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Barkskins
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What is it that makes Annie Proulx’s voice so compelling, so completely her own? She creates characters and situations and then sits ...Read Review
The Sage Train: Philosophy Comes to Life
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This novel uses a quirky and original idea: a dead Nietzsche, discussing great philosophers with a travel companion. The book is written in ...Read Review
Cooking for Picasso
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In the spring of 1936, Pablo Picasso is living under an assumed name in the village of Juan-les-Pins and seventeen-year-old Ondine has been tasked ...Read Review
The Storm Sister
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Ally D’Aplièse is a multifaceted young woman – musician and skilled sailor – who signs on as crewmember for the difficult Cyclades Regatta. ...Read Review
Karolina’s Twins
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The devastation of wartime often forces people to do the unthinkable, to make impossible choices, for the sake of survival, and the guilt ...Read Review
Our Family Dreams
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This is a multigenerational saga beginning in the Revolutionary era, and extending to the late 19th century. The book is not as much ...Read Review
The Versions of Us
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In 1958 England, Eva, a talented writer, and Jim, a gifted painter, are strangers. When a nail (or a rock or a dog) stops ...Read Review
The Silver Suitcase
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This dual-period novel set in Manitoba, Canada, focuses on two women. The novel begins in 1939 with Cornelia, a 17-year-old farm girl who has ...Read Review
The House by the Lake
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In 2010, 29-year-old Anna Young, a successful café owner in San Francisco, is asked an unusual favor from her beloved 94-year-old grandfather, Max Albrecht. ...Read Review
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
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Gabriela and her mother, the beautiful Luna, have never connected. Desperate to understand her mother and their family’s troubled history, Gabriela pieces ...Read Review