Summer of '69
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Follow New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand back in time and join a Nantucket family...
Somewhere Between Light and Time
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Have you ever met a stranger and felt that you already knew them? The story begins in the 1800s...
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Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global
Jean Harvey, John Horne, Parissa Safai and Simon Darnell
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From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional...
The European Union as an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Maria Fletcher, Ester Herlin-Karnell and Claudio Matera
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This book presents a collection of essays on key topics and new perspectives on the EU's Area of...
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
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Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows,...
The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s
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In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure...
Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits-and Won
Marc Solomon and Deval Patrick
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Ten years ago no state allowed same-sex couples to marry, support for gay marriage nationwide...
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
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In "The Power of Habit", award-winning "New York Times" business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to...
I'd heard, and even knew a bit, about the former. The latter? Sad to say, not so much.
So, for my part, a little new knowledge is a good thing!
As the novel begins, Jack Lark is back in England after his exploits in America (during the Civil War) and Mexico of the previous entries; back where - I feel - he belongs (ummm, speaking internationally, that is, rather than his precise circumstances!) and running Victorian slumming 'tours' (for want of a better word) for the rich who have more money than sense!
I don't *think* I'm giving anything away when I say that one such tour inevitably goes wrong, leading Jack - and a few companions - to flee the country, travelling to Ethiopia to join the expedition against the Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, more concerned with what they can purloin along the way than the rights and wrongs of the situation that led to the campaign in the first place!
All in all, another solid entry in the series: I'm looking forward to where Jack ends up next!
The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster: A Revealing Portrait of the Forgotten Man Behind Swanee River, Beautiful Dreamer, and My Old Kentucky Home
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The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and...