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Dec.22.2011
Book Review: A World of His Own: In the Land of the Creoles, by Arlette Gaffrey
A World of His Own is an enjoyable historical novel set in New Orleans in the early 1800′s. The novel spans a few years and centers around the life of Andre Raphael de Javon, an ambitious and handsome Frenchman who comes to America in order to become one of the richest plantation owners in...