• Book Review: Alcatraz: The Last Escape by Ken Widner and Mike Lynch

  

  For years, I’ve been fascinated by both Alcatraz as an institution as well as the famous escape. Although this book focuses far more on the escape, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of history about the jail and some of the better-known inmates included as well…

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  February 12, 2026

• Book Review: The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island by Scott Davis Dawson

  

  I’ve become moderately interested in the Lost Colony of Roanoke in the past year and found a couple of audiobooks on the subject. I haven’t looked deeply beyond that format, but I was surprised that not much was coming up on Audible. I was excited to dive into this one, but I was disappointed to…

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  February 9, 2026

• Book Review: The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale

  

  I bought this book years ago but I couldn’t remember why I was drawn to it, so I went in blindly. I don’t think I would have picked this up had I taken a deeper look into the content. Alas, it held my attention to finish it…

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  February 5, 2026

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