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Mysterious Book Report No. 60 – More Summer Reading

By admin|2016-03-06T08:47:50+00:00March 6th, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Hey everyone, this is a continuation of last week’s column, MBR NO. 59, about summer reading suggestions. Last week we had 1. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, 2. Amped, by Daniel Wilson, and 3. The Third Gate, by Lincoln Child. Here’s seven more to fill out your summer reading list. 4. Broken Harbor, (Viking, $27.95) by Tana French, features detective Mick Kennedy and the Dublin Murder Squad trying to

Mysterious Book Report No. 15 – The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

By admin|2015-12-27T10:36:57+00:00December 27th, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe (Hyperion, $25.99, 362 pages, ISBN 978-1-4013-4090-2) In commemoration of old-fashioned cursive writing, this week’s Mysterious Book Report No. 15 will be about an old-fashioned witch hunt. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane is about the search for a hand-written book of herbs, remedies and cures compiled during the colonial period by a healer named Deliverance Dane, who was later caught