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From AI (artificial intelligence) to genetically modified food, the themes and plot of the classic Mary Shelley book Frankenstein and the many versions of…
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The best-selling writer of such military and espionage novels as The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising and Patriot Games was 66.
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Local authors Maggie FitzRoy and Taryn Rodriguez-Boette recently published a new book, Images of America: Jacksonville Beach, which chronicles the…
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The 6th Annual Florida Heritage Book Festival and Writer's Conference will be held Sept. 26-28 at the World Golf Village and Flagler College campus in St.…
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India's politics and history play a central role in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland. In the Booker Prize-nominated novel, an Indian radical is killed, and his wife and brother start over in America. Lahiri tells NPR's Lynn Neary that the story was inspired by true events, but very unlike her own life.
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California parolee Charles Manson arrived in San Francisco in 1967, when the city was full of young waifs looking for a guru. In Manson, Jeff Guinn argues that if the cult leader had instead been paroled in a place like Nebraska, he likely would not have been so successful.
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During his glorious military career he logged 75,000 miles on horseback. Some might slyly suggest he also logged 75,000 lovers. But as "The Liberator"...
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Author Leah Hager Cohen says it's time to stop faking your way through conversations. "Once you finally own up to what you don't know, then you can begin to have honest interactions with the people around you," she explains.
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Humanity’s future lies in space. Unfortunately, that future is dominated by a multinational enterprise with its own cavalcade of indentured female…
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Did you have a favorite book as a child? Was there one that turned you into a lifelong reader? In this month's edition of the First Coast Connect Book…