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Northshire Bookstore ReviewReviewed By... Karen FrankA great feast of a novel based on facts (and rumors) about Auguste Escoffier. Romantic and detailed, the story follows the great chef who changed the course of culinary history, as he cooked and schemed his way through a tempestuous Europe between the two World Wars. Larger than life famous characters, who sparkled and flared at the time, provide a wonderful amuse bouche and champagne bubbles for the mi... read more>>>
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Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Karen Frank
Literature is full of orphans and atmosphere and Livesey makes great use of both in this absorbing story of a young woman in 1960's Scotland who strives to define her true self and find her path in a life fraught with peril. A great book for curling up and indulging in a bit of intelligent romance.
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Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Karen Frank
The brilliant atmosphere of 1930's New York City is the powerful setting for this grand story. Great original characters, each with their own agenda, weave and bob through the neighborhoods of Manhattan and through intricate and intertwining relationships. The result is a splendid, smart and intensely satisfying read.
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Northshire Bookstore ReviewReviewed By... Karen FrankA wonderfully important book which may help the human race survive and thrive. Clear and readable, combining emerging science and sociological perspective as well as deep empathy and intelligence, Cain has done a superb job of making us think. Readers will recognize behaviors at both ends of the introvert/extrovert personality spectrum and everything in between and feel empowered to find their own comfort leve... read more>>>
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Karen Frank
“ For to know nothing is nothing, not to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”from Samuel Beckett's Molloy
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