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Reading & Literature

Luscious Liqueurs

In: Gourmet/Regional Cookbooks

By: Feature Writer Trevy Thomas

Combine alcohol with herbs, fruit, nuts and other natural flavors, then decant in a beautiful vessel for a delightful gift or special cocktail party drink. more...

An Extrordinary Story: The Girls by Lori Lansens

In: Lifestyle/Pop Culture Books

By: Feature Writer Victoria Oldham

The Girls, Rose and Ruby Darlen are craniopagus twins; women attached at the head but no where else. This poignant story is written from their alternating points of view more...

Peak District Detective Mystery

In: Detective Fiction

By: Feature Writer Mike Gerrard

Stephen Booth's DC Ben Cooper investigates crimes involving birds' eggs and birds of prey in Derbyshire's Peak District National Park in the long short story Claws more...

Book Review: Girl in a Blue Dress

In: British/UK Fiction

By: Feature Writer Elizabeth Gregory

How does it feel to be the wronged wife of a national treasure? Gaynor Arnold gives a voice to Mrs Charles Dickens in this enjoyable novel. more...

Legally Dead by Edna Buchanan

In: Mystery/Crime Fiction

By: Feature Writer Sandy Mitchell

US Marshall, Michael Venturi spent his career new identities for people in the witness protection program. Now, he's freelancing...with unexpectedly deadly results. more...

Aunt Dimity:Vampire Hunter by Nancy Atherton

In: Mystery/Crime Fiction

By: Feature Writer Sandy Mitchell

When her twin boys come home with a tale of a vampire in the woods, Lori is skeptical. She shouldn't be; the sighting holds the clue to strange happenings in the area. more...

Asimov's SF October/November 2008

In: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction

By: Feature Writer Colin Harvey

Nancy Kress, Leslie What, Ian R MacLeod and Robert Reed contribute fiction, Mike Allen and Jane Yolen poetry and James Patrick Kelly and Robert Silverberg provide opinion more...

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