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Book Review: Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and Behind the Camera
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Book Review: Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and Behind the Camera

Man of la BookDecember 3, 2018

A memoir of the prolific actor and director. Mr. Duke has been in many pop-culture classics, he is also a director, producer and entrepreneur.

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Book Review: The Passion According to Carmela by Marcos Aguinis
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Book Review: The Passion According to Carmela by Marcos Aguinis

Man of la BookNovember 28, 2018

Carmela Vasconcelos, an divorcee, gets caught up in the of the Cuban Revolution, joins Lucas, her brother, as they run away from their parents to join Castro.

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Book Review: 20 Years in the Secret Service by Rufus W. Youngblood
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Book Review: 20 Years in the Secret Service by Rufus W. Youngblood

Man of la BookNovember 26, 2018

A memoir spanning the author’s career. The book has been published in 1974, this is a re-release which includes photographs from Mr. Youngblood’s collection.

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Book Review: The General’s Cook by Ramin Ganeshram
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Book Review: The General’s Cook by Ramin Ganeshram

Man of la BookNovember 19, 2018

A historical fiction book taking place in 1793, following the life of Hercules, a slave in Mt. Vernon, as well as President George Washington’s chef.

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Book Review:  The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II by Winston Groom
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Book Review: The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II by Winston Groom

Man of la BookNovember 15, 2018

The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II – recounts how Russia became and unlikely ally with the US & England

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Cook Book Review: Tasting Italy: A Culinary Journey by America’s Test Kitchen, Eugenia Bone and Julia Della Croce
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Cook Book Review: Tasting Italy: A Culinary Journey by America’s Test Kitchen, Eugenia Bone and Julia Della Croce

Man of la BookNovember 14, 2018

Tasting Italy: A Culinary Journey by America’s Test Kitchen, Eugenia Bone and Julia Della Croce is a cookbook which has recipes from certain regions of Italy.

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Book Review: Family Trust by Kathy Wang
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Book Review: Family Trust by Kathy Wang

Man of la BookNovember 9, 2018

Stanley Huang has claimed for years that he is very rich. Now that Stanley Huanghas pancreatic cancer his family wants details of his fortune to be revealed.

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Book Review: Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli
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Book Review: Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli

Man of la BookNovember 7, 2018

Four Soldiers is a short novel about members of the Russian Army fighting the Civil War in 1919. Mr. Mingarelli won the Prix Medici prize in 2003 for this novel

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Book Review: Operation Columba – The Secret Pigeon Service by Gordon Corera
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Book Review: Operation Columba – The Secret Pigeon Service by Gordon Corera

Man of la BookOctober 31, 2018

I never thought I’d enjoy a book about pigeons. A thrilling book about an oddball corner of history including brave citizens, and creative intelligence officers

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Book Review: Titans of History by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Book Review: Titans of History by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Man of la BookOctober 24, 2018

A nonfiction book of extremely short biographies of those people the author deemed as changing the world they lived in. Mr. Montefiore is a prize winning author

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