A Big Bed for Little Snow
by Grace Lin
MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #47
A Big Mooncake for Little Star was my favorite picture book last year, and Lin has followed it with a companion book that is a perfect match for its feeling that you have stepped into a timeless fable... (Tom)
In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
by Jack Goldsmith
TRUE
You may remember Jack Goldsmith from the Bush-Cheney years (he stood up to Cheney to stop the Stellarwind surveillance program and now is a Harvard law professor), but his life has been shadowed by a... (Tom)
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by Kate Summerscale
TRUE Phinney by Post #59
Detectives and detective fiction arose together in the 19th century, and Summerscale, with relish, uses the style of the murder mystery to unravel an infamous true-life crime that helped birth the gen... (Tom)
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