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Archive for November, 2009

20 Nov, 2009

Review: A Beautiful Place to Die

Posted by: Susan In: Adult Lit

Bibliography:  Nunn, Malla.  (2009).  A Beautiful Place to Die. New York: Atria Books ISBN: 978-1416586203
Plot Summary:  In the early 1950s South Africa where new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, Detective Sargeant Emmanuel Cooper is called to the small town of Jacob’s Rest when white Afrikaner police captain from a prominent family is found [...]

11 Nov, 2009

Review: The Hunchback Assignments

Posted by: Susan In: Teen Lit

Bibliography: Slade, Arthur. (September 2009).  The Hunchback Assignments.  New York:  Random House Children’s Books.  ISBN: 9780385737845
Plot Summary:  Mr. Socrates rescued Modo from traveling freak show when he was just a baby.  He recognized his special morphological skill, and had him trained as an agent for his secret society in Victorian London.  Together with another teen [...]


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