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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the
World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin
Wallace, Broadway Books, 2009 - Reviewed by Paul Hanson
In 1985 a bottle of 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux was put up for
auction by Christie's of London and sold for, well, quite a
lot-much more than you or I will ever pay for a bottle of
wine. What was so special about this bottle? According
to the auction catalog, it had first been purchased by Thomas
Jefferson, when he lived in France, but never shipped to the United
States. .
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The Killer Angels by Michael Schaara,
Ballantine Books, 1996 - Reviewed by Richard McGowan
After reading The Killer Angels, I made it my business
to visit the beautiful and moving monument for Congressional Medal
of Honor winners. I had to read the name "Joshua Lawrence
Chamberlain," one of the most accomplished Americans to have ever
lived.
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Kelly of the Foreign Legion: Letters of
Légionnaire Russell A.
Kelly by Michael Kennerly,General Books, 1917 -
Reviewed by Jon Porter
On November 3, 1914, Russell Kelly and his friend Lawrence
Scanlan sailed from New York to Bordeaux aboard a Canadian tramp
steamer laden with 650 horses destined for the French army. Kelly
and Scanlan were destined for the French Foreign Legion and this is
a collection of Kelly's letters home to his family, many of which
were published in a New York newspaper.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta
Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, Crown, 2010 - Reviewed
by Paula Saffire
This book is the perfect mating of biography and science.
It is a tale woven of many strands, told by a master story
teller. You come to the death of Henrietta Lacks one
third of the way through and wonder, . . .
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The Attic Express and Other Macabre
Stories by Alex Hamilton, Ashtree Press, 2007 -
Reviewed by George Geib
Alex Hamilton is one of Britain's foremost authors of stories of
dark fiction. This volume brings together two of his earlier
anthologies plus three more recent pieces. All share his
macabre outlook, placing characters at the gruesome boundaries
between the routine and the fantastic.
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