• To kill a mocking bird

    Review: To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee Overview (from Britannica) To Kill a Mockingbird, Novel by Harper Lee, published in 1960. It is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Ala., during the Great Depression. The protagonist is Jean Louise (“Scout”) Finch, an intelligent and unconventional girl who ages from six to nine years old […]

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  • Wandering Souls

    Review: Wandering Souls, Cecile Pin Overview (from Waterstones) An extraordinary and heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated by seas or death itself. There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies – everything in between is speculation. One night, not long after the last American troops […]

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  • Before The Coffee Gets Cold

    Overview In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold , we meet four visitors, each of […]

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  • Ink, blood, sister, scribe

    Overview Joanna Kalotay lives alone in the woods of Vermont, the sole protector of a collection of rare books; books that will allow someone to walk through walls or turn water into wine. Books of magic. Her estranged older sister Esther moves between countries and jobs, constantly changing, never staying anywhere longer than a year, […]

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