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Big Jim Stronge -



His father said he'd be the best pitcher ever.

His mother believed he would take his place in the family line of concert pianists.

After nineteen years in the majors, most ballplayers would consider themselves successful, but Jim Stronge doesn't. His choice of baseball over music haunts him. He's forty-one, and he still hasn't done what he always believed he would; win thirty games in a season and… Continue

After a five-year $27 million study, the IJC (International Joint Commission), governing body of the St Lawrence Seaway, which extends from Montreal as far west as the Welland Canal connecting Lakes Ontario and Erie, will next month propose changes in the the rate of discharge from Lake Ontario.



Three possible courses of action are seen: leave things pretty much the same; increase the overall volume of outflow; or tweak the current program. A fourth possibility, reduce total outflow,… Continue

Review of "Recycling Jimmy" by Andy Tilley

To say the least, in Andy Tilley's brash novel "Recycling Jimmy", antihero Jimmy's judgment is suspect. He's foolish, irreverent, and passive; just what you'd expect from a bloke whose emotional development got euthanized sometime during his teens. In the opening scene…

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From his first words, Dr. Robert Mallory, narrator and newly appointed physician of The Magdalene Ladies Lunatic Asylum, grasps the reader’s fullest attention, and rarely does his grip loosen as the theme of Rosemary Poole-Carter’s fascinating historical novel, Women of Magdalene, unfolds.

The young doctor, influenced by an undisclosed personal tragedy and further damaged by years as a Civil War surgeon, takes charge of physical medicine at the asylum, but each time the…

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If you think the wreck of HMS Ontario, the lost British warship I feature in my novel The Secret Ever Keeps, is at all far-fetched, here's a bit of news that will interest you. This week, shipwreck enthusiast Ken Kennard of Rochester NY announced the discovery of the schooner Orcadian, lost in Lake Ontario west of… Continue

Garth Stein's latest effort, working-titled The Art of Racing in the Rain, and recently auctioned for a reported 1.2 million to Harper, is a lock to become next summer's sensation. Since we met online in 1998 as members of a well-known novel critique list, Garth has become a mentor, valued friend, and tireless guide to…

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