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Newsletter #248

October 7, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Black Hole

Black Hole

by Charles Burns

MADE-UP

When I'm asked for a favorite Seattle book, I usually choose one of two titles: Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (and its sequel, How I Grew), set in her teen years in the 1920s, and th... (Tom)

Cover of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

by William Dalrymple

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How did a corporation conquer one of the world's great civilizations? Dalrymple's storytelling gifts and his mastery of the archives of many nations and languages are on display once again as he shows... (Tom)

Cover of The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming

The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming

by J. Anderson Coats

MADE-UP

I should perhaps be focusing on Coats's newest book, the middle-grade fantasy The Green Children of Woolpit, but it's just come out and well, I haven't read it yet. But I really want to, based on how... (James)

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