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Amanda is Currently Reading

Amanda is currently reading

The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era

by Gareth Russell (Goodreads Author)

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The Imperialists

by Sara Fraser

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The Confessions of Catherine de Medici

by C.W. Gortner (Goodreads Author)

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Amanda’s Notes & Highlights

Gallipoli Street by Mary-Anne O'Connor

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The memories crowded in of legs, arms, faces strewn across in a bloody pile as they ran the last few yards to make it back. Bodies housing men no longer. Mates. He thought of the mothers and sweethearts, fathers, babies, grandparents and ...more

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