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The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty
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In his well-detailed and thoroughly researched book, The Ugly Renaissance, Alexander Lee turns our attention to the unattractive underside of what we think ...Read Review
One Summer: America 1927
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1927 was certainly an eventful year for the USA. Charles Lindbergh made the first solo transatlantic flight, and immediately became the world’s most ...Read Review
The Inventor and the Tycoon
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This is an oddly organized book containing two parallel, and briefly connected, life stories, set mostly post-Civil War. Eadweard (his spelling!) Muybridge, inventor, ...Read Review
In the Kingdom of Men
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Gin McPhee, an orphan raised in poverty by her strict Methodist grandfather, hastily weds her sweetheart Mason on finding herself pregnant. She loses ...Read Review
Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte
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It is not always good news to have a dictator in the family. It certainly did no good for Stalin’s family, and ...Read Review
Cairo Modern
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Four young men, Mahgub Abd al-Da’im, Ali Taha, Ahmad Badir and Ma’mun Radwan, meet to discuss current events in 1930s Egypt ...Read Review
Commonwealth of Thieves : The Improbable Birth of Australia
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Novelist and historian Keneally (Schindler’s List) takes on the inauspicious early years of white settlers in his homeland in this densely-packed ...Read Review
Color of the Sea
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This is a novel everyone should read, not just because it’s a nicely-layered book with depth and meaning, beautifully written and well ...Read Review
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
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Monahan and Neidel-Greenlee are the authors of All This Hell, a dramatic account of U.S. Army nurses caught in the Philippines and ...Read Review
To Live
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Fugui, wastrel scion of the Xu family, gambles away the last of their property. But in 1940s China, that is not a bad ...Read Review