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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
Dugard, Martin
An engrossing account of the journey that Henry Morgan Stanley undertakes to locate the missing British explorer, David Livingstone. The African landscape is vividly portrayed, along with fascinating but often gruesome details of the amazing hardships and violence encountered along the way, including tribal conflicts and the slave trade. While providing well-researched historical context, the book is essentially a suspense story and a great adventure.
[Adult Nonfiction Book ]
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Snobs
Fellowes, Julian
For Anglophiles: A contemporary comedy of manners by the screenwriter of "Gosford Park." Edith Lavery, a social-climbing Londoner pushing thirty, manages to marry Charles, Earl Broughton, aristocratic and rich but boring. When a handsome actor appears, is she willing to trade status and wealth for romance and excitement? An amusing satire of class and snobbery in Britain.
[Adult Fiction Book FELLOWES]
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A Changed Man
Prose, Francine
Vincent, a homeless neo-Nazi, walks into the office of a human rights foundation run by a famous Holocaust survivor, claiming to have undergone a life change and wanting to help keep "guys like him from turning into guys like him." Bonnie, the foundation's fund-raiser, agrees to let him stay with her and her two teenage sons. The novel explores transformations of all kinds in the lives of Vincent, Bonnie, and her son, Danny. The premise seems strange and there are dark moments, but the story is lighter than it sounds and the characters are engaging.
[Adult Fiction Book PROSE]
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