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Murder on the Menu or ‘Till Death Do you Part Author: Joanne Fluke After 21 books and many will-she-won’t she moments, Hannah is finally ready to make her decision, chose one forever partner, and tie the knot. But, you really didn’t think that it was going to be all wedding cake and glitz, now did you? Hannah’s already stressed about her upcoming ceremony and is relieved that her sisters and mother are leading the efforts. When she gets invited to participate in a national televised cooking challenge (taking place right before her wedding) the stakes are upped and typical to [...]

The First Bond Novel is an Edgy, Disturbing MustAuthor: Ian Fleming In 1953, closeted in Jamaica at his Goldeneye Estate, waiting for his own marriage, Ian Fleming created a legend that has long outlived both him and his initial story lines. Introducing the hardened spy, sometimes assassin, James Bond, and capitalizing on Cold War tensions, Casino Royale begins a series that will breed many adaptations – including movies which are still being produced today. As the series grows, expands, and starts over again, Bond exchanges one suave no-nonsense personality for another, evolving with the changing taste of audiences and the [...]

Alien x 8... Author:  Sy Montgomery There’s no particular reason humans should be able to understand other animals.  Truth be told, we often struggle to understand each other.  But there may be no intelligent creature more foreign to the human experience than the octopus.  For the past 500 million years humans and octopuses have evolved their substantial cognitive abilities on vastly different branches of the evolutionary tree, so that a seemingly impassable gulf now exists between the species.  How is a 98 degree, hairy, bony, air-breathing biped supposed to understand a 47 degree, boneless, eight-limbed, water-breathing blob covered in suction [...]