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Wishing for Snow Minrose Gwin Harper Perennial 240 pages Minrose Gwin had quite the childhood. Her father and mother divorced when she was very young, so she had no recollection of her father, and her...
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Book Review: The Wordy Shipmates
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Book Review: 101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic . . . But Didn’t!
101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic . . . But Didn’t! Tim Maltin, with Eloise Aston Penguin 320 pages I’ll admit, I have a morbid fascination with the Titanic. The opulence and high...
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Book Review: Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour
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