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Spotlight: Spotlight: Turn of the Century Vienna: Freud, Pastry, and Murder

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Current Picks

Spotlight: Turn of the Century Vienna: Freud, Pastry, and Murder Two current mystery series use 1900 era Vienna as their setting. Frank Tallis’s Liebermann Papers series follows psychiatrist Max Liebermann as he assists his friend Detective Oscar Rheinhardt as he … Continue reading →

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Spotlight: Man’s Best Friend

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Current Picks

Spotlight: Man’s Best Friend Waiting for Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean (2011)? Try one of these classic stories about man’s best friend. Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight (2003) is the classic story of … Continue reading →

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Spotlight: The Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Current Picks

Spotlight: The Spellmans by Lisa Lutz Lisa Lutz created a delightfully zany family in the Spellmans. Follow their hilarious antics in the quartet: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, and The Spellmans Strike Again. Although … Continue reading →

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Spotlight: Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Current Picks

Spotlight: Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne In Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, siblings Jack and Annie travel in a tree house. An enchantress from Camelot, Morgan, cast a spell on the tree house. Jack and Annie travel to places … Continue reading →

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Spotlight: Graham Greene

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Current Picks

Spotlight: Graham Greene Graham Greene was one of the most important and popular English writers of the mid-twentieth century and his works are defined by that century. The Blitz (The End of the Affair – 1951), the Vietnam issues (The … Continue reading →

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Spotlight: Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Current Picks

Spotlight: Ruth Rendell and Barbara Vine Ruth Rendell, who also writes under the name Barbara Vine, is an English bestselling mystery and psychological crime writer. Her Ruth Rendell novels are about police detective Chief Inspector Wexford, guardian of fictional south … Continue reading →

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