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The House at Riverton (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9781416550532Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Washington Square Press, 03/01/2009
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Title: The House at Riverton
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Oh, the pleasure of discovering a writer whose every book leaves you hungry for the next... For me, one of those writers is Kate Morton, an Australian novelist who has now seen both of her novels (this one and The Forgotten Garden) rise to the NYT bestseller list. Richly, hauntingly evocative of time and place (the English countryside during the World War decades), The House at Riverton is a gem of a literary gothic - deftly plotted, suspenseful, and deliciously absorbing. And - I cannot wait! - Kate Morton's next book, The Distant Hours, is due out in November, 2010!
Title: The House at Riverton
Comments:
Oh, the pleasure of discovering a writer whose every book leaves you hungry for the next... For me, one of those writers is Kate Morton, an Australian novelist who has now seen both of her novels (this one and The Forgotten Garden) rise to the NYT bestseller list. Richly, hauntingly evocative of time and place (the English countryside during the World War decades), The House at Riverton is a gem of a literary gothic - deftly plotted, suspenseful, and deliciously absorbing. And - I cannot wait! - Kate Morton's next book, The Distant Hours, is due out in November, 2010!
The House on Oyster Creek (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780451229922Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: NAL Trade, 06/01/2010
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Title: The House on Oyster Creek
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"Openhearted" is a world you don't come across very often. When you encounter it in this fine novel, you'll be struck both by its lovely thematic resonance and by the beauty and perfection of Heidi Jon Schmidt's prose. The story is tender and intriguing, vibrant with with emotional honesty and suffused with longing. HJS is my favorite writer-that-you-may-never-have-heard-of. Read this and you'll know why I've been waiting with such anticipation for it.
Title: The House on Oyster Creek
Comments:
"Openhearted" is a world you don't come across very often. When you encounter it in this fine novel, you'll be struck both by its lovely thematic resonance and by the beauty and perfection of Heidi Jon Schmidt's prose. The story is tender and intriguing, vibrant with with emotional honesty and suffused with longing. HJS is my favorite writer-that-you-may-never-have-heard-of. Read this and you'll know why I've been waiting with such anticipation for it.
The Hand That First Held Mine (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780547330792Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 04/01/2010
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Title: The Hand That First Held Mine
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Did you read The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox? Did you stop every few riveting pages to say, "Why haven't I heard of this writer?!" Have you been waiting for Maggie O'Farrell's next novel with great anticipation?
Title: The Hand That First Held Mine
Comments:
Did you read The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox? Did you stop every few riveting pages to say, "Why haven't I heard of this writer?!" Have you been waiting for Maggie O'Farrell's next novel with great anticipation?
Well, here it is, at last: A beautifully written, intricately plotted tale of psychological suspense that also captures perfectly the indescribable bond of love between mother and child.
The God of Animals (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9781416533252Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Scribner, 03/01/2008
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Title: The God of Animals
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Don't be misled by the book's cover - believe me, you don't have to be a "horse person" in order to be drawn into this riveting, passionate, beautifully written first novel. Aryn Kyle's characters are so real,so richly drawn, that you'll half expect to encounter them yourself some hot, dust-blown summer day.
And I swear you'll work up a thirst after a few chapters in the parched Colorado setting - not only for a long cool drink, but also for more stories from this gifted writer.
Title: The God of Animals
Comments:
Don't be misled by the book's cover - believe me, you don't have to be a "horse person" in order to be drawn into this riveting, passionate, beautifully written first novel. Aryn Kyle's characters are so real,so richly drawn, that you'll half expect to encounter them yourself some hot, dust-blown summer day.
And I swear you'll work up a thirst after a few chapters in the parched Colorado setting - not only for a long cool drink, but also for more stories from this gifted writer.
Away (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780812977790Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2008
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Title: Away
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How often in your years of reading have you come upon a book that seems flawless in every way? Seldom, I suspect. Well, this is such a book-chapter after chapter of perfectly-honed sentences that bring to life brilliantly-conceived characters and a relentlessly compelling plot. What a magnificent gift to us all from Amy Bloom. I predict a National Book Award, at the very least, for Away.
Title: Away
Comments:
How often in your years of reading have you come upon a book that seems flawless in every way? Seldom, I suspect. Well, this is such a book-chapter after chapter of perfectly-honed sentences that bring to life brilliantly-conceived characters and a relentlessly compelling plot. What a magnificent gift to us all from Amy Bloom. I predict a National Book Award, at the very least, for Away.
Dervishes (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780312426194Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 03/01/2008
Bookseller: Ev
Title: Dervishes
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Ankara, Turkey, 1975: exotic, beguiling, calamitous, and home to an insular, culturally oblivious community of expatriate American and European diplomatic families. Among them, a driven, distracted American military intelligence officer; his restless self-absorbed wife; and their precocious, dangerously naive 12-year-old daughter. Beth Helms's tale of misguided passions and clashing cultures is brilliant, breathtaking- I could not stop reading.
Title: Dervishes
Comments:
Ankara, Turkey, 1975: exotic, beguiling, calamitous, and home to an insular, culturally oblivious community of expatriate American and European diplomatic families. Among them, a driven, distracted American military intelligence officer; his restless self-absorbed wife; and their precocious, dangerously naive 12-year-old daughter. Beth Helms's tale of misguided passions and clashing cultures is brilliant, breathtaking- I could not stop reading.
As Simple as Snow (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780425207802Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Berkley Trade, 03/01/2006
Bookseller: Ev
Title: As Simple as Snow
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... and my recommendation is as simple as this: 1) read Kaye Gibbons' review on the back of the dust jacket, 2) buy this book, 3) find a comfortable chair, turn off your phone, and settle in for a terrific esmerizing reading experience.
Title: As Simple as Snow
Comments:
... and my recommendation is as simple as this: 1) read Kaye Gibbons' review on the back of the dust jacket, 2) buy this book, 3) find a comfortable chair, turn off your phone, and settle in for a terrific esmerizing reading experience.
Arlington Park (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780312426729Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 12/01/2007
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Title: Arlington Park
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I keep rewriting this recommendation because it seems like nothing I say does justice to this novel. There is a brilliant and profound emotional intelligence at work in these pages - I often found myself re-reading passages, copying them into my notebook, even, because of their arrow-to-the-heart honesty and eloquence.
Title: Arlington Park
Comments:
I keep rewriting this recommendation because it seems like nothing I say does justice to this novel. There is a brilliant and profound emotional intelligence at work in these pages - I often found myself re-reading passages, copying them into my notebook, even, because of their arrow-to-the-heart honesty and eloquence.
Long before I finished Arlington Park, I ordered a copy of everything Rachel Cusk has written. Can't wait to start one of them!
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ISBN-13: 9780385341004Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 05/01/2009
Bookseller: Ev
Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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I've always been drawn to fiction & films set in WWII era Great Britain; but on the other hand, I've never been drawn to dual-authored or epistolary novels. I'm so glad, though, that I put aside my prejudices & read this curiously-titled little book! I love everything about it, from its evocative dust jacket & Guernsey setting, to its witty prose & its fine cast of book-minded characters. Their own compelling stories illuminate a little-known corner of WWII history: the five-year Nazi occupation of the Channell Islands.
Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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I've always been drawn to fiction & films set in WWII era Great Britain; but on the other hand, I've never been drawn to dual-authored or epistolary novels. I'm so glad, though, that I put aside my prejudices & read this curiously-titled little book! I love everything about it, from its evocative dust jacket & Guernsey setting, to its witty prose & its fine cast of book-minded characters. Their own compelling stories illuminate a little-known corner of WWII history: the five-year Nazi occupation of the Channell Islands.
The Welsh Girl (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780618918522Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 01/01/2008
Bookseller: Ev
Title: The Welsh Girl
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Trust me - Peter Ho Davies is one of the finest contemporary fiction writers you've probably never heard of. I discovered his acclaim short stores years ago and have long hoped tha he'd write a novel someday. Well, he's done it, and it's magnificent, rich with conflicted characters whose fates we care about deeply. Their stories are set in motion when the British army builds a POW camp for captured Germans in a rural Welsh village in the waning years of WW II. One of those books you hate to see end...
Title: The Welsh Girl
Comments:
Trust me - Peter Ho Davies is one of the finest contemporary fiction writers you've probably never heard of. I discovered his acclaim short stores years ago and have long hoped tha he'd write a novel someday. Well, he's done it, and it's magnificent, rich with conflicted characters whose fates we care about deeply. Their stories are set in motion when the British army builds a POW camp for captured Germans in a rural Welsh village in the waning years of WW II. One of those books you hate to see end...
The Center of Winter (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780060929688Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Perennial, 02/01/2006
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Title: The Center of Winter
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"All the seasons here in the north move toward their own end, except winter, which moves toward its center and sits there to see how long you can take it."
Title: The Center of Winter
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"All the seasons here in the north move toward their own end, except winter, which moves toward its center and sits there to see how long you can take it."
Exquisite prose...you'll find it on every page of this fine novel, in the pitch-perfect voices of its three narrators (A precocious six-year-old girl, her autistic twelve-year-old brother, and their dazed, grieving mother) as they navigate their various ways through the aftermath of their father/husband's suicide.
The Ten-Year Nap (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9781594483547Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Riverhead Trade, 03/01/2009
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Title: The Ten-Year Nap
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This book was the constant companion of my heart for a whole week - I carried it with me everywhere, longing to steal a few minutes of reading time here and there. Meg Wolitzer turns her nuanced prose, keenly observant eye, and sly wit to the complex, fluid dimensions of American motherhood in the post-womens' lib generation. The result is this rich and satisfying novel, brimming with the kind of familiar details and dilemmas that will leave you sighing with wistful recognition.
Title: The Ten-Year Nap
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This book was the constant companion of my heart for a whole week - I carried it with me everywhere, longing to steal a few minutes of reading time here and there. Meg Wolitzer turns her nuanced prose, keenly observant eye, and sly wit to the complex, fluid dimensions of American motherhood in the post-womens' lib generation. The result is this rich and satisfying novel, brimming with the kind of familiar details and dilemmas that will leave you sighing with wistful recognition.
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780312427641Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 09/01/2008
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Title: The Uncommon Reader
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Even queens lead lives of quiet desperation. But in Alan Bennet's brilliantly imagined story, at least, Britain's beleaguered Queen Elizabeth is rescued from the trials and tedium of royal life, not by a knight or a prince in disguise or even a kindly Prime Minister, but by BOOKS. This enchanting gem (crown jewel?) of a book is nothing less than a paean to literature and its power to transform our lives. I loved it.
Title: The Uncommon Reader
Comments:
Even queens lead lives of quiet desperation. But in Alan Bennet's brilliantly imagined story, at least, Britain's beleaguered Queen Elizabeth is rescued from the trials and tedium of royal life, not by a knight or a prince in disguise or even a kindly Prime Minister, but by BOOKS. This enchanting gem (crown jewel?) of a book is nothing less than a paean to literature and its power to transform our lives. I loved it.
Good Grief (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780446694841Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Grand Central Publishing, 04/01/2005
From reviewers and booksellers alike, advance reaction to this first novel has been terrific. I loved it from the very first paragraph. Lolly Winston's profound and intimate understanding of grief, in all its incarnations, has become gracefully transformed into a novel that you'll long remember and recommend to others. It is brave and beautiful, honest and heartbreaking and hopeful, and yes, even funny.
The Thin Place (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780316014243Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Back Bay Books, 02/01/2007
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Title: The Thin Place
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This is one for the most dazzlingly original exhilarating novels I've ever read. Lest you think I exaggerate, check out the five pages of exultant review excerpts at the beginning of the book. I felt so bereft upon reading The Thin Place that I wanted nothing more than to return to start reading all over again. Instead, I've decided to read everything this gloriously gifted writer has written.
Title: The Thin Place
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This is one for the most dazzlingly original exhilarating novels I've ever read. Lest you think I exaggerate, check out the five pages of exultant review excerpts at the beginning of the book. I felt so bereft upon reading The Thin Place that I wanted nothing more than to return to start reading all over again. Instead, I've decided to read everything this gloriously gifted writer has written.
Half Broken Things (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780440242444Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Delta, 07/01/2006
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Title: Half Broken Things
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Even if I hadn't been looking for this book because of a review in the NYT, I know I would have discovered it by virtue of it's exquisite cover alone. This is a brilliantly plotted novel of unsettling emotional depth and spellbinding psychological suspense-I couldn't stop reading!
Title: Half Broken Things
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Even if I hadn't been looking for this book because of a review in the NYT, I know I would have discovered it by virtue of it's exquisite cover alone. This is a brilliantly plotted novel of unsettling emotional depth and spellbinding psychological suspense-I couldn't stop reading!
Emotionally Weird (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780312279998Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 07/01/2001
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Title: Emotionally Weird
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Giddy, imaginative, exuberant, mysterious, satisfying...
With every book of hers that I read, Kate Atkinson's star shines brighter and brighter in my own little firmament of favorite authors. This clever comic novel in particular, because its subject is the creative writing process and the power and pleasures of languare is especially brilliant. I loved it!
Title: Emotionally Weird
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Giddy, imaginative, exuberant, mysterious, satisfying...
With every book of hers that I read, Kate Atkinson's star shines brighter and brighter in my own little firmament of favorite authors. This clever comic novel in particular, because its subject is the creative writing process and the power and pleasures of languare is especially brilliant. I loved it!
Lucky Girls: Stories (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780061124273Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Perennial, 09/01/2006
No doubt about it - you'll be hearing Nell Freudenberger's name in stellar reviews and in conversations about exciting and gloriously talented writers of new American fiction. If you loved Jhumpa Lahiri's award-winning The Interpreter of Maladies, you'll be just as impressed by this colletion of stories. Read Richard Ford's accolade on the back cover - every word of it is true.
The Master Butchers Singing Club (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780066209777Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: HarperCollins, 02/01/2003
Rather than exploring her Native American heritage as she has done with such lyrical intensity in her earlier work, Louise Erdrich draws primarily on the rich history of her German ancestors in this memorable new novel set in tiny Argus, North Dakora in the years between World Wars I and II. It's a town you'll be loathe to leave, peopled with characters you'll love & long remember. And there's a totally unexpected plot twist at the end...
A rich, magnificent read.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780679429227Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Random House, 01/01/1994
Now I know why this book has been on the NY Times bestseller list for so long. I was captivated from page one - Berendt's Savannah and the parade of eccentric characters we meet there are, by turns, fascinating, compelling, bizarre, intriguing, outrageous. Disturbing and wickedly funny. One of those impossible-to-put-down-but-life-interferes-and-you-have-to books.
Headlong (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780312267469Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 09/01/2000
Every word of high praise you've heard about Headlong is true - it's brilliant, funny, suspenseful, wickedly clever tale of intellectual intrigue and obsession, with the added feature of some fascinating history of northern Europe during the Spanish Inquisition. Art History 101 was never this much fun!
Boomsday (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780446697972Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Twelve, 05/01/2008
Bookseller: Ev
Title: Boomsday
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Christopher Buckley has once again dipped into the bottomless well (cesspool?) of contemporary American politics and culture and brought forth his most diabolically outrageous hilarious novel yet. Although his tale on the Washington scene is as usual over-the -top you'll be more than a little worried when you realize, how short a distance our intrepid leaders (of every political stripe) have to go before they fall over the edge. Even as you worry, though you'll laugh harder than you have in a long time.
Title: Boomsday
Comments:
Christopher Buckley has once again dipped into the bottomless well (cesspool?) of contemporary American politics and culture and brought forth his most diabolically outrageous hilarious novel yet. Although his tale on the Washington scene is as usual over-the -top you'll be more than a little worried when you realize, how short a distance our intrepid leaders (of every political stripe) have to go before they fall over the edge. Even as you worry, though you'll laugh harder than you have in a long time.
Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780547247755Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 09/01/2009
Bookseller: Ev
Title: Ms. Hempel Chronicles
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Remember the wonder you felt in 2nd grade when you ran into one of your teachers "in real life"? Grocery shopping or mowing the lawn or - yikes! - at the beach? Beatrice Hempel, the achingly self-aware, doubt-filled heroine of these quirky connected short stories, is one of those teaches (7th grade English), and her story will surprise and delight you - a grown-up version of your childhood wonder.
Title: Ms. Hempel Chronicles
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Remember the wonder you felt in 2nd grade when you ran into one of your teachers "in real life"? Grocery shopping or mowing the lawn or - yikes! - at the beach? Beatrice Hempel, the achingly self-aware, doubt-filled heroine of these quirky connected short stories, is one of those teaches (7th grade English), and her story will surprise and delight you - a grown-up version of your childhood wonder.
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780143038412Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 02/01/2007
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Title: Eat, Pray, Love
Comments:
A friend told me recently that she loves this book so much that she's already read it twice. Need I say more? Just in case, I will: I too, loved this story of Elizabeth Gilbert's year-long pilgrimage in search of a path to spiritual balance and contentment. Her uncertain leap of faith, courage, and imagination propelled her out of a dark passage in midlife and into a profound new understanding of herself and her place in the world. As readers we are left with the exhilarating sense that we can do the same.
Title: Eat, Pray, Love
Comments:
A friend told me recently that she loves this book so much that she's already read it twice. Need I say more? Just in case, I will: I too, loved this story of Elizabeth Gilbert's year-long pilgrimage in search of a path to spiritual balance and contentment. Her uncertain leap of faith, courage, and imagination propelled her out of a dark passage in midlife and into a profound new understanding of herself and her place in the world. As readers we are left with the exhilarating sense that we can do the same.
When Will There Be Good News? (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780316154857Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Little, Brown and Company, 09/01/2008
Bookseller: Ev
Title: When Will There be Good News?
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Well, here's some! Kate Atkinson's brooding, beleagured hero, Jackson Brodie, is back, having been drawn quite by accident (literally) into a dark tangle of violence-plagued lives. Not so much a who-done-it as a why-done-it, this exploration of the shadowed reaches of the human heart will grab you by the collar in its startling and disturbing first chapter and not let you go until the final pages' utterly unexpected twists of plot. Oh, Jackson...
Title: When Will There be Good News?
Comments:
Well, here's some! Kate Atkinson's brooding, beleagured hero, Jackson Brodie, is back, having been drawn quite by accident (literally) into a dark tangle of violence-plagued lives. Not so much a who-done-it as a why-done-it, this exploration of the shadowed reaches of the human heart will grab you by the collar in its startling and disturbing first chapter and not let you go until the final pages' utterly unexpected twists of plot. Oh, Jackson...
Case Histories (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780316010702Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Back Bay Books, 10/01/2005
Bookseller: Ev
Title: Case Histories
Comments:
Go directly to your favorite chair. Start reading. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. Rather, turn off the phone, tune out the kids/mate/pets/neighbors, and settle in for a quiet, quirky, soil-satisfying literary thrill ride. When you close the book, you'll be back here, looking for more Kate Atkinson, including the sequel, One Good Turn.
Title: Case Histories
Comments:
Go directly to your favorite chair. Start reading. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. Rather, turn off the phone, tune out the kids/mate/pets/neighbors, and settle in for a quiet, quirky, soil-satisfying literary thrill ride. When you close the book, you'll be back here, looking for more Kate Atkinson, including the sequel, One Good Turn.
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9781416573166Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Scribner, 06/01/2008
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Title: Four Seasons in Rome
Comments:
Of all the things I love about this book, what resonates most deeply with me in Anthony Doerr's wonder at and reverence for the storied history of Rome, much of which still lies buried beneath the streets and ancient ruins we see today. His evocation of the lives and labors of generations past brings them vividly to life and makes for a rich and profound, even spiritual reading experience. Now I want to A) learn Italian, B) go to Italy, C) read everything Anthony Doerr has written, and D) nominate his wife for sainthood!
Title: Four Seasons in Rome
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Of all the things I love about this book, what resonates most deeply with me in Anthony Doerr's wonder at and reverence for the storied history of Rome, much of which still lies buried beneath the streets and ancient ruins we see today. His evocation of the lives and labors of generations past brings them vividly to life and makes for a rich and profound, even spiritual reading experience. Now I want to A) learn Italian, B) go to Italy, C) read everything Anthony Doerr has written, and D) nominate his wife for sainthood!
Christine Falls (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780312426323Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 01/01/2008
Bookseller: Ev
Title: Christine Falls
Comments:
Writer Benjamin Black is none other than John Banville, the critically acclaimed author of a host of fine literary novels - most recently, THE SEA, for which he won the Booker Prize.
He brings to bear all of his envialbe writerly skills in this darkly athmospheric perfectly paced crime novel. If you end up as intrigued as I am with Quirke, the story's haunted, hardrinking hero, you'll be delightened to know that Black/Banville is writing a sequel.
Title: Christine Falls
Comments:
Writer Benjamin Black is none other than John Banville, the critically acclaimed author of a host of fine literary novels - most recently, THE SEA, for which he won the Booker Prize.
He brings to bear all of his envialbe writerly skills in this darkly athmospheric perfectly paced crime novel. If you end up as intrigued as I am with Quirke, the story's haunted, hardrinking hero, you'll be delightened to know that Black/Banville is writing a sequel.
Nice to Come Home To (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9781594483561Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Riverhead Trade, 02/01/2009
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Title: Nice to Come Home To
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Rebecca Flowers's gem of a first sentence sets the tone for this smart, fresh, and funny debut novel. In the hands of a less gifted writer, the tale of a thirty-something professional woman who simultaneously loses both her job and her boyfriend might quickly veer into clich
Title: Nice to Come Home To
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Rebecca Flowers's gem of a first sentence sets the tone for this smart, fresh, and funny debut novel. In the hands of a less gifted writer, the tale of a thirty-something professional woman who simultaneously loses both her job and her boyfriend might quickly veer into clich
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ISBN-13: 9781582435602Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Counterpoint, 02/01/2010
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Title:
After the Workshop
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Authors, agents, publicists, writing teachers, book sellers, even readers... John McNally takes satiric aim at all of them in this caustic, clever, calamitous novel about the book biz. It's kind of the literary equivalent of sausage-making, a glimpse behind the scenes that will make you cringe even as it whets your appetite. this is the book that rescued me (finally!) from the reading doldrums this winter - Thank you, John McNally!
The Good Thief (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780385337465Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 08/01/2009
Bookseller: Ev
Title: The Good Thief
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Long before I oh-so-reluctantly turned the last page, I knew that this was one of my favorite books of all time - great-hearted, richly imagined, gloriously written. Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) says it best:
"Every once in awhile - if you are very lucky - you come upon a novel so marvelous and enchanting and rare that you wish everyone in the world would read it as well. The Good Thief is just such a book - a beautifully composed work of literary magic."
Title: The Good Thief
Comments:
Long before I oh-so-reluctantly turned the last page, I knew that this was one of my favorite books of all time - great-hearted, richly imagined, gloriously written. Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) says it best:
"Every once in awhile - if you are very lucky - you come upon a novel so marvelous and enchanting and rare that you wish everyone in the world would read it as well. The Good Thief is just such a book - a beautifully composed work of literary magic."
$20.00
ISBN-13: 9781596914612Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Bloomsbury USA, 10/01/2008
Bookseller: Ev
Title: When Wanderes Cease to Roam
Comments:
Being a shamefully lapsed journal-keeper myself, I am especially enchanted with Vivian Swift's journal of a year in her Connecticut village-by-the-sea. Whimsical, wryly observant and beautifully illustrated and hand-lettered, this is armchair travel to inner spaces and quirky local destinations. I spent a whole afternoon by the fire, savoring the many delights of this imaginative diary, AND it's renewed my commitment to start my own journal AGAIN in 2009.
Title: When Wanderes Cease to Roam
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Being a shamefully lapsed journal-keeper myself, I am especially enchanted with Vivian Swift's journal of a year in her Connecticut village-by-the-sea. Whimsical, wryly observant and beautifully illustrated and hand-lettered, this is armchair travel to inner spaces and quirky local destinations. I spent a whole afternoon by the fire, savoring the many delights of this imaginative diary, AND it's renewed my commitment to start my own journal AGAIN in 2009.
$14.95
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Published: Broadway, 06/01/2000
There aren't many writers who can make me laugh so hard that I cry. Bill Bryson is one of them. And - joy of joys! - there's a new book from him, a collection of articles written in 1996-1998 for a British newspaper. See if you don't laugh out loud, right here in the store, when you read "Your Tax Form Explained" (p. 171), for example, or "Your New Computer" (p. 226.)
Hidden (Paperback)
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Published: Free Press, 07/01/2005
In this unsettling and original first novel, Paul Jaskunas has not only captured perfectly the first person voice of a female narrator, he has also rendered her fractured state of mind utterly convincingly. Maggie Wilson's story is by turns horrific and heartbreaking, haunting and hopeful - it will stay with me for a long time.
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella (Paperback)
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Published: Picador, 09/01/2008
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Title: The Uncommon Reader
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Even queens lead lives of quiet desperation. But in Alan Bennett's brilliantly imagined story, at least, Britain's beleagured Queen Elizabeth is rescued from the trials and tedium of royal life, not by a knight or a prince-in-disguise or even a kindly Prime Minister, but by BOOKS. This enchanting gem (crown jewel?) of a book is nothing less than a paean to literature and its power to transform our lives. I loved it.
Title: The Uncommon Reader
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Even queens lead lives of quiet desperation. But in Alan Bennett's brilliantly imagined story, at least, Britain's beleagured Queen Elizabeth is rescued from the trials and tedium of royal life, not by a knight or a prince-in-disguise or even a kindly Prime Minister, but by BOOKS. This enchanting gem (crown jewel?) of a book is nothing less than a paean to literature and its power to transform our lives. I loved it.
The Ghost at the Table (Hardcover)
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 10/01/2006
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Title: The Ghost at the Table
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Three generations of a New England family gather for Thanksgiving for the first time in many years. If you're thinking Norman Rockwell, think again. There is no rosy-cheeked grandma here, serving up the holiday feast - she is long gone since & mysteriously dead. No benevolent turkey-carving grandpa either. Incapacitated by a stroke, he is all the more ominous in his silence. Suzanne Berne paints a brilliant , compelling portrait of a disaffected family awash in secret grief's & guilts.
Title: The Ghost at the Table
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Three generations of a New England family gather for Thanksgiving for the first time in many years. If you're thinking Norman Rockwell, think again. There is no rosy-cheeked grandma here, serving up the holiday feast - she is long gone since & mysteriously dead. No benevolent turkey-carving grandpa either. Incapacitated by a stroke, he is all the more ominous in his silence. Suzanne Berne paints a brilliant , compelling portrait of a disaffected family awash in secret grief's & guilts.
A Long Way Down (Hardcover)
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 06/01/2005
Who but Nick Hornby could break your heart and make you laugh and stir up your thinking about the precariousness of life itself, all within the space of one page in a novel about suicide? Yet another very wise, very witty, very compassionate story from one of my very favorite writers.
Paranoia (Mass Market Paperback)
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Published: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 01/01/2005
My long-suffering college economics professor would faint if he knew that I was reading a book about corporate business anything! But - WOW! - I could not put this down! It's smart, funny, unpredictable and wildly suspenseful. I've ordered out-of-print copies of all Finder's earlier books, all of which got great reviews when they came out.
One Good Turn (Paperback)
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Published: Back Bay Books, 09/01/2007
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Title: One Good Turn
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It's hard to say what's more fun to watch here: the reluctant return of Jackson Brodie (endearing hero of Kate Atkinson's) to unofficial detective work, or Atkinson's dazzling ability to slowly weave together the disparate story lines of a whole cast of intriguing characters. If you haven't yet read Case Histories, you'll want to by the time you finish this gem from one of my very favorite writers.
Title: One Good Turn
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It's hard to say what's more fun to watch here: the reluctant return of Jackson Brodie (endearing hero of Kate Atkinson's) to unofficial detective work, or Atkinson's dazzling ability to slowly weave together the disparate story lines of a whole cast of intriguing characters. If you haven't yet read Case Histories, you'll want to by the time you finish this gem from one of my very favorite writers.
Wonder Boys (Paperback)
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 04/01/2008
Having read and loved many books in my life, I don't say this lightly: Wonder Boys may well be the very best book I've ever read. Michael Chabon's prose is exuberant, dazzling, intoxicating, and he employs it to tell a deeply satisfying, wonderfully humorous story that is nominally about the perils of the writing life. In a larger sense, though, it leads us through what seems a biblical paradox: That one must lose one's life in order to find it. Even it you've seen the movie, read Wonder Boys - you will long bask in the warmth of its afterglow.
Later, at the Bar: A Novel in Stories (Paperback)
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 05/01/2008
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Title: Later, at the Bar
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In the space of ten brief and remarkable connected short stories, Rebecca Barry introduces us to the frequently hung-over, frayed-around-the-edges regulars at Lucy's Tavern. Gritty, restless, hilarious, heart-breaking...each story tells us something about "the rough and beautiful ways people carried their loneliness." You, too, will be loathe to give up your seat at the bar.
Title: Later, at the Bar
Comments:
In the space of ten brief and remarkable connected short stories, Rebecca Barry introduces us to the frequently hung-over, frayed-around-the-edges regulars at Lucy's Tavern. Gritty, restless, hilarious, heart-breaking...each story tells us something about "the rough and beautiful ways people carried their loneliness." You, too, will be loathe to give up your seat at the bar.
Any Bitter Thing (Hardcover)
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Published: Chronicle Books, 05/01/2005
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Title: Any Bitter Thing
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Reading this exquisite, grace-filled novel was the literary equivalent oflove at first sight - I read the first page, the first paragraph, really, and just fell into the story, gave myself over, heart and soul, to Monica Wood's wondrous prose and to the richly imagined, beautifully rendered lives of her characters. Now I'm in that can't-get-enough state, and have bought a copy of every books she's ever written...
Title: Any Bitter Thing
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Reading this exquisite, grace-filled novel was the literary equivalent oflove at first sight - I read the first page, the first paragraph, really, and just fell into the story, gave myself over, heart and soul, to Monica Wood's wondrous prose and to the richly imagined, beautifully rendered lives of her characters. Now I'm in that can't-get-enough state, and have bought a copy of every books she's ever written...
Eva Moves the Furniture (Paperback)
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Published: Picador, 10/01/2002
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Title: Eva Moves the Furniture
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On a rare summer's day all to myself, I read this novel from cover to cover, not wanting to put it down even for a minute, so beguiled was I by its central unsettling mystery, its lovely evocation of place and time (mist shrouded Scotland in the WWII years), and its poignant understanding of the profound, transcendent nature of a mother's love for her child. Keep tissues handy...
Title: Eva Moves the Furniture
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On a rare summer's day all to myself, I read this novel from cover to cover, not wanting to put it down even for a minute, so beguiled was I by its central unsettling mystery, its lovely evocation of place and time (mist shrouded Scotland in the WWII years), and its poignant understanding of the profound, transcendent nature of a mother's love for her child. Keep tissues handy...
The Missing World (Paperback)
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Published: Picador, 03/01/2006
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Title: The Missing World
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Oh, the pleasure of discovering a write whose work is so wonderful that you immediately want to read everything he/she has written. The Missing World features a suspenseful, amazingly intricate plot, a cast of variously misguided characters and some of the most flawless writing I've encountered. I devoured it in two days recently, stopping only to run to the nearest (independent!) bookstore to buy Livesey's previous novel Criminals, which is now at the top of my reading pile.
Title: The Missing World
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Oh, the pleasure of discovering a write whose work is so wonderful that you immediately want to read everything he/she has written. The Missing World features a suspenseful, amazingly intricate plot, a cast of variously misguided characters and some of the most flawless writing I've encountered. I devoured it in two days recently, stopping only to run to the nearest (independent!) bookstore to buy Livesey's previous novel Criminals, which is now at the top of my reading pile.
Light Years (Paperback)
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Published: Anchor, 10/01/1997
A quiet eloquent reflection on the possibility of understanding and solace in the midst of overwhelming loss. It seems a rare thing to come away from reading a book with a deep sense of gratitude to the author for having shared it with you...this is such a book.
A Little Love Story (Paperback)
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Published: Vintage, 08/01/2006
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Title: A Little Love Story
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This is the kind of life-enriching reading experience we all long for: a story that pulls us so deeply into the lives of its characters that we hate to resurface. Much more than a little love story, Merullo's fine novel paints a portrait of love in all its complex and wild dimension: the love that passes between lovers, the love of family and friends, the love of God and work and creativity; love in all its hues of selfishness and greed, humor and anger, passion and pain. I'm already savoring the anticipation of a new book by this writer.
Title: A Little Love Story
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This is the kind of life-enriching reading experience we all long for: a story that pulls us so deeply into the lives of its characters that we hate to resurface. Much more than a little love story, Merullo's fine novel paints a portrait of love in all its complex and wild dimension: the love that passes between lovers, the love of family and friends, the love of God and work and creativity; love in all its hues of selfishness and greed, humor and anger, passion and pain. I'm already savoring the anticipation of a new book by this writer.
The Good Parents (Paperback)
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Published: Grove Press, 02/01/2009
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Title: The Good Parents
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If you're one of the hundreds of Bookloft customers in recent years who has read and loved Joan London's Gilgamesh, you'll wonder how she could surpass it. But she has - The Good Parentsis quietly disquieting, beautifully written, unforgettable. With varying degrees of success, most of its characters have shed or fled old identities and dreams. Those persistant "shadow lives" imbue each character with such profound and resonant emotional depth that you may look up from your reading and expect to see them all gathered there in the room with you.
Title: The Good Parents
Comments:
If you're one of the hundreds of Bookloft customers in recent years who has read and loved Joan London's Gilgamesh, you'll wonder how she could surpass it. But she has - The Good Parentsis quietly disquieting, beautifully written, unforgettable. With varying degrees of success, most of its characters have shed or fled old identities and dreams. Those persistant "shadow lives" imbue each character with such profound and resonant emotional depth that you may look up from your reading and expect to see them all gathered there in the room with you.
No Great Mischief (Paperback)
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Published: Vintage, 04/01/2001
Canadian writer Alistair MacLeod has given us an unforgettable first novel set primarily on Cape Breton Island in the early and mid-20th Century. The story of the MacDonald clan unfolds over generations of the family's fierce attachment to its Scots heritage, to its immigrant island home and especially to one another. It all culminates in one of the most magnificent, powerful and profoundly moving endings I've ever read.
Saving the World (Paperback)
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 04/01/2007
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Title: Saving the World
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For weeks this Spring, I started and soon abandoned a dozen or more novels, seeking one that hold my interest beyond the first few pages, one of those rare gems that would cast its spell over all my waking hour, cause me to carry it with me everywhere in the hope of stealing a few minutes' reading time here and there in the course of a busy day. My search ended with Julia Alvarez's Saving the World. Its power and beauty lie not only in its lyrical prose but also in Alvarez'z deft interweaving of the deeply moving stories of two courages women (one real, one fictional) who livem love, doubt and dare centuries apart.
Title: Saving the World
Comments:
For weeks this Spring, I started and soon abandoned a dozen or more novels, seeking one that hold my interest beyond the first few pages, one of those rare gems that would cast its spell over all my waking hour, cause me to carry it with me everywhere in the hope of stealing a few minutes' reading time here and there in the course of a busy day. My search ended with Julia Alvarez's Saving the World. Its power and beauty lie not only in its lyrical prose but also in Alvarez'z deft interweaving of the deeply moving stories of two courages women (one real, one fictional) who livem love, doubt and dare centuries apart.
A Three Dog Life (Paperback)
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Published: Mariner Books, 09/01/2007
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Title: A Three Dog Life
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In another writer's hands, this might be a grim, despairing memoir. But the story here driven by Thomas's fierce, passionate prose, is something altogether different: a thought-provoking and inspiring meditation on the mysterious power of loving relationships in traumatized lives as well as a testament to the wondrous capacity of the human brain! I was moved and amazed.
Title: A Three Dog Life
Comments:
In another writer's hands, this might be a grim, despairing memoir. But the story here driven by Thomas's fierce, passionate prose, is something altogether different: a thought-provoking and inspiring meditation on the mysterious power of loving relationships in traumatized lives as well as a testament to the wondrous capacity of the human brain! I was moved and amazed.
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9780684856278Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Scribner, 10/01/2000
Who among us has not wrestled with these questions? Even if you are a doubter your thinking will be challenged and illuminated by this moving meditation. It is profound, deeply compassionate and humble.
The Thirteenth Tale (Paperback)
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Published: Washington Square Press, 10/01/2007
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Title: The Thirteenth Tale
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If ever you've found yourself happily lost in the mists and moors of a Bronte novel, if in fact or fiction, you are drawn irresistably to the lamplit corners of venerable old London bookshops; if you sigh contentedly at the mere though of spending a long winter's evening immersed in a contemporary gothic mystery that unfolds amidst such evocative settings, this is just the book for you.
Title: The Thirteenth Tale
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If ever you've found yourself happily lost in the mists and moors of a Bronte novel, if in fact or fiction, you are drawn irresistably to the lamplit corners of venerable old London bookshops; if you sigh contentedly at the mere though of spending a long winter's evening immersed in a contemporary gothic mystery that unfolds amidst such evocative settings, this is just the book for you.
Bel Canto (Paperback)
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 06/01/2008
To say that I was utterly captivated by this novel seems especially apt as it was inspired by the real-life hostage incident at the home of the Japanese ambassador to Peru in 1996. In this fictional version of the story, the priveliged hostages and their peasant captors find strange and unexpected freedoms in their captivity. Just as the characters in some ways want their ordeal to last forever, so I wanted this seductive and beautifully written book never to end.
I Capture the Castle (Paperback)
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 04/01/2003
Add my name to the half-century old & ever-growing list of readers who consider this one of their favorite books of all time, who treasure their worn & dog-eared copies, and who recommend it to every discerning reader they know. I loved it as much for the young narrator's original witty & charming voice, as I did for the quirky story of her eccentric, Bohemian family living in poverty in 1930's England.
The Namesake (Paperback)
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Published: Mariner Books, 09/01/2004
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Title: Namesake
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For all of you who loved Jhumpa Lahiri's eloquent (and Pulitzer Prize winning) short story collectionThe Interpreter of Maladies, here at last is her long-awaited first novel. It is even more satisfying than the stories, I think if only for the fact that we have the immense pleasure of her characters' company for a whole 291 quietly astonishing pages.
Title: Namesake
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For all of you who loved Jhumpa Lahiri's eloquent (and Pulitzer Prize winning) short story collectionThe Interpreter of Maladies, here at last is her long-awaited first novel. It is even more satisfying than the stories, I think if only for the fact that we have the immense pleasure of her characters' company for a whole 291 quietly astonishing pages.
Run (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780061340642Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Perennial, 08/01/2008
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Title: Run
Comments:
A current of secret and heart-wrenching sacrificial love courses with great consequence beneath the deceptively quiet surface of Ann Patchett's new novel. Her characters contend with their fates with a pure and profound humanity that I find lovely to contemplate, weeks after finishing the book.
Title: Run
Comments:
A current of secret and heart-wrenching sacrificial love courses with great consequence beneath the deceptively quiet surface of Ann Patchett's new novel. Her characters contend with their fates with a pure and profound humanity that I find lovely to contemplate, weeks after finishing the book.
The Rose Thieves: Stories (Paperback)
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Published: Picador, 10/01/2003
A treasure of a book from my favorite writer - you-may-not-have-heard-of. The stories here are connected in a satisfying novelistic arc, and with each one, I was drawn ever more deeply into the exquisitely observed lives of its characters. "Elysian View" is one of the most tender, achingly beautiful stories I've ever read. Look for Heisi's new novel (Sept 2003), The Bride of Catastrophe.
Broken for You (Paperback)
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Published: Grove Press, 06/01/2005
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Title: Broken for You
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Imagine all the ways in which our lives are broken: our hearts, too often; our spirits, too; our minds, even. Our families fracture, our illusions shatter, our bodies fail. Now imagine all of these themes being set together perfectly, like pieces of a mosaic. The result is this beautifully written, triumphant novel of hope, repair, and reconciliation.
Title: Broken for You
Comments:
Imagine all the ways in which our lives are broken: our hearts, too often; our spirits, too; our minds, even. Our families fracture, our illusions shatter, our bodies fail. Now imagine all of these themes being set together perfectly, like pieces of a mosaic. The result is this beautifully written, triumphant novel of hope, repair, and reconciliation.
The Forgotten Garden (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9781416550556Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Washington Square Press, 03/01/2010
Bookseller: Ev
Title: The Forgotten Garden
Comments:
Yes, this big novel will demand a big investment of your reading time. And no, it's not a book without its flaws... Less than fully developed male characters, for example, but who cares? It's a great read - a mysterious, captivating, superbly plotted tale of family intrigue that moves back and forth in place and time, to great suspenseful effect. London, Australia, Cornwall... The turn of the last century, the 1970's, the present... If you loved The Shell Seekers or The Thirteenth Tale, you'll love this.
Title: The Forgotten Garden
Comments:
Yes, this big novel will demand a big investment of your reading time. And no, it's not a book without its flaws... Less than fully developed male characters, for example, but who cares? It's a great read - a mysterious, captivating, superbly plotted tale of family intrigue that moves back and forth in place and time, to great suspenseful effect. London, Australia, Cornwall... The turn of the last century, the 1970's, the present... If you loved The Shell Seekers or The Thirteenth Tale, you'll love this.
Adam the King (Hardcover)
$21.95
ISBN-13: 9781590512845Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Other Press, 05/01/2008
Bookseller: Ev
Title: Adam the King
Comments:
Theoretically, you could read this brief, brilliant, Gatsby-esque novel in one sitting: on a cross-country flight, let's say, or during a lazy afternoon at the beach. But I suspect that you'll find yourself stopping again & again in spite of the urgent insistency of the story, to re-read, to marvel at the living, breathing richness of Jeffrey Lewis's characters as they reveal themselves on the page. I finished the book in awe of this writer's gifts.
Title: Adam the King
Comments:
Theoretically, you could read this brief, brilliant, Gatsby-esque novel in one sitting: on a cross-country flight, let's say, or during a lazy afternoon at the beach. But I suspect that you'll find yourself stopping again & again in spite of the urgent insistency of the story, to re-read, to marvel at the living, breathing richness of Jeffrey Lewis's characters as they reveal themselves on the page. I finished the book in awe of this writer's gifts.
When We Get There (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9781596913509Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Bloomsbury USA, 05/01/2007
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Title: When We Get There
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Read the first sentence of this riveting debut novel. If you think that an author couldn't possibly sustain that level of dazzling prose and intrigue for an entire book, you are wrong. The story of young Lucas Lessar will capture your heart and refuse to let go, long after the last page is turned.
Title: When We Get There
Comments:
Read the first sentence of this riveting debut novel. If you think that an author couldn't possibly sustain that level of dazzling prose and intrigue for an entire book, you are wrong. The story of young Lucas Lessar will capture your heart and refuse to let go, long after the last page is turned.
Many readers are reluctant to take a chance on a first novel, especially in hardcover, but When We Get There is a sure bet, I guarantee, and Shauna Seliy is the real thing.
The Marriage of the Sea (Paperback)
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Published: Picador, 04/01/2004
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Title: Marriage of the Sea
Comments:
I am eternally grateful to Margot Livesy, whose New York Times reviews have introduced me to so many fine novels. This one is so richly atmospheric, so finely wrought in every respect, that nothing I say here will do it justice.
Title: Marriage of the Sea
Comments:
I am eternally grateful to Margot Livesy, whose New York Times reviews have introduced me to so many fine novels. This one is so richly atmospheric, so finely wrought in every respect, that nothing I say here will do it justice.
The story is intriguing as much for its subtlety, for all that is left unsaid, as it is for its intricate plot and beguiling characters. Throughout it all, fittingly, flows a tide of past and future, hope and despair, love and betrayal. It will sweep you away.
Summer Reading (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780345485878Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ballantine Books, 05/01/2008
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Title: Summer Reading
Comments:
How perfect is this?! Just in time for your summer reading pleasure, a smart, wickedly funny, keenly observant tale of life, love, and literature among the "haves" and "have nots" in a seaside community on Long Island. You'll wish you could read it in one delicious sunscreen-slathered sitting.
Title: Summer Reading
Comments:
How perfect is this?! Just in time for your summer reading pleasure, a smart, wickedly funny, keenly observant tale of life, love, and literature among the "haves" and "have nots" in a seaside community on Long Island. You'll wish you could read it in one delicious sunscreen-slathered sitting.
The Dearly Departed (Paperback)
$13.00
ISBN-13: 9780375724589Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Vintage, 08/01/2002
Can there possibly be secrets in a town as small as King George, NH, population 1,008?
Yup. And you'll have a heck of a good time watching them surface and roll through the lives of a wonderfully engaging population of characters in this very smart, very funny, compellingly readable novels.
Secrets to Happiness (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780316013581Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Little, Brown and Company, 03/01/2009
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Title: Secrets to Happiness
Comments:
One critic has said that Sarah Dunn's writing marries the emotional and social insight of Jane Austen with the provocative contemporary sensibility of "Sex and the City." Well said! If Meg Wollitzer, Norah Ephron, Elinor Lipman or Allison Pearson are among your favorite writers, you'll addSarah Dunn to your list before you even finish Secrets to Happiness.
Title: Secrets to Happiness
Comments:
One critic has said that Sarah Dunn's writing marries the emotional and social insight of Jane Austen with the provocative contemporary sensibility of "Sex and the City." Well said! If Meg Wollitzer, Norah Ephron, Elinor Lipman or Allison Pearson are among your favorite writers, you'll addSarah Dunn to your list before you even finish Secrets to Happiness.
Away (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780812977790Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2008
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Title:Away
Comments:
How often in your years of reading have you come upon a book that seems flawless in every way? Seldom, I suspect. Well, this is such a book - chapter after chapter of perfectly-honed sentences that bring to life brilliantly conceived characters and a relentlessly compelling plot. What a magnificent gift to us all from Amy Bloom. I predict a National Book Award, at the very least, for Away.
Title:Away
Comments:
How often in your years of reading have you come upon a book that seems flawless in every way? Seldom, I suspect. Well, this is such a book - chapter after chapter of perfectly-honed sentences that bring to life brilliantly conceived characters and a relentlessly compelling plot. What a magnificent gift to us all from Amy Bloom. I predict a National Book Award, at the very least, for Away.
Criminals (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780312424695Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 09/01/2005
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Title: Criminals
Comments:
Margot Livesey has an extraordinary talent for creating utterly believable, variously sympathetic and flawed characters whose lives converge in intricately-plotted, psychologically suspenseful stories. I've read and loved everything she's ever written and can't wait for whatever she's working on now.
Title: Criminals
Comments:
Margot Livesey has an extraordinary talent for creating utterly believable, variously sympathetic and flawed characters whose lives converge in intricately-plotted, psychologically suspenseful stories. I've read and loved everything she's ever written and can't wait for whatever she's working on now.
Banishing Verona (Paperback)
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312425203Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 09/01/2005
Bookseller:
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Title: Banishing Verona
Comments:
The publication of a new Margot Livesey novel fills me with all the pleasure of the arrive of spring. In Banishing Verona, her latests , we are drawn into the enigmatic lives of Jake and Varona, who meet with unexpected passion and promise as the story begins. Their complicated, sometimes mysterious family obligations, however, seem destined to keep them apart. As always, Margot Livesey's characters intrigue us her plot turns and tantalizes, her prose delights.
Title: Banishing Verona
Comments:
The publication of a new Margot Livesey novel fills me with all the pleasure of the arrive of spring. In Banishing Verona, her latests , we are drawn into the enigmatic lives of Jake and Varona, who meet with unexpected passion and promise as the story begins. Their complicated, sometimes mysterious family obligations, however, seem destined to keep them apart. As always, Margot Livesey's characters intrigue us her plot turns and tantalizes, her prose delights.
Housekeeping (Paperback)
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312424091Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 11/01/2004
People have been recommending this book to me for years (first published in 1980) and now I know why. The subtle storyline is almost incidental to the exquisite prose. Robinson uses language in ways more lovely and unexpected than you can imagine.
A Patchwork Planet (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780449003985Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ballantine Books, 02/01/1999
In this long-awaited book from my very favorite writer, Anne Tyler elevates the ordinariness of everyday life to quiet drama & significance, and reveals in her most ordinary of characters, fears, foibles & yearnings, which will resonate with the reader long after the last utterly satisfying page. I love this story.
John Adams (Hardcover)
$40.00
ISBN-13: 9780684813639Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Simon & Schuster, 01/01/2001
What a glorious confluence of fates: One of the most acclaimed historians of our age has taken as his subject one of the nation's most underappreciated founders and presidents. In so doing, he has elevated John Adams to the heroic standing he deserves. This biography far exceeds any account I've ever read, both in its fascinating, scrupulously researched rendering of the era and in its thoughtful exploration of Adams's complex, compelling humanity.
Little Children (Paperback)
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780312362829Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 10/01/2006
From the very first page, I laughed so much when reading this that I was banished from the room. My husband was deep into a tragic scene in Sue Halpern's new novel, and my hysterical outbursts were unseemly, it seems, upsetting the room's precarious literary balance, etc. Given that Eric himself read, loved & staff-picked Tom Perrotta's
previous book, you'd think he would've been a tad more tolerant of my giddy delight in discovering Perrotta's rich & humane genius for myself, right?
Interpreter of Maladies (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780395927205Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 06/01/1999
Bookseller:
Ev
Title: Interpreter of Maladies
Comments:
At times in this remarkable short story collection, Jhumpa Lahiri's use of language is so precise, so resonant, that the effect is utterly poetic. The stories, whether set in the U.S. or in Idia, are at once wondrously exotic and achingly familiar. It's no surprise that this first-published-effort won the Pulitzer Prize.
Title: Interpreter of Maladies
Comments:
At times in this remarkable short story collection, Jhumpa Lahiri's use of language is so precise, so resonant, that the effect is utterly poetic. The stories, whether set in the U.S. or in Idia, are at once wondrously exotic and achingly familiar. It's no surprise that this first-published-effort won the Pulitzer Prize.
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780449003718Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ballantine Books, 01/01/2000
A fascinating glimpse into the exotic, often bizarre world of orchid collecting, as well as an intriguing exploration of the quirky tropical complexity otherwise known as Florida.
Digging to America (Paperback)
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780345492340Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ballantine Books, 08/01/2007
Bookseller:
Ev
Title: Digging to America
Comments:
From the beginning, Anne Tyler's literary territory has been as contained as the individual human heart ,as expansive as our infinite notions of love and family. Here, she explores these themes in a fresh, contemporary context. For the first time, Tyler's characters move figuratively beyond her familiar Baltimore setting and find themselves struggling with issues of cultural identity in post 9-11 America. I've been waiting forever for Anne Tyler to write about her rich connection to Iran (her late husband was Iranian, they have two daughters, she's travelled there often). Digging to America is every bit the insightful, thought-provoking and compelling story I dreamed it would be.
Title: Digging to America
Comments:
From the beginning, Anne Tyler's literary territory has been as contained as the individual human heart ,as expansive as our infinite notions of love and family. Here, she explores these themes in a fresh, contemporary context. For the first time, Tyler's characters move figuratively beyond her familiar Baltimore setting and find themselves struggling with issues of cultural identity in post 9-11 America. I've been waiting forever for Anne Tyler to write about her rich connection to Iran (her late husband was Iranian, they have two daughters, she's travelled there often). Digging to America is every bit the insightful, thought-provoking and compelling story I dreamed it would be.
The Inhabited World (Paperback)
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780618872367Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 07/01/2007
Bookseller:
Ev
Title: The Inhabited World
Comments:
Trying to write this brief comment is an exercise in frustration- this must be Draft #11. Nothing I say does justice to the searing, soulful beauty of David Long's story. At its heart is something rich and real and true: a kind of watchful serenity, a sense of wistful quiet wonders at what we know as life and what we imagine as death. I can't remember when, or even if, I've ever been so deeply affected by a novel.
Title: The Inhabited World
Comments:
Trying to write this brief comment is an exercise in frustration- this must be Draft #11. Nothing I say does justice to the searing, soulful beauty of David Long's story. At its heart is something rich and real and true: a kind of watchful serenity, a sense of wistful quiet wonders at what we know as life and what we imagine as death. I can't remember when, or even if, I've ever been so deeply affected by a novel.
Gilgamesh (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780802141217Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Grove Press, 05/01/2004
Bookseller:
Ev
Title: Gilgamesh
Comments:
One of my favorite books of the last few years, Gilgamesh is one of those rare novels that seems near-perfect in every respect: in its evocation of historic times and exotic locales; in its understanding of the pasts and passions that drive an unforgettable cast of characters; in its quiet intrigued suspense, and above all, in its beautiful prose.
Title: Gilgamesh
Comments:
One of my favorite books of the last few years, Gilgamesh is one of those rare novels that seems near-perfect in every respect: in its evocation of historic times and exotic locales; in its understanding of the pasts and passions that drive an unforgettable cast of characters; in its quiet intrigued suspense, and above all, in its beautiful prose.
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Hardcover)
$23.00
ISBN-13: 9780151014118Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/01/2007
Bookseller:
Ev
Title: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Comments:
On a chilly autumn evening, I sat down with this haunting novel and finished it at 4:00AM. I couldn't stop reading- not to go grab a tissue for my tears, not even to get an afghan or turn up the heat. I just sat there lost to time and the real world, riveted by the brilliantly imagined lives of three unforgettable characters.
Title: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Comments:
On a chilly autumn evening, I sat down with this haunting novel and finished it at 4:00AM. I couldn't stop reading- not to go grab a tissue for my tears, not even to get an afghan or turn up the heat. I just sat there lost to time and the real world, riveted by the brilliantly imagined lives of three unforgettable characters.
Then We Came to the End (Hardcover)
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780316016384Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Little, Brown and Company, 03/01/2007
Bookseller: Ev
Title: Then We Came to the End
Comments:
A brilliantly conceived hilarious, even heart-breaking page-turner of a novel about
Title: Then We Came to the End
Comments:
A brilliantly conceived hilarious, even heart-breaking page-turner of a novel about
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