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The Last Gift  In 1792, Paris is in flames and the hungry
guillotine waits . . . .In The Last Gift, the reader is woven into the fabric of the French Revolution, one of the most chaotic and violent social upheavals of all time. Strong and resourceful heroines, an intrepid hero and a complex and terrifying nemesis are ingredients in a tale of passionate love, bright courage and dark revenge that carries the reader from the royal palace to the shadow of the guillotine. Jubilee is an innocent young American girl in Paris with her family. One summer afternoon Jubilee’s world comes tumbling down. She is secretly in love with Jake, her father’s handsome, young business partner, and though he asks for her hand in marriage, something is wrong. That same day Jubilee’s father discovers something ugly and mysterious that involves both Jake and her father’s French business associate Edouard Larousse. That night Jubilee’s parents are murdered and she is abducted and imprisoned in a brothel. Marie, a resourceful and worldly-wise veteran of the Paris underworld, befriends Jubilee and helps her escape—but not before something even more horrifying happens that changes Jubilee’s life forever. $10.99 at Amazon |
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1930s San Francisco, one night a man dies in the arms of Lady Margaret
Thompson, Countess of Chesterleigh. Inspector Monahan is a hard-boiled
cop whose dearest wish is for Her Ladyship to stay out of police work.
The odds are against it. "Twists
and turns, red herrings, clues that aren't clues--all await the happily
unwary reader in a tightly plotted tale by a very talented
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Dick or The WhaleThe Good Parts By Herman Melville Edited by Susan Brassfield Cogan When this book was published in 1851, reading for pleasure was still a fairly new idea. There were no televisions, no movies, no mp3 players, no internet and no cell phones. If you wanted to hear music you picked up a fiddle or a guitar and played it for yourself or you talked someone into doing it for you. In 1851 books were very expensive. If you bought a book to read for pleasure there’d better be a lot in it for your Yankee dollar. Melville knew his audience and he knew he needed to add a lot of stuff to his plain sea tale to make it interesting to his readers This book was written for the average reader of the mid-19th century. Here we are now in the early 21st century and Melville is competing with anime, Disney, Spielberg and millions of blogs. If he were publishing this book today he would have written the book for us 21st century people and wouldn’t have included a 3000 word essay on “The Whiteness of The Whale” plopped down into the middle of a great and gripping story about monumental evil and passionate revenge. So here is Moby Dick for the 21st Century. All the long boring parts demanded by our ancestors have been deleted while preserving the story that still entertains after more than 150 years. $10.99 at Amazon.com |
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