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The Mystery of Agatha Christie
Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie One historical event, two points of view.   Marie Benedict’s novel, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, demonstrates for the reader

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Rose Garden

When I was young, and just learning to appreciate the worlds where fiction could transport me, I found myself enchanted by the novels of Daphne

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

A Race to Splender

A Race to Splendor Historical romances tend to follow a predictable formula. Set at some crucial moment in the past, the story centers on a

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Blackout
Fiction
Ann Ronald

Blackout

BLACKOUT You probably shouldn’t read (as I did) Marc Elsberg’s thriller, Blackout, while cable news is concentrating on the catastrophic outcomes of a spreading coronavirus.

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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Book Club
TJ Rutkowski

FEBRUARY

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Richardson; Monday, February 8, 2021; 7:00 p.m.; Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88378726420

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The Engineer's Wife
Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Engineer’s Wife

The Engineer’s Wife, a novel of the Brooklyn Bridge. A 21st -century novel about a late 19th and early 20th-century brilliant wife. I’m beginning to

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The Arctic Fury
Reviews
Ann Ronald

The Arctic Fury

The Arctic Fury – Greer Macallister’s historical novel calls for a willing suspension of disbelief, historical fiction at its best. Greer Macallister based her novel,

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Carnegie's Maid
Reviews
Ann Ronald

Carnegie’s Maid

Carnegie’s Maid – Marie Benedict’s insightful and creative imagining of a non-factual character in a thoroughly factual historical fiction. In her conversational comments at the

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The Last Mona Lisa
Art
Ann Ronald

The Last Mona Lisa

The Last Mona Lisa, Jonathan Santlofer’s retelling of the August 21, 1911, theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louve, is ingenious. Art theft, forgery,

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