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    Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Survivor Speaks Out by Michael Benfante | Book Review

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    Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Survivor Speaks Out by Michael Benfante Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon Reluctant Hero. On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to work, just like he had day after day, at his office on the eighty-first floor in the World Trade Center North Tower. Moments after the first plane struck, just twelve floors above him, Benfante organized his terrified employees, getting them out the office and moving down the stairwells. On his way down, he and another co-worker encountered a woman in a wheelchair on the sixty-eighth floor. Benfante, the…

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    The Tourist Trail by John Yunker | Book Review

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    The Tourist Trail by John Yunker Genres: American Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon The Tourist Trail is an exciting thriller! Biologist Angela Haynes is accustomed to dark, lonely nights as one of the few humans at a penguin research station in Patagonia. She has grown used to the cries of penguins before dawn, and spending most of her days in one of the most remote regions on Earth. if for no other reason than to protect her birds and her work. Against the backdrop of the Southern Ocean, The Tourist Trail weaves together the…

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    No Cure for the Broken Hearted by Kenneth Rosenberg | Book Review

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    No Cure for the Broken Hearted by Kenneth Rosenberg Genres: American Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Blog, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon Sometimes your very first love never quite lets you go. Katherine Spencer is an up-and-coming architect in New York City. Her professional life is on the fast track. Her personal life is a shambles. Katherine compares every man she ever meets to Nick Bancroft, the billionaire’s son who broke her heart one summer long ago. Now, twelve years later he’s suddenly reappeared, asking her to design a house at the cove where they shared their first kiss. Is…