Category: History
Stalking Jack the Ripper
by Shannon Fox
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father’s wishes and society’s expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle’s laboratory to study the gruesome practice of … Read More Stalking Jack the Ripper
Ghost Bully: Review and Interview With Author Brian Corley
by Shannon Fox
Ghost Bully by Brian Corley Roommates can be hell. Like when they’re late with the rent, late on bills, or constantly trying to kill you. Jonah Preston thought he knew what he was getting into after signing the paperwork to buy his new home: yard work, a leaky pipe here and there, maybe the occasional squirrel in the attic. He just didn’t expect to … Read More Ghost Bully: Review and Interview With Author Brian Corley
Writing Project Wednesday: Tesla, Edison, and The War of Currents
by Shannon Fox
While the feud between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison predates my novel-in-progress, it’s still a fascinating story that few people are familiar with in present day. If you’re a younger person, you’ve probably seen The Oatmeal’s lengthy comic which summarizes Tesla’s life and also mentions the famous feud. You can see that full comic here. I’m going to summarize the issues and introduce you … Read More Writing Project Wednesday: Tesla, Edison, and The War of Currents
Authority
by Shannon Fox
By Jeff VanderMeer After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X–a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization–has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray. … Read More Authority
+ Fiction, Historical, History
All the Light We Cannot See
by Shannon Fox
By Anthony Doerr Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris … Read More All the Light We Cannot See
The Hunt For Atlantis
by Shannon Fox
By Andy McDermott Archaeologist Nina Wilde can find long-lost Atlantis, helped by reclusive billionaire Kristian Frost, his beautiful daughter Kari, and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase. But a powerful and mysterious organization opposes revealing the secret submerged for 11,000 years. Others have already died — Nina’s own parents. From the streets of Manhattan, Brazilian jungle, Tibetan mountaintop, to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, they race to … Read More The Hunt For Atlantis
Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
by Shannon Fox
By Allen Hornblum, Judith Lynn Newman, and Gregory Dober During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the perceived threats coming from the Soviet Union. In Against Their Will, authors Allen Hornblum, Judith Newman, … Read More Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
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