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Browsing Posts published in November, 2009

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 [...]

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 [...]