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| May 30, 2008 | ||
“We think we know the ones we love.” So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever truly know another person. (read review) |
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| May 28, 2008 | ||
Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives. MEMORY was a colossal bestseller in Europe. (read review) |
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| May 25, 2008 | ||
When a ragtag international crew of migrant workers is forced to flee the strawberry fields they have been working in, they set off across England looking for employment. Displaying the same sense of compassion, social outrage, and gift for hilarity that she showed in A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka chronicles their bumpy road trip with a tender affection for her downtrodden characters and their search for a taste of the good life. (read review and AUTHOR INTERVIEW) |
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| May 24, 2008 | ||
On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a recent Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe to Chicago, knocked on the front door of the house of George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police. When Shippy came to the door, Averbuch offered him what he said was an important letter. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him. Now, in the twenty-first century, a young writer in Chicago, Brik, also from Eastern Europe, becomes obsessed with Lazarus’s story—what really happened, and why? (read review) |
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| May 22, 2008 | ||
Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two. (read review) |
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| May 21, 2008 | ||
When Pippa Dunn,adopted as an infant and raised terribly British, discovers that her birth parents are from the American South, she finds that "culture clash" has layers of meaning she'd never imagined. Meet The English American, a fabulously funny, deeply poignant debut novel that sprang from Larkin's autobiographical one-woman show of the same name. (read review) |
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| May 19, 2008 | ||
In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, bound for England and then America. On board were five young nuns who, exiled by Bismarck’s laws against Catholic religious orders, were going to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Early one morning, the ship ran aground in the Thames and more than sixty lives were lost—including those of the five nuns. This notorious shipwreck prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit seminarian, to break years of “elected silence” with an outpouring of dazzling poetry. Hansen combines a thrilling tragedy at sea with the seeming shipwreck of Hopkins’s own life. (read review) |
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| May 18, 2008 | ||
Anita Carbone was a good girl—and it bored her. That’s why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war veteran with the gentle touch. But it was also where she met his drug-dealing roommate—a man whose unnatural appetites led to murder... First publication in almost 50 years! (read review) |
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| May 16, 2008 | ||
Oscar Feldman, the renowned figurative painter, has passed away. As his obituary notes, Oscar is survived by his wife, Abigail, their son, Ethan, and his sister, the well-known abstract painter Maxine Feldman. What the obituary does not note, however, is that Oscar is also survived by his longtime mistress, Teddy St. Cloud, and their daughters. Recent winner of the Pen-Faulkner award. (read review) |
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| May 14, 2008 | ||
"In the late 1960s in Turkey, there were often open confrontations between Leftist student groups and the military. The military carried out a coup in March 1971 and many members of these student Leftist groups were arrested and quite a few, tortured. It is this real life event that forms the basis for Maureen Freely's novel..." (read review) |
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| May 13 , 2008 | ||
Mary Whipple shared her views on Child 44 at the end of April when this book first released. As often happens with a good book, more than one of us reads it and takes the time to review it. So when Eleanor informed me that she had read the book and that I was welcome to post her review, I decided to do just that. Just a reminder that you can enter to win a copy of this book (sponsored by Hachette Books) up until May 19th... Um, I'm reading it now too and I'm betting that this is one of the hot pass around books of the summer -- so even if you don't win it, I recommend that you beg, borrow, steal or, more honorably, buy Child 44. (read review) |
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| May 12, 2008 | ||
A compelling, perceptive and disturbing account of one man's fight to survive incarceration. After a brief spell in prison, Len Tarbutt, nineteen years old and serving a life sentence, is transferred to the maximum security ward of a mental hospital. In The Treatment and its award–winning sequel, The Cure, Tarbutt's efforts to survive the system into which he has been thrust, and at the same time preserve his individuality, are movingly and often humorously portrayed by Peter Kocan, himself a survivor of just such a system. (read review) |
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THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE 
from 15 reviews
MEMORY 
from 3 reviews
STRAWBERRY FIELDS 
THE LAZARUS PROJECT 
THE BLUE STAR 
from 15 reviews
THE ENGLISH AMERICAN 
EXILES 
A DIET OF TREACLE 
THE GREAT MAN 
ENLIGHTENMENT 
CHILD 44 
THE TREATMENT & THE CURE 
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