books
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Anyone else love a good ole wine country detective mystery set in the Loire Valley? Because if you do, you’re in luck! Foul Play in Vouvray may just be the beach read you need this summer (if we are allowed to even go to the beach). My old boss back in D.C. sent me a…
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I hope I’m not offending a dead author here, but I struggled a bit through The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway. Not that the writing is hard–Hemingway is known for his simplicity — but the style is all his. Though I’ve tried, I haven’t fully been able to enjoy it in any of the…
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Every traveler has a trip in his or her life that has somehow changed them for the better, or at least made their life more colorful or exciting.
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“They had put the president’s health, well being and safety in my hands, under their threat to me. How had they put it? ‘We entrust the sacred life of Mr. Lincoln to your keeping. If you don’t protect it, never return to Illinois, or we will murder you on sight.’ I didn’t drop my guard…


