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Lance’s 2022 Year in Books
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Lance Charnes
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Doha 12
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2012
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6 editions
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The Collection (The DeWitt Agency Files, #1)
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2016
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6 editions
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Engaño (DeWitt Agency Adventures, #2)
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2021
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3 editions
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Chasing Clay (The DeWitt Agency Files, #3)
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2019
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5 editions
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South
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2013
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6 editions
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Stealing Ghosts (The DeWitt Agency Files, #2)
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2017
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6 editions
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Zrada (DeWitt Agency Adventures, #1)
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2020
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6 editions
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Read the first five chapters of DOHA 12 free
“Doha 12 is an exciting and hard-to-put-down read of fiction, not to be overlooked.” — Midwest Book Review Small Press Bookwatch
Jake Eldar’s and Miriam Schaffer’s names may kill them.
Jake manages a bookstore in Brooklyn. Miriam is a secretary at a Philadelphia law firm. Both grew up in Israel and emigrated to build new lives in America. Neither knows the other exists…until the Israeli intelligence Read more of this blog post »
Jake Eldar’s and Miriam Schaffer’s names may kill them.
Jake manages a bookstore in Brooklyn. Miriam is a secretary at a Philadelphia law firm. Both grew up in Israel and emigrated to build new lives in America. Neither knows the other exists…until the Israeli intelligence Read more of this blog post »
Lance’s Recent Updates
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Barbara wrote: "If it's reminiscent of Wodehouse it must be very funny. 😀"
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Wigs on the Green
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Maureen wrote: "I understand totally going back and forth on the ratings, I might be skipping the latest Crawford book. So, terrific review!"
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| This book is actually a bound version of a declassified end-of-war internal review of MI5's operations inside the new Irish Republic between ~1938 and 1945, written by Cecil Liddell, chief of the agency's Irish Section. While it's better written than ...more | |
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| Imagine it's the late 1970s. You're out with Grandmum for tea after a film at the Odeum. It was a film set during the Second World War -- handsome men in British khaki, pretty women in hats and gloves -- and Grandmum got a bit misty at times. So you, ...more | |
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This book exists for its dozens of archival photographs taken in and around Chippenham in north Wiltshire between 1870 and ~1925. Each is captioned to identify the subject and to provide a thumbnail history of the subject or area. Why three stars? -- T ...more |
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| This exceedingly specialized book covers the activities of the Volunteer Aid Detachments in and around northern Wiltshire before and during WWI, focusing largely on the recuperation hospital the local VAD set up in Chippenham's Town Hall. It's a smal ...more | |
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“The little brain still wants a rematch with her. The big brain knows I’d have to sleep with one eye open and my back against a wall.”
― Stealing Ghosts
― Stealing Ghosts
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“Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops. ”
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