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Topic: Best book on your shelf...
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What is the best historical fiction book on your PBS bookshelf? Tell us why it should be requested. Mine is: Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride. http://www.paperbackswap.com/book/details/9781573229715-Miracle+at+St+Anna This book is based on the Buffalo soldiers and a little known historic event that occured during WWII, and even though it's not completely factual, it was still an amazing, moving story. Parts of it frustrated me while other parts made me want to cry. It's a wonderful book! Last Edited on: 6/30/08 11:58 AM ET - Total times edited: 2 |
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I'd say Master and Commanderby Patrick O'Brian. It is the first in a marvelous series of British naval chronicles that take place during the Napoleonic wars. Over and above the naval information and battle details which I love, is the enduring friendship throughout the series of the two main characters, Captain Jack Aubry and Dr. Stephen Maturin. Because of the nature of life at sea, the captain and the doctor spend more time in each other's company than with their respective families and their dedication and protection of each other over the course of years is something to behold between men of that era or any era. Last Edited on: 7/1/08 10:37 AM ET - Total times edited: 1 |
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Right now, I'd have to say Mary Called Magdalene by Margaret George. I think it's best because it takes an inquisitive look to a central figure in history, regardless of one's religious leanings, and imagines her life and her contributions in a well-researched method that could have been real. It's written believably and empathetically. |
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Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts beats any other book on my shelf hands down. It's a revolutionary war novel that I read, geez, about 30 years ago. I've been wanting to re-read it. (I have another copy.) I remember it as one of my favorite Roberts novels. Great character development. Love. War. Very descriptive portrayal of the rabble army that against all odds won the war. Genie |
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None of the available books on my shelf are currently HF...imagine that! |
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I have several HF on bookself, but my favorite isn't there because I can't bear to part with it yet - The Winthrop Woman. I do have: The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette The Many Lives Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (the other 2 are already gone) Memoirs of a Geisha The Red Tent Sarah Of all of those, my favorite is Memoirs of a Geisha.
Last Edited on: 7/9/08 2:44 PM ET - Total times edited: 2 |
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