Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín: Review

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Author: Colm Tóibín Publisher: Scribner Release Date: May 5, 2009 Genre: Historical Fiction Goodreads | Amazon Synopsis “One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving …

The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs: Review

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Author: Elizabeth Cobbs Publisher: Arcade Release Date: August 2, 2016 Genre: Historical Fiction Goodreads | Amazon Synopsis Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of iconic characters such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from tremulous beginning to bittersweet …