It’s mystery master Cara Black’s first standalone novel, a spy story set during World War II in Occupied Paris. Three Hours in Paris isn’t just any old formulaic ‘Get out!’ tale. less …Ī Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2020Ī Washington Post Best Thriller and Mystery Book of 2020 When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.Ĭara Black, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this gripping story about one young woman with the temerity-and drive-to take on Hitler himself. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations reimagines history in her masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller, Three Hours in Paris. In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light-abruptly leaving, never to return.
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I was disappointed in the somewhat flat portrayal of Elizabeth Schuyler. We’ve all learned about the great revolutionary forefathers at some point, but Alexander Hamilton came alive for me in this book, as a flawed, yet likable and honorable, man. However, this was a quick read that I enjoyed more than I expected. I generally am not a fan of historical novels, especially American ones. With its flawless writing, brilliantly drawn characters, and epic scope, The Hamilton Affair will take its place among the greatest novels of American history. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of iconic characters such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from tremulous beginning to bittersweet ending-his at a dueling ground on the shores of the Hudson River, hers more than half a century later after a brave, successful life. "It pained me how pleasureless it could only have been to binge on wheatgerm," she observes. But as his visit gradually extends from weeks into months, a dismayed Pandora watches him eat his way through almost everything in sight. Into this already faintly precarious family dynamic comes Pandora's older brother Edison, a once hip and sexy jazz musician who, to Pandora's "dizzying sorrow" (especially when she fails to recognise him at the airport) now weighs in at 386lb.Įdison is between gigs. "Consumed with control", he rides his bicycle for hours each day and follows a diet so "stringent" that simply being "in his physical presence" makes Pandora feel "chided". Pandora's husband, Fletcher, meanwhile is a maker of "high-end custom furniture" that no one wants to buy. (It's a real tribute to Shriver's wit and imagination that not only are the details of the hilariously brilliant "Baby Monotonous" convincing, but you feel she should rush to patent it before someone else does.) Pandora, the 40-year-old stepmother of two teenagers, runs an "offbeat" novelty doll business that has gone "viral" and made her rich and a bit famous. Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift FINISHED The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne FINISHEDĭr. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne ON OVERDRIVE So far, I've read of the 68 of the 100, but don't know if I will ever read them all. Here is the list, with notes about whether I've read a book, it is on my TBR shelf, or it is available as an audiobook from my library. They are also all available elsewhere in other formats and editions. The list is no longer on the Easton Press website and it no longer sells the books as a set, although they are available individually. THE EASTON PRESS LIST OF 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVERĪ while back, Easton Pres put together its list of the 100 Greatest Books Ever and described the collection as the "most renowned works of literature by history’s greatest authors." It was an interesting mix that includes books going back to ancient times, from around the world, and includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.Įaston Press used to sell the whole set in its fancy, leather-bound editions. In his new book, Nick takes a humorous, inspiring, and elucidating trip to America's trails, farms, and frontier to examine the people who inhabit the land, what that has meant to them and us, and to the land itself, both historically and currently. Nick Offerman has always felt a particular affection for the Land of the Free-not just for the people and their purported ideals but to the actual land the bedrock, the topsoil, and everything in between that generates the health of your local watershed. A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author Nick Offerman |