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A mystery-writer-turned-biographer, Marcia Biederman is also a journalist who has contributed more than 150 pieces to The New York Times. Her work has also appeared in New York magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and the International Herald Tribune.

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	Scan Artist: How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked 3.12 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill: Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England 3.69 avg rating — 110 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mighty Force: Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Her War For Public Health 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Popovers and Candlelight: Patricia Murphy and the Rise and Fall of a Restaurant Empire 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Post no Bonds 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Sismo it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Restaurant Woman: How Patricia Murphy's Candlelight Corporation Made Her a Real-Life Mildred Pierce 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I was delighted to wake up to this review of Attic Wife by esteemed biographer Carl Rollyson in The Sun, a New York news outlet.

As I wrote the book and sought a publisher for it, many people cheered me along the way. Without the cooperation of Agnes’s descendants, as well as those of her husband by his second wife and of her aunt, Cecilia Baronovich Balenti, this book wouldn’t have been possible

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Thomas Hardy: The Complete Novels - Far From The Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure and much more..

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Karen Torghele is our witty, able guide through Albert Sabin's life, impressing upon us the broad scope of his scientific contributions while also showing us the sometimes devastating impact of his abrasive personality. Both epidemiologist and entert ...more
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Riveting. I finished it a few months ago and keep thinking about it. We watch, fascinated, as the murderer calling himself "Holmes" insinuates himself into other people's lives only to kill them. The interweaving of the plot with the story of the Wor ...more
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Marcia Biederman made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Attic Wife: The Shocking Case of Agnes Young McAlpin topic " All information for the PAPERBACK edition (ISBN etc.) is correct at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... However, the buy-the-book pull-down menu t ...more "
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How could Hardy write such cinematic scenes before the invention of cinema? Surely, he'd been born with the first-ever motion-picture camera implanted in his brain. His views of women are also decades ahead of his time. Bathsheba Everdene is both a m ...more
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