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... meet to discuss and make a choice that will change their lives irrevocably - whatever they decide. These eight women, ... book. Normally I'd say read the book first, but both are so well done that I think you're okay to do them in either ...
... very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive." James Baldwin, author I often am filled with delight ... the drawing rooms of millions of American and European dwellings. On February 2, 1948, the Madison Free Library ...
... Rozie is a quick study. Her background makes her well-suited to moving between the rarified world of Mayfair ... make effective detectives. And as an octogenarian who has lived through the tumult of the twentieth century and a ... an irascible hoot.) Likewise, her depiction of Rozie is well done, and she appears not as a subordinate to Her ...
... house This is the story of a farmhouse, and the family that lived there, and the passage of time, and the ... this old farmhouse and exploring the rundown treasures as well as researching the history of the family who lived there. Sophie Blackall Farmhouse ...
... to learn that Angie Thomas grew up in Mississippi as well. Her joy at recognizing similarities with this author ... teens with authors that are reflective of their own lives. She’s hoping to encourage authors to host events at ...
... the recent death of his father, supposedly by suicide, as well as the quick remarriage of his mother to her ... parents and their church, moves to London where he can live freely as a gay man. eBook Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. ... to edit a badly-written anti-communist book based on the lives of the recently-executed Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. ...
... many modern women. It’s the situation Christine de Pizan lives in, but her world—1393 Paris—is far from modern in ... of historical mysteries who may want to move beyond the well-trod shores of England, readers of mysteries featuring ...
... wrong in publishing. Richard Wright wrote The Man Who Lived Underground nearly 80 years ago and it was partially ... Random House, readers have access to the full work as well as an essay that provides essential background ...
... unhappiness breaks into the public. Few know the score as well as Go Fug Yourself bloggers Heather Cocks and Jessica ... And while Bex and Nick went into their marriage and new lives with eyes fully open, the realities of setting up a ... Their supporting cast of characters is entertainingly lively, and spotting veiled references to current British ...
Gunslinger Lizbeth Rose lives in what used to be the United States, but after the ... by train from Texoma into Dixie where they're to deliver the crate they've been transporting (and guarding). ... and history and then peopling them with characters who are well-developed, one and all. If you haven't yet read book ...
... and her mother make it out of their small Georgia cabin alive, but his death sends them north to 1920's Pittsburgh, ... huge manor house is full of the secrets of the living, as well as the dead. A thoughtful and emotionally honest work of historical fiction, Ophie's Ghosts is equal-parts well-paced mystery and supernatural thriller, and I couldn't ...
... of the Global Economy . Crane, David. Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo . Crawford, Matthew B. The ... Gordon, Charlotte. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley . ... Jon. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed . Sacks, Oliver. On the Move: A Life . Schultz, Howard. For Love ...
... killing all the country’s Jews in a national pogrom. Greenwell, Garth. What Belongs to You . A gay American poet ... flees his country after his father’s assassination and lives as a refugee in a corrupt country nearby; after his ... that begins in 1920, an 11-year-old English girl is sent to live with her father in Jerusalem, and is persuaded by her ...