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Mel Anderson rated Before Lunch: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated Four Hundred Souls: 4 stars
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans …
Mel Anderson rated Doomsday Book: 5 stars
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning …
To say nothing of the dog, or, How we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis
Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's [Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)][1]. …
Mel Anderson rated The crocodile bird: 5 stars
The crocodile bird by Ruth Rendell
Few people under the age of seventeen have read the whole of Virgil in Latin and witnessed two murders. But …
Mel Anderson rated The Silk Roads: A New History of the World: 4 stars
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered …
Mel Anderson rated German Genius: 5 stars
Mel Anderson rated Daughters of the Winter Queen: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated The din in the head: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated Scout, Atticus, and Boo: 3 stars
Scout, Atticus, and Boo by Mary McDonagh Murphy
"In celebration of the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird (June 8, 2010), an American classic that sells almost …
Mel Anderson rated The Lost Tudor Princess: 3 stars
Mel Anderson rated Buddenbrooks, the decline of a family: 5 stars
Mel Anderson rated Jurgen a Comedy of Justice Annotated: 4 stars
Jurgen a Comedy of Justice Annotated by James Branch Cabell, James Cabell
"Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice," an entry in the Poictesme series, is an epic fantasy voyage as well as an …