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Donna Tarttโs debut novel โThe Secret Historyโ was first published thirty years ago, but itโs one of those books that age really well. In terms of genre, it's been described as a campus novel, but don't mistake it for a piece of YA fiction set in a college; nor is it, in spite of the …
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John Grishamโs first novel, A Time to Kill, was set in the small town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi: population of 10,000 but โenough conflict to support fifty-one lawyers.โ That 1989 book has since been followed by dozens of titles that have earned him the reputation of a master of legal thriller. In Ford …
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Reading poetry can be a challenging task, and itโs understandable why most language learners never even think about incorporating it into their reading and learning habits. But, daunting as it may seem at first, reading poetry is exactly what I would encourage you to do.ย
A young woman is brutally attacked in her rural Indiana home and almost left for dead. Her memory is patchy, evidence inconclusive, yet in court she insists that it was her extremely jealous husband who did the deed; of that she is absolutely certain. On the basis of her testimony, he gets convicted and ends …
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