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Syria from Reform to Revolt: Culture, Society, and Religion

Christa Salamandra and Leif Stenberg

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As Syria's anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the...

The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane: A Novel

Colin Falconer

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When fiery and idealistic Kitty O’Kane escapes the crushing poverty of Dublin’s tenements,...

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A God in Ruins

Kate Atkinson

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WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD. A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet,...

The Dark Circle

Linda Grant

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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 'Extraordinarily affecting' Alex Preston,...

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Apr 16, 2021

Sneak a peak at THE TAKEAWAY MEN, a historical fiction novel, by Meryl Ain on my blog! I must say that this book looks very interesting!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2021/04/book-blitz-takeaway-men-by-meryl-ain.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War.

Years later, the discovery of a former Nazi hiding in their community brings the Holocaust out of the shadows. As the girls get older, they start to wonder about their parents’ pasts, and they begin to demand answers. But it soon becomes clear that those memories will be more difficult and painful to uncover than they could have anticipated.

Poignant and haunting, The Takeaway Men explores the impact of immigration, identity, prejudice, secrets, and lies on parents and children in mid-twentieth-century America.