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“Major Picquart to see the Minister of War…”
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A novel about the historical Dreyfus Affair, late 1890s France, in which a Jewish officer in the French army was (knowingly) wrongly convicted of treason and sent to Devil‘s Island. Picquart was the officer who came to believe in his innocence.

Conscription day is always the deadliest.
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Decided on a whim to see what the big deal is with this one. I used to read a lot of fantasy, but this'll be my first big one in a few years. Looking forward to it 🤗

"The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man."

- The Hoard of the Gibbelins, Lord Dunsany

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The night is as bright as day with star shells bursting and the muzzle flashes of the eight-inch guns on the heavy cruisers blowing the hell out of the Houston next to us, while the searchlights of the Japanese destroyers are lighting up our ship like a cinema screen.
A WW2 memoir
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“It is minus twelve degrees Celsius as Anna Larsson drives along Tångbölevägen, which is a very narrow road.”

This book, along with the first in the series Hidden in Snow are the basis of The Åre Murders on Netflix! #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

“It's gray, Jim,“ said Dr. Leonard McCoy.

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I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites.

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It was a cold and snowy afternoon in the Unnatural Quarter.

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