Carnegie’s Maid Review
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Carnegie’s Maid Review

Mr. Carnegie, as Clara refers to him for most of the book, lives with his mother, Margaret, and his brother, Tom, in Homewood. As Clara serves Mrs. Carnegie, she struggles to keep a secret and fend off polite advances from Mr. Carnegie. Her situation isn’t helped by Mrs. Carnegie’s difficult demeanor.

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The Nightingale
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The Nightingale

The Nightingale follow two sisters as they get tangled up in occupied France during WWII. Is the Nightingale a true story? Sort of. The characters are fiction but Isabelle was based on someone real.

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The Master and Margarita
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The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita by Russian writer, Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union during Stalin's regime between 1928 and 1940, is a difficult-to-summarize novel. The story is conglomeration of subplots loosely tied together by Ivan Homeless, a poet who is admitted into an asylum after Satan accurately predicts the decapitation of Homeless’s colleague.

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