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The Siege of Troy
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During the Second World War, a boy whom we may assume is the author in memoir recounts events. Germans occupy the town, his ...Read Review
Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan
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This profoundly painful, beautifully written, and deeply moving fictional biography of Africa’s first canonized Catholic saint plunges the reader into the bottomless ...Read Review
The Hundred Wells of Salaga
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Near the end of the 19th century, as transatlantic slavery has been essentially abolished, internal slavery persists in Ghana. Two quite different young ...Read Review
Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America
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This biography of Dale Carnegie is as engrossing as a good novel. Born in 1888, Carnegie rose from boyhood poverty in rural Missouri. At ...Read Review
The Elixir of Immortality
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Ari Spinoza, the last surviving member of his family, is dying. Childless and at the end of his family’s long line of ...Read Review
A True Novel
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Japanese readers fell in love with 19th-century western literature because it strove to transcend daily life to focus on the “ideal” existence. However, ...Read Review
This House is Haunted
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Norfolk, 1867. Eliza Caine, aged 21, is alone in the world after the sudden death of her father. Still grieving, on a whim she moves ...Read Review
The Reservoir
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Based upon an old Richmond, Virginia court case, The Reservoir is a complex first novel that is a simmering blend of Southern tragedy, ...Read Review
Galore
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“Newfoundland seemed too severe and formidable, too provocative, too extravagant and singular and harrowing to be real. He half expected to never lay ...Read Review
The Wrong Blood
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After reading this book, I found myself agreeing with the blurb on the dust jacket – a rare event. In essence, it is about ...Read Review