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Gardens in the Dunes
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In Gardens In The Dunes, Leslie Marmon Silko writes about Indigo, a child of the Sand Lizard people, a tribe on the brink ...Read Review
The Summer of ’39: A Novel
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Seymour has effectively used the first person narrative voice to write a compelling novel about a woman’s downward spiral into self-delusion and ...Read Review
Day of the Bees
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Zermano, the Spanish painter who depicted the horror of modern war, not in “Guernica” but in “Archangel Gabriel Flames Down the Sky.” His ...Read Review
The Dark Side of the Sun
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In 1928 Sybil Fox and her daughter Mary come to live at Harding Hall, where Sybil is hired as governess to the four Harding ...Read Review
The Sands of Sakkara
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One of the possible turning points of World War II — looking back on it, it could easily have gone the other way — came ...Read Review
The blood libel
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Winnipeg, 1911. Little Anna, who comprehends little English, is murdered after she overhears two men arguing. The killer mutilates her body and leaves behind ...Read Review
Off the Mangrove Coast
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Louis L’Amour is likely to be one of the three most well-known western writers of all time. I’d place Zane Grey ...Read Review
The Loki Project
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The Atomic Bomb became possible as a war-winning weapon following the groundbreaking laboratory efforts of the largely forgotten German chemist Otto Hahn in 1938. ...Read Review
Daughter of My People
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In rural South Carolina in 1918, the social taboos in existence prior to the Civil War are still adhered to, but Hart Bonner has ...Read Review
Molly
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Friendship and families both provoke powerful emotions, particularly for women. Molly, the debut novel by Nancy J. Jones, explores how two young girls, ...Read Review
