As relayed in the Jefferson Starship classic “White Rabbit,” “One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small.” But in The Mirror Man by J.B. Manas, one man can read memories and the other can make you forget.
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Get lost in the deep purpose of Eleanor Rigby
Loneliness, purpose, existence, and the meaning of it all. You won’t get answers to any of life’s questions, but you’ll get perspective and something to think about from Liz Dunn’s first-person narrative and life in Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland.
Declassify >Field of Red Tape: ‘Our Team’ is a fantastic study of stadium ownership through the lens of the SWB Red Barons
Our Team: Insights from the Publicly Owned Scraton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, is a brilliant case study. It reads both informationally and educationally like a complex short story focused on government, improvement, and a central question; “Should local government own the home team to protect the public’s facility investment?”
Now, before I go on, context is necessary, for both the book and for my relationship to the area. The book was published in 1999.
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MAMista rains Deighton’s spy sensibilities into the jungle
“The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle cradling their AK-47’s, dusting off the slabs of Semtex and dreaming of world revolution.”
Declassify >Black and Blue is a bruising baseball history of the ’66 World Series
I’ve never met Tom Adelman, but I feel as though we just had a wonderful conversation. Black and Blue: The Golden Arm, the Robinson Boys, and the 1966 World Series That Stunned America was the conversation we shared.
This book is fantastic, and that’s coming from an Orioles fan who has also enjoyed Dodger baseball for the past decade plus. Through telecasts I’ve absorbed the history of both clubs, but this book does something else.
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