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		<title>The Poisoner&#8217;s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover: “Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner&#8217;s Handbook Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be by Daniel Loxton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover: “Evolution is the process that created the terrible teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex and the complex human brain, clever enough to understand the workings of nature. Young readers will learn how a British naturalist named Charles Darwin studied nature and developed his now-famous concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover: “In the Third Part Shakespeare extends his essay on monarchical politics by contrasting two kings, the good but ineffective Henry VI with his rival, the sensual and victorious Edward IV. He also offers more evidence of the perils of aristocratic factionalism in a series of scenes that display the grievous wounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover: “A complex exploration of a corrupt, moneyed society, and Timon himself as a rich and philanthropic nobleman who is forced to recognize the inherent destructiveness of the Athenian society from which he retreats in disgust and rage.” My thoughts: This play was in some ways a lot like Coriolanus: a once-well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover: “Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe&#8217;s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CanLit Challenge Book #48: That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book 48, That Summer in Paris (1963) &#8211; Morley Callaghan “It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America moved to La Rive Gauche-the Left Bank of the Seine River-in Paris. Ernest Hemingway was reading proofs of A Farewell to Arms, and a few blocks away F. Scott Fitzgerald was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CanLit Challenge Book #47: Woodsmen of the West by Martin Allerdale Grainger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book 47, Woodsmen of the West (1908) &#8211; Martin Allerdale Grainger “When Woodsmen of the West first appeared in 1908, most readers could not relate to its rendering of the rough edges of logging-camp life. M. Allerdale Grainger refused to sentimentalize the West – he drew from life. While his dramatic and loosely structured tale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CanLit Challenge Book #46: Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book 46, Leaven of Malice (1954) &#8211; Leaven of Malice “The following announcement appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman: ‘Professor and Mrs Walter Vambrace are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Pearl Veronica, to Solomon Bridgetower Esq, son of&#8230;’. Although the malice that prompted this false engagement notice was aimed at three people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CanLit Challenge Book #45: The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book 45, The Imperialist (1904) &#8211; Sara Jeannette Duncan “Sara Jeannette Duncan’s classic portrait of a turn-of-the-century Ontario town, The Imperialist captures the spirit of an emergent nation through the example of two young dreamers. Impassioned by “the Imperialist idea,” Lorne Murchison rests his bid for office on his vision of a rejuvenated British Empire. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CanLit Challenge Book #44: The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book 44, The Stone Angel (1964) &#8211; Margaret Laurence “In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant – and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her – Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence. [...]]]></description>
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