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Ralph’s 2025 Year in Books
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Ralph Ellis
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Born
Waynesville, NC, The United States
Website
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Influences
Jim Harrison (Brown Dog), William Cooper (Scenes from Provincial Life)
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Member Since
July 2024
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The Accident Report: A Ronald Truluck Novel
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| "The Shark’s Protégé" examines the interlocking forces of corruption, friendship, and family in a small town. Moogie, the lender of last resort in Harrington, Georgia, hires Bud Boyer, a tough but aimless high school grad, to collect from borrowers a ...more | |
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| This memoir is VERY personal. Tom Junod goes deep into his domineering, charismatic father's life and discovers things you don't normally reveal. Lou Junod had a lot in common with Don Draper of Mad Men. Highly sexed. Ambitious. Drinks a lot. Has a c ...more | |
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| This is a Great Big American Novel, 848 pages. It starts at the famous 1951 baseball game between the Dodgers and the Giants when Bobby Thompson hit a home run that became known as “The Shot Heard Round the World.” What happened to that baseball is a ...more | |
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| If you’re a fan of “A Christmas Story” or “Leave It To Beaver” reruns, you’ll love this YA novel. Jimmy Hamilton, 11, has adventure after adventure during the summer of 1975. He loses his beloved treehouse but gets a fort in the woods as a replacemen ...more | |
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| Lawyer Jessica Fischer is hired to defend high school football coach Tripp Wishingham in a paternity suit. The coach is a shining celebrity in the little Georgia town of Ashton, not to mention an entitled jerk. Jessica finds herself facing one ethica ...more | |
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| Raymond Chandler didn’t invent the hard-boiled crime novel, but this 1939 classic novel has come to define the genre. “The Big Sleep” has everything the genre demands: shadowy streets, urban corruption, slangy dialogue, a rotten rich family, unscrupu ...more | |
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| A sense of decline permeates this novel, the second in John le Carré’s Karla trilogy. It’s set in the 1970s as the British intelligence agency nicknamed The Circus is falling apart because of a double agent as the United States’ standing in the world ...more | |
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| Hard to believe this book was published in 1952. It’s full of violence and misogyny at levels that probably wouldn’t get published today. The first-person narrator is Lou Ford, who works as a deputy sheriff in a small Texas town and appears to be an ...more | |
