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Author: Leon Newton ISBN: 0741423936 The Newspaper Boy by Leon Newton takes a hard look at bigotry and its consequences through the eyes of a young Irish lad growing up in New York’s Lower East Side during the early part of the last century. The story unfolds as we we learn about the poverty
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"Sweet Revenge" is an exceptional read. Just as Kathy Singer, its attractive London-based businesswoman and heroine, was captured in the story, the book captured me. You live her adventure with her. As many of you know, I review many books on writing and food and a few on fiction. This is due to
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Company of Liars is a well written historical novel set at the time of the Great Plague in Europe, 1348. The disease has just reached the shores of England and the populace are starting to panic as it spreads across the country, sparing no-one. Although this is the background, the tale essentially
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Ishmael Reed's essay “The World is Here” is preceded by a well-chosen excerpt from a 1983 New York Times article which evokes an image that epitomizes the two tiered concept of Ishmael's proceeding essay. Reed offers several examples of cultural blending from inside the walls of a McDonald's
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Boston area bred, debut author Amy MacKinnon, uses her hometown surroundings as the setting for undertaker, Clara Marsh's suspenseful life experiences, in Tethered (Shaye Areheart, 2008). Clara is employed at the Bartholomew Funeral Home. The Home's owners, Linus and Alma Bartholomew, befriended
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It's not easy to raise a child. Before my children were born, I genuinely thought I would be the ideal caregiver. I had spent a great deal of time with children, as I was a teacher before I had two of my own, and I felt that I had an excellent handle on what would be involved when raising children
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night is the tale of how Christopher John Francis Boone solved the mystery of the murder of his neighbour's pet dog. Christopher suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and sees the world in a very different way to the way most of us do. For Christopher the most co
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Reading is one of America's biggest pastimes across all age groups. However, not everyone finds it easy to decide on what book to read next. Do you solely scan the New York Times Bestsellers' List and make your choice based upon it? What if the New York Times Bestsellers' List leaves you reading a
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The Covenant with Black America is the brainchild of Tavis Smiley. For the past seven years, the talk show host has had his own "State of the Black Union" symposium. Seeing that simply exchanging opinions with the nation's top black leaders was not sufficient, he decided to chart a course for the
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