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Book Review: The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
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Book Review: The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

Man of la BookMay 29, 2023

Ms. Allende focuses on children, and how policies of cruelty use them as pawns. Only the fact that good people have attempted to help them save those children

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Fun Facts Friday: Joy Adamson
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Fun Facts Friday: Joy Adamson

Man of la BookJanuary 20, 2023

Joy Adamson was an author, painter, and naturalist who is known for her book Born Free which chronicles her experiences raising Elsa the lioness

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Book Review: All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer
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Book Review: All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer

Man of la BookNovember 10, 2021

A terrorist group took over a 100 hostages in Vienna. The rescue attempt went horribly wrong. CIA Vienna branch believes the inside breach was in their office.

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Book Review: 1000 Perfect Weekends
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Book Review: 1000 Perfect Weekends

Man of la BookNovember 8, 2021

1,000 Perfect Weekends: Great Getaways Around the Globe is another addition in the National Geographic Society books to inspire and educate.

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Fun Facts Friday: Nikolaus Lenau
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Fun Facts Friday: Nikolaus Lenau

Man of la BookAugust 13, 2021

Nikolaus Lenau (13 August, 1802 – 22 August, 185) was an Austrian poet who was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, which is now Lenauheim, Banat

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Book Review: I Belong to Vienna by Anna Goldenberg
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Book Review: I Belong to Vienna by Anna Goldenberg

Man of la BookJune 22, 2020

The book is certainly worth reading, we should not be losing this kind of history, and future generations of the author’s family will have something that many others wish they did.

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Book Review: Great Battles for Boys: Ancients to Middle Ages (Great Battles for Boys #1) by Joe Giorello
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Book Review: Great Battles for Boys: Ancients to Middle Ages (Great Battles for Boys #1) by Joe Giorello

Man of la BookAugust 19, 2019

Great Battles is an easy read, chapters are a concise introduction and highlight the interesting parts of each battle without bogging down with too many details

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Fun Facts Friday: Frederic Morton
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Fun Facts Friday: Frederic Morton

Man of la BookOctober 5, 2018

Frederic Morton (5 October, 1924 – 20 April, 2015) was an award winning American writer who was born as Fritz Mandelbaum in Vienna, Austria

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Book Review: Wolf Hunt by Armand Cabasson

Man of la BookMay 13, 2014

Wolf Hunt: The Napoleonic Murders by Armand Cabasson takes place during the Napoleonic wars while the Austrians and the French battle over some small villages by the Danube. The mystery takes second place to the author’s impressive research of the time, whether it would be battlefield tactics or a Viennese ball.

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Book Review: Brenner and God by Wolf Haas

Man of la BookJuly 25, 2012

Article first published as Book Review: Brenner and God by Wolf Haas on Blogcritics. About: Brenner and God by Wolf Haas is a detective novel taking place in Germany.Mr. Haas, a popular author in Germany, has recently had his first translated work […]

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