Poetry of Reading

════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Synopsis: Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town would be destroyed. Some of its citizens died in the chaos, some escaped the mountain's wrath . . ....

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✬✬✬✬✬ Synopsis: A dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald.  When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama....

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✬✬✬✬✬ Synopsis: It is the winter of 1154 and Eleanor, Queen of England, is biding her time. While her husband King Henry II battles for land across the channel, Eleanor fulfils her duty as acting ruler and bearer of royal children. But she wants to be more than this - if only Henry...

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2013 ✬✬✬✬ This book offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Dominican immigrants in the US, and the lives of their parents and grandparents in the Dominican Republic under the tyrannical rule of Trujillo. It’s a somewhat modern coming of age story mixed with historical fiction, and the author does a nice...

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