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3 weeks ago | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Zach Ewell
Lifestyle Reader's Edge the April 2025 issue It is more than a travelogue, part memoir at times, an extended rumination, a refocusing of history, and a gentle, erudite scolding on occasion where our stereotypes or commonly held beliefs do not match the facts.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Evan Friss |Chris Schneidmiller
One of the earliest known references to bookselling is found circa 600 B.C. in the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Jeremiah. Centuries later, booksellers were engaged to populate the shelves of the Library of Alexandria in 300 B.C. Many centuries after that, bookselling in Europe flourished following the invention of the Gutenberg press in 1450.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |John Banville |Joseph D. Puglisi
BOOK DETAILS The DrownedBy John BanvilleHanover Square Press$28.99 There is no overt violence, no bloody beatings or grisly shootings, only waterlogged bodies floating to the surface or washing ashore, leaving the reader to ponder how and why until the final pages. In the hands of Booker Prize-winning novelist Banville, it’s also a compelling study of how dire consequences can develop from even the smallest actions.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Patricia Highsmith |Zach Ewell
Lifestyle Reader's Edge the October 2024 issue What does it say about the reader who will be gripped by tales in this collection that from the first paragraphs are clearly leading to death, or deaths, by, for example, creeping vines or the practice of arranging your deceased, stuffed pets as garden statuary?
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Tamsin A. Mather |Chris Schneidmiller
Lifestyle Reader's Edge the September 2024 issue book details Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and OurselvesBy Tamsin MatherHanover Square Press$32.99 I cautiously read a few random pages looking for prose that will pique my curiosity, drawing me into the author’s thesis or the fictional world being created.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Michiko Kakutani |Chris Schneidmiller
Lifestyle Reader's Edge the July/August 2024 issue A review of The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider The only thing that we can agree on in this country is that we cannot agree on anything related to politics, social policy, personal rights, the United States Constitution, animal rights, or the proper way to sear tuna (OK, the seared tuna opinion is my own). Is civil discourse a thing of the past?
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May 26, 2024 | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Robert Stevenson |Zach Ewell
Lifestyle Reader's Edge the June 2024 issue A review of Treasure Island Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island remains a seafaring classic of Western literature. What’s more, all holes at Spyglass Hill Golf Course in Pebble Beach bear the name of a character or place from the book. BOOK DETAILS Treasure IslandBy Robert Louis StevensonPenguin Random House$10 Stevenson was a Scot and a rebel who grew his hair long and declared himself an atheist.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Douglas Brunt |Zach West
Lifestyle Reader's Edge the May 2024 issue A review of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I “There, near the mouth of the Scheldt River along the eastern edge of the English Channel, in the rippling black, the men on the small vessel realized what they’d seen. It was a body.” It is Oct. 11, 1913.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Chris Schneidmiller
Fast Focus U.S. banks spent billions of dollars to buy insurance agencies starting in 1999, hoping for cross-selling opportunities to promote client stickiness and strengthen balance sheets. By 2006, banks owned 16% of the 100 largest agencies. Cross-selling never reached hoped-for levels, and insurance agencies proved a difficult fit within the tightly regulated banking industry. Banks began divesting their insurance businesses over a decade ago.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Marc Hamer |Zach Ewell
Lifestyle Reader's Edge the April 2024 issue A review of Spring Rain: A Life Lived in Gardens Spring Rain: A Life Lived in Gardens by Marc Hamer presents just such a conundrum. Is Spring Rain a memoir, spiritual tract, self-help guide or gardening journal? It was such a gratifying and immersive reading experience that there is no need to box in this lush, beautifully written meditation on the lifesaving power of the natural world.
