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Yorkshire, it has been said, is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast,...
The WDW Radio Show - Your Walt Disney World Information Station
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Join author, speaker and Disney expert Lou Mongello on this award-winning Disney podcast for Walt...
A Woven Silence: Memory, History and Remembrance
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Killing The Mob
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
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Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organised crime in the...
Pictures of Perfection (Dalziel & Pascoe #14)
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Reginald Hill's ironic humor, polished prose, and keen insight have placed him squarely alongside...
Traveller-Inceptio ( Traveller Book 1)
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If you were sent 1000 years into the past, would you survive? Traveller Inceptio describes how...
Violeta tells the story of a woman’s life over 100 years. It starts during the Spanish flu and it’s terrible repercussions, and goes on through both tumultuous political times and Violeta’s own turbulent past - her life and her country’s history pretty much mirroring one another.
I felt consumed by this story and I’d come up for air, wondering why on Earth I hadn’t heard of Allende before A Long Petal?!
This, I believe, is the history of Chile and there are a fair few autobiographical bits of Allende’s own life thrown in for good measure. What a life the fictional Violeta and her family experience - and what a force Violeta is. She needs to be as well.
I can’t believe that 100 years could be fit into such a relatively short book without it feeling rushed.
It really is a wonderful read.