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The Cauliflower®
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This is a historical novel like no other I have read. The author herself suggests that the book is more a collage, with ...Read Review
Gwendolen
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Gwendolen is a retelling of George Eliot’s classic Victorian novel Daniel Deronda and finally gives a clear voice to its ill-starred heroine. ...Read Review
Til the Well Runs Dry
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Secrets abound in Francis-Sharma’s sparkling debut novel. Marcia Garcia – pronounced so her first and last names rhyme – is a smart and sassy ...Read Review
Vengeance
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Benjamin Black, pseudonym for Irish writer John Banville, has written number five in a series of crime noir novels featuring Detective Inspector Hackett ...Read Review
A Possible Life
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How do the choices we make radically change our lives, in terms of our overall trajectory, our relationships, our beliefs? In Faulks’ (Charlotte ...Read Review
The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
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John Kelly’s account of the Irish potato famine is a thoroughly researched and smoothly written story of the events that led to ...Read Review
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year
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As our country struggles to define its future and conquer rising debt, we turn hopeful eyes to Abraham Lincoln. Against all odds, that ...Read Review
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
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In this absorbing biography, Harriet Reisen examines the intriguing life of Louisa May Alcott. Written in an engaging narrative that keeps the pages ...Read Review
An Incomplete Revenge
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Wandering gypsies and East Enders from London converge in 1931 for the traditional September hops-picking by migrant workers, in the village of Heronsdene in ...Read Review
The House The Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste and Power in Twentieth-Century America
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Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller Sr. became rich through hard work, simple living and vigorous acquisition of failing companies that were in ...Read Review
