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Adding books to The Hawaii Project

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The Hawaii Project finds great books you’d never find on your own. We do that by crawling a curated set of the “bookish” web and seeing what books people are...

So you want to learn about Jazz…

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The best way to learn about jazz is to listen to jazz. That said, put some jazz on your playlist WHILE you read some books about jazz.

Hemingway in Cuba

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So, I’m planning on going to see Papa Hemingway in Cuba this weekend. I was introduced to the topic of Hemingway in Cuba through the wonderful novel The Croo...

Books about female spies

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Inspired by my reading The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, the first espionage book I’ve read with a female protagonist, I did some research on books with female...

The Travelers, by Chris Pavone

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For a long time, I’ve wondered about how to characterize the difference between a spy novel and and a spy thriller. After reading a review copy of Chris Pavo...