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Welcome
A Modest Silence is an exotic tale with conflict, suspense, innocence, budding love, and determination amid chaos. Gaby, a young girl born to Sephardic Jews and raised in Egypt during the reign and subsequent abdication of King Farouk, meets Simon Mahoney, an American diplomat. They fall head-over-heels for one another. But Claude, a handsome and wealthy lad, is clearly her mother’s preference. Read more
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About Sheila Coral Grimes
Sheila Coral Grimes was born
and reared in the European quarter of Alexandria (Camp Cesar),
Egypt. At age eighteen, she married a United States Foreign
Service Officer. Ms. Grimes is fluent in seven languages,
and as a Foreign Service spouse, served as diplomatic interpreter
and French instructor in the USA and abroad. Read
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FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR WOUNDED WARRIORS.
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Excerpt from the Book
For my seventeenth birthday, Simon and Wayne hosted a black-tie dinner-dance at the Auberge Bleue near the Giza Pyramids. They invited all my friends. Roland showed up despite my refusal to marry him. He had been offered a position in California with the Walt Disney organization and wanted me to accompany him as his wife. Read more
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$12.95 / Perfectbound
ISBN: 9781608441969
176 pages
Also available at fine
bookstores everywhere
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