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A fictional biography of Mary. It is at times interesting and the ending is powerful. However, it covers so much ground that it drags at times as well.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-unafraid-by-francine-rivers.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Madame Curie
Madame Curie
Eve Curie | 2007
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"When I was 10, my mother gave me Eve Curie’s biography of her mother, and Marie Curie’s story became for me the epitome of a life in science: its dedication, its delights, and its frustrations and travails. I still have my original copy— now autographed by the author."

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
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"Here’s a novel of intimate emotion and historical sweep. It tells the twin stories of an Australian doctor’s melancholy love affair and his appalling experience as a war prisoner building the Burma Railway. Most potently, Flanagan makes use of his own father’s real-life biography in telling his story."

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