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Although this book talks about two very important social issues, i am not sure i would bring this to my future students, because it could be offensive to some. Its an interesting novelisation of real events and people from history. I loved being swept up into the glorious, golden era of. There are still over 100,000 missing works of art that were looted by the nazis during the war, author laurie lico albanese states in the novels afterword.
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