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sarahsar

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April
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May 2016
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Escaping from slavery was a daunting proposition. The escaped slave would have to leave a plantation without alerting oversee...
The Underground Railroad: A Novel - Colson Whitehead
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April 2016
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I can't remember just which one of my "friends" pointed me towards Amazon's Trump porn but when I do remember I will exact re...
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It’s been a while since I read this so I went back to my notes and finally had to stop. The book just wasn’t worth all that m...
February 2016
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The Strangled Queen is the second volume in Maurice Druon's The Cursed Kings series, which is about the fall of the house of ...
February 2016
15
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On April 14, 1865, in the waning days of the Civil War, 26-year-old actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln in...
Hanging Mary: A Novel - Susan Higginbotham
November 2015
29
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The Borgias are one of history’s most notorious families. Rodrigo Borgia, eventually the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, was the p...
The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia - C.W. Gortner
October 2015
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I didn’t know much about the 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr before I read this double biography, but tha...
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Cross-posted on my blog The Bluestocking Literary Society. Hangsaman was Jackson’s second novel, after The Road through the...
September 2015
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September 2015
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I dithered between 3.5 and 4 stars on this one. Susan Doran examines all of Elizabeth I's personal relationships, through t...
September 2015
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My copy courtesy of Penguin and NetGalley - much thanks. I have not read Deanna Raybourn previously, but many of my friends...
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Murder as a Fine Art, set in 1854 London, features at its center Thomas De Quincey, "The Opium-Eater," the author of the firs...