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King of the Poles... Author:  Stephen Bown Their names are forever linked in history.  A little over a century ago, Norwegian Roald Amundsen and Brit Robert Falcon Scott were both on the Antarctic continent in a “race” to be the first man to stand at the South Pole.  As any history buff knows, Amundsen arrived there first, on December 14, 1911, while Scott didn’t make it until a month later and proceeded to die, along with his comrades, on the trip back.  Ever since then, Scott’s been portrayed as an ill-fated hero of the age of exploration and his tragic [...]

Gumshoe Ghost Series Premier Author: T.J. O'Connor I do love a good haunting.  And while I generally look for my hauntings to be scary, I’m okay with a friendly ghost now and then.  In author T.J. O’Connor’s debut novel, Dying to Know, we get a protagonist who is definitely on the wrong side of dead. Oliver Tucker – known to virtually everyone as Tuck – is a police officer in Winchester, Virginia.  After a long day investigating a possibly mob related murder he comes home to his history professor wife, Angela, and is shortly thereafter murdered.  No spoilers – this [...]

The Shining, The Sequel Author: Stephen King No matter how rich, famous, beloved, acclaimed or just plain awesome an author you may be, it takes nerves of steel to mess with what is probably your most successful and renowned book.  To take on a sequel 30+ years after the original made you a household name?  Lunacy.  Then again, there’s a name for lunatic authors: Stephen King.  So why wouldn’t he pick up the story of Danny Torrance, and let us find out what became of that little boy who battled the demons of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining?  Because [...]