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Review: Rosemary In Bloom: Love In The Midst Of War 0
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- August 22, 2019
A tale of love in the midst of World War II, between 1942-1950. Inspired by a true story, this touching love story between Rosemary and Albert who fall in love began from their meeting at Paddock club. Their love is soon derailed by Albert’s noble patriotic duty, and Rosemary’s fear of being abandoned and alone.
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Review: The Irrationalist: Solving The Mystery Of Descartes’s Death 0
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- July 22, 2019
November 10, 1619. In a clearing within the Black Forest a gentleman and his servant begin an argument, resulting in a rapier duel to the death. When one is disabled his antagonist runs him through the chest and walks away. René Descartes died in Sweden in 1650, and based on most accounts, from pneumonia. The Irrationalist
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Review: Copper Sky Highlights Women’s Struggles In An Early 20th Century Mining Town 0
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- June 24, 2019
Most of our stories and images of mining towns are about men, so I was intrigued by this novel about women in Butte, Montana. Copper Sky, by Milana Marsenich, tells the connected stories of two very different women in this town. The novel starts off slowly, with a lot of repetition of the key facts.
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Review: Eat The Evidence: Documenting The Life Of A Suspected Serial Killer 0
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- June 10, 2019
Bar Jonah liked to break his victims. To create a fissure in their being that would last a lifetime so that when the thin-membrane scar of the crevasse was ruptured, the hydra would re-emerge and consume them once again from the inside out. At least with one victim however, he not only broke him, he
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Review: Copper Sky: Fierce, Feminine Courage In Early 20th Century Butte, Montana 0
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- May 27, 2019
1917 Butte, Montana. A harsh, crude, lawless historical mining town and the setting for Milana Marsenich’s debut novel, Copper Sky. Kaly Shane and her twin sister Anne Marie were orphaned at a very young age after the Warehouse Fire of 1895 claimed the lives of their family and are sent to the Polly May –
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Review: The Ballet Lover: A Journalist Documents Onstage Drama Between Nureyev And Makarova 0
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- May 20, 2019
GoodReads Blurb: The Ballet Lover exposes the beauty and cruelty of ballet, the performances, the back stage moments, and the personal dramas of the famous ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Natalia Makarova as seen through the eyes of an American female journalist. Paris, 1970s: the orchestra plays the first ominous note of Swan Lake. In the audience
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