE MAN FROM PRIMROSE LANE by James Renner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book is a bizarre and twisted that deals with obsession.  Told primarily in the third person but from the point-of-view of reporter and best-selling true crime author David Neff.  With a nose for finding stories, David takes possession of &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-the-man-from-primrose-lane-by-james-renner/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: THE DAMNATION OF JOHN DONELLAN by Elizabeth Cooke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has all the makings of a Georgian era Agatha Christie novel &#8212; a house full of suspects, bizarre alibis, unsubstantiated timelines, inheritances, jealousy, and a bottle or two of poison. When young soon-to-be baronet Theodosius Boughton dies unexpectedly one &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-the-damnation-of-john-donellan-by-elizabeth-cooke/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Illustrations by Michael Sieben Just in time for the release of Oz: The Great and Powerful, comes an all new edition of the original classic children&#8217;s story. All the usual characters are there.  Dorothy and Toto are swept up by &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-by-l-frank-baum/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: THE BURNING AIR by Erin Kelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erin Kelly&#8217;s third novel puts a modern twist on a classic archetype:  The English country house mystery.  This is a chilling psychological tale, told from a number increasingly unreliable narrators. The MacBride family is well-to-do and respectable.  The patriarch is &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-the-burning-air-by-erin-kelly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: LADY AT THE O.K. CORRAL by Ann Kirschner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit &#8211; I never knew that Wyatt Earp was married.  He was, by most accounts, a dashing and magnetic man.  But for every larger-than-life aspect of his legend, there was Josephine (Marcus) Earp. Daughter of a Jewish family, &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-lady-at-the-o-k-corral-by-ann-kirschner/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: THE REAL JANE AUSTEN by Paula Byrne</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frustratingly little is known about Jane Austen.  We don&#8217;t know what she looked like.  There is only one drawing of her, as a youth, that is considered to be a portrait, but even some scholars don&#8217;t accept that. In time &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-the-real-jane-austen-by-paula-byrne/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREATCOAT by Helen Dunmore</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book would have done better as a short story.  It has the makings of a good yarn, but it draws things out much too long.  If kept clean and simple, it would have been much more effective. In 1952, &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/the-greatcoat-by-helen-dunmore/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: ALIBIS by Andre Aciman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I set to read a book that I plan to review, I come at it a little differently than just reading for fun.  I make notes, mental and written, about style or themes that I want to mention in &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-alibis-by-andre-aciman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: REVENGE &#8211; Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This collection of stories is frighteningly brilliant.  Each is gently tied to the next by the tiny thread.  This detailed stitching, when tugged, wrinkles and shapes the fabric around it. I truly hesitate to explain much about the stories themselves. &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-revenge-by-yoko-ogawa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: ELIJAH&#8217;S MERMAID by Essie Fox</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Fox&#8217;s follow-up to The Somnambulist, she eschews the sprawling country estate for the dank warren of the Limehouse district.  Found floating in the river, like a Victorian Moses, baby Pearl is plucked from the Thames.  But she enjoys no pharoah&#8217;s life. &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-elijahs-mermaid-by-essie-fox/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: THE TOWER By Nigel Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jones&#8217; overview of the Tower of London&#8217;s thousand year history was no doubt a massive undertaking. Imagine it: ten centuries worth of sieges, celebrations, world-altering decisions, wrongful deaths and sovereign decrees all held within these walls, on just a few &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-the-tower-by-nigel-jones/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL LIES by Clare Clark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Yes, the novel is as gorgeous as the cover.  Ethereal, impactful*, vintage and evocative.  The heroine, Maribel, is the vivacious wife of parliamentary representative Edward Campbell Lowe.  Himself a boisterous, outspoken politician, the two make an unforgettable pair, if &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-beautiful-lies-by-clare-clark/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: JUNGLELAND by Christopher S. Stewart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stewart&#8217;s travelogue is as addicting as the tales of the lost city itself.  A freelance writer from Brooklyn, Stewart heard about Ciudad Blanca during an interview with a US solider who had endured the Honduran jungle.  Like many who hear &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-jungleland-by-christopher-s-stewart/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A New Slate for A New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally I sift through the half-read books I have been sent to read and review.  These are the ones that didn&#8217;t get dragged around town with me, or passed along to a friend.  These are the ones that I kept &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/a-new-slate-for-a-new-year/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>READ-ALONG: THE PASSING BELLS by Phillip Rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; If you are as anxious for the series premiere of Downton Abbey as I am, then you know what it is to be captivated by good writing. Fill those dreary hours, waiting for the return of the Grantham household and the &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/read-along-the-passing-bells-by-phillip-rock/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: STRONG POISON by Dorothy L. Sayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m ashamed to say this was the first Sayers novel I have read.  I can&#8217;t imagine why, other than I assumed them to be like Agatha Christie and there were already so many of hers to read.  And I don&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-strong-poison/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>TINY REVIEW: TINY BOOK OF TINY STORIES, Vol. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hijinks are back and the result is another heart-breaking and wonderful compilation of thoughts and images.  Hosted by HitRecord, artists and dreamers post bits of artistic ephemera.  The result is an open-source collaboration space.  People can grab, alter, add &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/tiny-review-tiny-book-of-tiny-stories-vol-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW: EXTRAORDINARY THEORY OF OBJECTS by Stephanie Lacava</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a love/hate relationship with Paris.  Like many people, I expect, I had a romanticized notion of Paris, which I was quite aware was unreal.  But I still wanted to see the storied place of Latrec, Ilse Bing, Cocteau, &#8230; <a href="http://mwgerard.com/review-extraordinary-theory-of-objects-by-stephanie-lacava/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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