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The Year of Reading Women: A.S. Byatt

Post author By Karo
Post date Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
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The year is almost over, and how many books written by women did we all read?

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Book Review: The Kat Vespucci series

Post author By Claire S. Gould
Post date Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
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Unlike most fictional stories about an American’s experience abroad, the heroine of the Kat Vespucci series by Ingrid Anders doesn’t seek to “find herself” in other countries or to “save” the natives. Rather, wide-eyed, curious Kat is thrown blindly into new experiences with little or no previous knowledge that could distort her observation of history […]

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