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Second Life of Mirielle West, The

Leprosy and Second Chances Author: Amanda Skenandore Mirielle leads a dissipated life, despite the luxury of being married to a Hollywood star and living in extravagance. She drinks to forget, to forget the toddler she recently lost, to cloud the memories and silence the nagging blame. Life, as bad as it is for her, is about to get a lot worse. A routine doctor’s visit for a small, white spot on her hand changes everything. Overnight, Mirielle is locked in a Spartan hospital room, then ferried on a dirty train car to a remote part of Louisiana where Carville, America’s only [...]

2023-03-11T12:35:36-07:00March 11th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

Alienist, The

To Catch a Predator Author: Caleb Carr It is 1896, New York, a world teaming with opulence and severe oppression. The seedy underbelly of society is thriving: brothels are teaming, criminal organizations and crime lords run rampant, immigrants live in sordid tenements, and everything that seems innocent is underpinned by the money and political influence of the malevolent. Worse yet, a sadistic killer is on the loose, a man who targets young boys working out of brothels and leaves them carved open, mutilated and abused. He has struck before, and he will strike again. But these are forgotten boys; they come [...]

2022-07-31T19:15:02-07:00July 31st, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

Through a Glass Darkly

Sordid, Bleak, Depressing.  Welcome to the 18th Century. Author: Karleen Koen In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit to having little experience of the subgenre of historical fiction into which Through a Glass Darkly fits.  Set in the early 18th century England and France, this 700+ page romance tome is quite the eye opener about the time period.  I don’t really mean that as a compliment. Through a Glass Darkly tells us the tale of Barbara Alderley.  Barbara is fifteen years old and a member of a privileged, noble family.  Living on the country estate of Tamworth, [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:01-07:00July 22nd, 2012|Tags: , , , |
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