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The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor c 2025 as reviewed by Gail M. Murray

This novel is a follow up to Irish novelist O’Connor’s best-selling, My Father’s House inspired by the true exploits of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, the Oskar Schindler of Rome ...more "

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Feb 05, 2013 10:14AM

Thanks for becoming one of my friends on Goodreads. Slowly I'm updating my Goodreads pages.

Hope to see you at an upcoming gathering of the East End Writers' Group.

This month, Feb. 21, the Canadian Authors Association, Toronto branch has a poetry workshop with guest speaker Bunny Iskovm founder of the Ontario Poetry Society. Check out www.canauthorstoronto.org/events.html

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