NYC set – The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash
The famous Dakota Building, John Lennon and NYC This is a novel of many layers. It's a coming of age story about father and son, but it's also the story…
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The famous Dakota Building, John Lennon and NYC This is a novel of many layers. It's a coming of age story about father and son, but it's also the story…
Adventure to the Artic with the The Polar Bear Explorers' Club ! A great rolicking adventure in a book. If you have ever wanted to be an explorer, then this is…
A novel of crime and murder set in the Pyrenees A book which transports you to the heart of the Pyrenees and Catalonia. This sounds like a nice setting but…
The fire at the Los Angeles Public Library 1986 A library burns....not sure I wanted to read this at first. What could be a more sorry and tragic sight that…
Five books with food as a theme So, hands up. Who has dropped their New Year's resolutions to eat less cake? Eat less in general? No? Still on track?Well with…
1945: There are suspected collaborators in the upper echelons of French society
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