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View Article#5: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet
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View Article#9: Gone With the Wind
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View Article#16: The Seeing Stone
TITLE: The Seeing Stone (Arthur, Book I) AUTHOR: Kevin Crossley-Holland PAGES: 342 When the mysterious, whimsical Merlin presents thirteen-year-old Arthur with a stone that grants him visions of his...
View ArticleThe Lotus Eaters
TITLE: The Lotus Eaters AUTHOR: Tatjana Soli FORMAT: e-book, 404 pages Helen Adams came to war-torn Vietnam with dreams of becoming a combat photographer — one of the rare women to plunge into the...
View ArticleRestless
TITLE: Restless AUTHOR: William Boyd FORMAT: Hardcover, 324 pages It’s 1976, and Ruth Gilmartin is working as an English language tutor for Oxford while raising her young son alone. On Saturdays they...
View ArticleThe Fire Horse Girl
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View ArticleThe Book of Blood and Shadow
TITLE: The Book of Blood and Shadow AUTHOR: Robin Wasserman FORMAT: eBook, 450 pages There are books I’ve read, long books that pivot back and forth between the past and the present, that nevertheless...
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