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Diana Munoz Stewart 1 Broken Promises

Munoz Stewart, Diana: Broken Promises

I know Danielle Steel and Robert Ludlum only by reputation, but this genre (Romantic Suspense)...
CECIL DAY-LEWIS

Blake, Nicholas: The Smiler with the Knife

CECIL DAY-LEWIS AKA NICHOLAS BLAKE Cecil Day-Lewis was Poet Laureate of England from 1968 until...
Nelson Mandela 1 Long Walk to Freedom

Mandela, Nelson: Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela recognized timeless truths during his decades of imprisonment. Among them (1) that there...
Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1

Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor Hugo was Dickensian before Dickens was Dickensian. I reread The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
Eric Ambler 1

Ambler, Eric: Cause for Alarm

The second oldest profession is at least as old as the oldest, but for whatever...
Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe 1

Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe

Food for thought: Ivanhoe was published in 1819, telling a story that took place in...
Berkely Mather 4

Mather, Berkley: The Pass Beyond Kashmir

This terrific novel was endorsed in its time by Ernest Hemingway, Erle Stanley Gardner, and...
Charles Dickens Bleak House 2

Dickens, Charles: Bleak House

Dickens sets a leisurely pace in his novels and in Bleak House he's at his...
Jane Smiley 2

Smiley, Jane: A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley's novel, A Thousand Acres, is often remembered as the story of King Lear...
Rebecca Kightlinger Megge of Bury Down

Kightlinger, Rebecca: The Bury Down Chronicles

Before an accident to her wrist prevented Dr. Kightlinger from continuing her vocation as a...

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