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Miss Wyoming is the story of Susan Colgate, a former Miss Wyoming, and John Johnson a Hollywood producer, and luckily, author Douglas Coupland isn’t creating the same star-crossed lovers romance that you’ve read before. This is unique, which also makes it a highly entertaining read.
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A Special Holiday Report from Agent Hunt
There are few stories more synonymous with Christmas than Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I’ve never read it myself, but I’ve seen The Muppet Christmas Carol many times, so I get the gist.
This year Lego chose to immortalise Dickens’ book in plastic bricks with a buildable scene from the book and a couple of minifigures.
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I’ll admit it. I only know Lee Mack from YouTube. At first, he was a guest on some panel shows I was watching before I went into a deeper dive of panel shows and enjoyed him on Would I Lie To You?
That show plus all the guest appearances is one of the reasons I picked up David Mitchell’s Back Story: A Memoir, and it was also enough of a reason to pick up the other team leader’s autobiography; Mack the Life by Lee Mack.
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London Match, the final piece in the first trilogy centered on Bernard Samson, does well to both stand on its own and build off of its predecessors, Berlin Game and Mexico Set. As expected, author Len Deighton delivers everything you could ever want in spy fiction with the bonus of Bernard Samson being, well, Bernard Samson!
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Amy Shira Teitel’s Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight features two characters who, while separated by 25 years in age, both lead the way for Sally Ride, but it wasn’t a smooth flight.
It’s compelling in the most dramatic of ways, and not just because the space program NASA had at the start consisted of “a bunch of rockets with a tendency to explode.” And despite a rallying cry of wanting the first woman in space to be American, it was Valentina Tereshkova from the Soviet Union who got there first.
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