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The Baker’s Secret

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Life got in the way of my financially negligent, selflessly ego-driven reviews, so I’m playing catch up with a stack of 5 books consumed over the last two months. I say this to point out that my memory is neither sharp nor oft accurate and therefore ...

Unexpected Gifts

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Unexpected Gifts by S. R. Mallery takes the reader on a journey through recent history: The Great Depression, Bulgarians’ Immigration experience at Ford Motors in Detroit, Women’s Suffrage, Woodstock, Civil Rights, and Vietnam. The author weaves a ...

The Woman in the Photo

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To communicate the tragic circumstances and the role that human flaw plays in the Johnstown flood of 1889, author Mary Hogan starts with a photograph. The photo binds two women – Elizabeth Haberlin and Lee Parker – in a story that Hogan begins ...

All the Light We Cannot See

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Combine elegant prose, a riveting tale that alternates between story time, and storyline, a provocative topic, war — unfortunately, always a provocative topic — and the predilection of the human spirit to survive even after losing all that is good in ...

Eternity’s Trap

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History is an amazing reality. We can learn so much just by looking back at what has come before, and how similar our lives really are to people from long ago. Or how different! If a storyteller can make history come to life we are in for a real ...