I recently found myself reading I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys. It’s a young adult historical novel about life in communist Romania as well as the revolution that upended it.
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history
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, by John Hendrix, is a hybrid graphic novel for
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heirlooms
Thomas Hough, an enterprising young man, was born in 1844 into a lower-class family in Yorkshire, England, and didn’t like
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This is about Granny Jennie’s mother Mary Jane, who dominated the Illinois prairie around her in the late 1800s but
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heirlooms
My Granny Jennie, born in 1885, hand-painted this pitcher in an art class in college. She had a college degree,
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heirlooms
I am sorting stuff from the attic and basement. I ran across my grandfather’s precision surveying instrument. Later on I
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