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Martin’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Martin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Martin Langfield
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The Wheel of Violence
I wrote recently about cycles of generational violence and trauma for my good friends at News Decoder. It’s about El Salvador, where I worked in the early 1990s, but it could be about many other places too. Repression and violence breed future trauma, and where trauma is unresolved there is no lasting peace.
FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador, 1991. Photograph by Martin Langfield Read more of this blog post »
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The Malice Box
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The Secret Fire
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2009
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13 editions
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| Anyone who has contended with overconfident know-it-alls parachuting in from distant headquarters to tell them how to do their jobs will relate to the travails of Phil Bardo. Bardo is the protagonist of Gordon K. Duguid's fascinating novel of diploma ...more | |
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| Delightful vignettes set in a literary world, Jane Austen's, that the author clearly knows inside out and wickedly subverts at every opportunity. "Crime and Prejudice" displays a refined sense of mischief and a complete mastery of Austen-esque style ...more | |
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| "How Not To Kill a Spy," the author's second Septimus Brass novel, builds on the first, "Armistice Day," to paint a more complex portrait of the cranky, creaky sleuth himself as well as the key figures in his world, especially a talented but seemingl ...more | |
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| Miya T. Beck's "The Pearl Hunter" is a sophisticated work of fiction that will enchant its declared middle-grade target audience as well as readers who are rather longer in the tooth. If the children or grandchildren can eventually be persuaded to sh ...more | |
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| "Dateline Baghdad" recounts the adventures of a tyro foreign correspondent amid the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq nearly 20 years ago. It is several tales in one, some more light-hearted than others. The novel builds up a powerful head of steam in its se ...more | |
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| John Fullerton's latest novel, "Armistice Day," is a spy thriller with a (broken) heart at its center that satisfies and fascinates on several levels. Early echoes of "The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth (like Fullerton, an ex-Reuters novelis ...more | |
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A delightful follow-up to "The Pearl Hunter" by an author of proven skill and imagination. Congratulations to Miya T. Beck, who again draws on Japanese folklore and myth to weave a captivating tale for middle-grade readers and beyond. Her protagonist ...more |
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| "Letting the House Go" is a resonant, luminous read about loss, the undying past and making amends. Robert Crooke's protagonist, Richard Morris, is a confident, worldly author who seems to have also been an emotional coward for much of his life. His ...more | |
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The History Book ...:
FIVE - 2015 - Readathon Four Date: August 22, 2015 - Midnight - 4AM (August 23) - Check-In - CHECKPOINT FIVE - FIFTH CHECK IN
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| Nothing But Readi...: ROUND II: Team Leonidas | 768 | 282 | Sep 22, 2015 07:20PM | |
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BOOKS READ IN 2015/2016 READATHONS
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The History Book ...:
SEVEN - CHECK OUT HERE - 2015 - Readathon Four - Date: August 22, 2015 - 8 AM ON AUGUST 23RD - FINAL CHECKOUT - THIS IS CHECKPOINT SEVEN - WHICH IS CHECKOUT - LAST STOP - MANDATORY FOR TOTALS - FINAL TALLIES - MANDATORY CHECKPOINT - ONLY CHECK OUT THREAD
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