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"A thoroughly enjoyable book. Ivan Doig leads us and the boy through one scrape after another and we keep reading because we want to know how Donny is going to pull it off this time. Terrific ending."
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Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to...
"I have read a lot of books about the "Raj", starting with "The Jewel in the Crown". "Motilal's Tattoo" introduced me to the ethnic cleansing that took place in Burma after Japan prevailed briefly there. This story ca..."
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"I surprised myself by coming away with less fear of the president than when I started the book. Perhaps this is due to the gritty details Woodward provides. The president is, after all, human. He comes across as less diabolical than other media ha..."
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