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LOVE OF FINISHED YEARS -Gregory Erich Phillips - Book Spotlight

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LOVE OF FINISHED YEARS Award-winning author Gregory Erich Phillips Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction Publisher: SillanPaceBrown Publication Date: January 3, 2018 An Immigrant Girl's Powerful Journey of Aspiration and Love in Early Twentieth Century New York Pre World War One, Elsa came to America with her eyes wide open, realizing it was up to her to make a life for herself. Surviving a sweat shop in lower Manhattan, a chance job with a Long Island elite family opens up her world. Invited in up to a point, she unwittingly, albeit precariously, crosses the social divide with her now open heart, which puts all she had worked for in jeopardy. Add to Goodreads Grand Prize Winner Chanticleer International Book Awards and Chaucer Historical Fiction Book Awards A wonderfully satisfying reads. - Chanticleer Reviews "What a truly wonderful story! I've read it three times, and with each reading I find myself caring about the fabulous charac...

Review: Betrayed - Lisa Scottoline

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    Review: Betrayed - Book #2 Rosato and DiNunzio Series - Lisa Scottoline - November 2014 One of the few female mystery/law writers that I have come to love over the years is Lisa Scottoline. She has written a couple of stand-alones, but most of her books fall into the Rosato and Associates series. You would have noticed though that on her second to latest book "Accused" that the series changed to Rosato and DiNunzio. This is because Mary DiNunzio has finally made partner in the lawyer firm. In Betrayed, this book focuses on one of the employees Judy whose life seems to be unravelling in front of her and she is left wondering who she is and what she is really doing. Now that her friend Mary has made partner, she knows that things are going to change and that Mary will have to take Bernie's side more often as it becomes a game of lawyer office politics. Though, she didn't expect it to happen this quickly when she is dumped with seventy plus cases of dam...