Historical Fiction

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"the portrait of an artist as a young woman."

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Born and raised in poverty on a plantation in Martinique, Stephanie St. Clair (Queenie) eventually arrives in New York. In the 1930s; she makes a name for herself as a racketeer and bootlegger.

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“In many ways, Gehrmann achieves what Upton Sinclair never quite did: She makes the characters real and complex, and she makes the political story a movingly human one.”

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“A riveting story of a horrible injustice enacted with careful, logical cruelty in the name of national security.

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This is a graphic novel with a difference.

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Vietnamese Memories by Clement Baloup starts as a series of memories of the Vietnam War, different men, now living in France, telling how they left Saigon at the end of the war.

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"an engaging idea that does not quite achieve its aim . . ."

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“. . . opens up the world of heroes to everyone . . .”