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Book #80 was A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett. The back of the book reads: Sentenced to a life of misery in the Scottish coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: beautiful high-born Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. In 1766, from the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship
Read moreBook #80 was The Killing Game, the second book in Iris Johansen’s Eve Duncan series. The back of the book reads: A merciless killer on the hunt…an innocent child in his sights…a woman driven to the edge to stop him… The killer knows Eve Duncan all too well. He knows the pain she feels for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body has never been found.
Read moreBook #74 was Love and War, the second book in John Jakes’ North and South Trilogy. The back of the book reads: The Hazards and the Mains — the first fatal shot fired at Fort Sumter divided them irrevocably with loyalties more powerful than family ties. The young would clash on the bloody battlefields of Bull Run and Fredericksburg, while in intrigue-ridden Washington and Richmond
Read moreBook #73 was Something from the Nightside, the first book in Simon R. Green’s Nightside series. The back of the book reads: John Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That’s why he’s been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space
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