Media figures have credited House Speaker Paul Ryan with thrusting the
supposedly "forgotten" issue of poverty into the 2016 Republican
presidential race following his partici...
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The Soldier's Wife
author: Pamela Hart
PUBLISHED: October 8th 2015 by Pia...
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BOWEN: I've just had a week of family togetherness--children, spouses,
grandc...
It's almost the new year and at this time of year not only do we
reflect back on what we've done, we booknerds reflect on what books
we've read. NEW YEARS DAY IS ALSO THE CELE...
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love looking back at my reading and blogging life at th...
The year's best Mercury letters to the editor!
THE BEST MERCURY LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF 2015
Welcome to the annual roundup of the year's very best angry, sad,
funny, and...
if I were to ask you a question about your book
and sum it up into one word it would be, Why?
I think I like Walt Whitman better than you. I just don't
get literature, b...
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LUCY BURDETTE: [htt...
"I THOUGHT IT WAS HIS GHOST AT FIRST" [NOBL]
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(Livie) Greyson and Maddie Briggs, cookie mavens and crime fighters.
From THE COOKIE CUTTER SHOP MYS...
Times have changed, and so have the rules. Modern grownups need a
sex-positive guide to communicating digitally with their lover, and
sex guru Tina Horn is here to help you wi...