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Can’t get enough of the election season? Enjoy every nuance of strategy? Have you ever been diagnosed as clinically insane? Just kidding! There are worse kinds of junkies to be, so enjoy the political season. And here’s a book that you might find enticing. In “The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing The God Gap,” author Amy Sullivan — a Michigan-raised evangelical — writes about John Kerry lost religious voters in 2004 and how this year’s Democratic nominee (whoever that turns out to be) can get them back.
Also new in nonfiction is “The Koch Papers,” in which the former New York City mayor writes extensively about his fight against anti-semitism.
And what would a bibliophile entry be without a mention of a historical suspense novel? In ‘A Flaw In The Blood,” author Stephanie Barron offers a murder mystery set in the Victorian Age that begins with the death of the Queen’s consort, Prince Albert. The Queen asks Patrick Fitzgerald — an embittered Irishman and sometimes opponent of the queen — to investigate Albert’s death (from typhoid fever) and find out if there is more to it. This leads the Irish barrister down a path that involves the murder of an unknown woman and a conspiracy that involves the most powerful empire on Earth. Uh, at the time. Anyway, sounds like my sort of thing, but then my sort of thing might not be yours.
