#TuesdayBookBlog Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement by Frederick Reynolds Packed with local data and insights, this memoir pulls no punches

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Hi all: I bring you one of the books from Rosie’s Book Review Team list, a non-fiction one this time, and it is a police memoir with a difference. Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement by Frederick Reynolds  From shootouts and robberies to riding in cars with
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#TuesdayBookBlog NO SECRET TOO SMALL. A Novel of Old New Mexico by Loretta Miles Tollefson. New Mexico historical fiction that confronts some painful truths #historicalfiction

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Hi all: I bring you a new book by an author I read last year for the first time. Recommended to readers of historical fiction. No Secret Too Small. A Novel of Old New Mexico by Loretta Miles Tollefson A novel dedicated to all the world’s children caught in the cross fire of adult squabbles.
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#Bookreview A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry (@FaberBooks). Sometimes it’s hard to be a Lakota woman

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Hi all: I hope you’re keeping well, or as well as possible in the circumstances. I bring you another book by Sebastian Barry. Not for everyone, but quite extraordinary. A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster
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#TuesdayBookBlog The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead by Colson Whitehead (@LittleBrownUK). Inspiring, tough, appalling. A must read.

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Hi all: I bring you today the review of a book by an author who’s become well-known but I hadn’t managed to catch up with yet. I’m happy I have now. Extraordinary. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead by Colson Whitehead Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through
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#TuesdayBookBlog WINTER FLOWER by Charles Sheehan-Miles #RBRT A highly recommended tough and inspiring read

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Hi all: I bring you another review of one of the books in Rosie’s team. Another great find. Winter Flower by Charles Sheehan-Miles This book is all about love, family, survival, acceptance and forgiveness… one big giant emotional rollercoaster ride Book Freak From the bestselling author of Just Remember to Breathe and The Last Hour,
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#Bookreview DARKTOWN by Thomas Mullen (@Mullenwrites) A historical time so far and yet so close to ours. And a great yarn.

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Hi all: As I’ve been telling you, September is read non-stop month for me, and today I bring you a great story set in a fascinating historical period and location that will be available today (13th September 2016). And it seems it’s going to become a TV series, so, you heard it here first! I
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2 Brand new books and #bookreviews. WEAR AND TEAR by Tracy Tynan (@tynanthreads) and UNDERGROUND AIRLINES by Ben H. Winters (@BenHWinters) Very different but they’ll make you think.

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Hi all: As you know I’ve been sharing new books and reviews recently. These two have just been published this week (the first one only available in hard cover at first) and I thought they might appeal to very different readers, but I enjoyed them  both (in very different ways). First: Wear and Tear: The
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