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Tina Zee Author Of Wild Brigantia

From Tina's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Tina's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Tina Zee Why Tina loves this book

The book is both a profound window into a world where protocols must be adhered, and scandals must be avoided at all costs. The intimate love between Anna and her lover lead to isolation and despair. It gips the heart with emotional turmoil at a time of political changes occuring in Russia at the time.

By Leo Tolstoy ,

Why should I read it?

20 authors picked Anna Karenina as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This gave Tolstoy the starting point he needed for composing what many believe to be the greatest novel ever written.

In writing Anna Karenina he moved away from the vast historical sweep of War and Peace to tell, with extraordinary understanding, the story of an aristocratic woman who brings ruin on herself. Anna's tragedy is interwoven with not only the courtship and marriage of Kitty and Levin but also the lives of many other characters. Rich in incident, powerful in characterization,…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of The Paradise War

Tina Zee Author Of Wild Brigantia

From Tina's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Tina's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Tina Zee Why Tina loves this book

This is book one of the Songs of Albion trilogy by Stephen Lawhead, I was enthralled from the start. It was a quick paced story with a foot in the present time, and the other in the past. I was lost in the magical and mystical land of Albion. This book is rich in Celtic mythology,

By Stephen R. Lawhead ,

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked The Paradise War as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Wolves in Oxford; extinct beasts in Scotland: the barriers between our world and the Celtic Otherworld are breaking down. Two men are drawn into Albion, and changed for ever.


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