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The Mechanic
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This novel, which spans over 50 years, from World War II to 1998, depicts the devastating effects of the Jewish Holocaust and Nuremberg trials, and ...Read Review
The Tin Triangle
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A heartfelt fictionalization of the experiences of a Newfoundland regimental soldier before and during the Battle of the Somme. On the morning of ...Read Review
The Other Side of the World
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Becoming a first-time mother can be difficult, especially with a fussy baby. Despite a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, in 1963 Charlotte ...Read Review
Bamboo Heart
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In the late 1930s, Tom Ellis has found his perfect niche in Penang as overseer of United Rubber. He is his own master, ...Read Review
House of the Rising Sun
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Part of a series by veteran and best-selling author James Lee Burke, this novel presents the seemingly incessant travails of its protagonist, erstwhile ...Read Review
Casey’s Last Chance
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In July 1960, the revelations about Nazi war crimes were only fifteen years old. Only two months before, in May 1960, Nazi war criminal Adolf ...Read Review
Wisconsin Logging Camp, 1921: A Boy’s Extraordinary First Year in America Working as a “Chickadee”
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Will Heinlein is only eight years old when he finds himself an orphan. Suddenly he is a new immigrant to the United States ...Read Review
The Darkness and the Thunder
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As the year 1915 begins, a stalemate occurs with the allies, led by France and Great Britain on the western front, while Russia in ...Read Review
The Voyage of the Dolphin
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Dublin, February 1916, and three students, Fitzmaurice, Rafferty and Crozier, are at Trinity College amidst a combination of student pranks, Home Rule disturbances, and ...Read Review
The House of Smoke
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It’s 1900 and Simeon Lynch is sitting in a stinking cell in Newgate prison, awaiting his execution for murder. Rightly so, as Lynch ...Read Review
