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The Book of Lost and Found

By Lucy Foley - Published 2015

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Saga

Spanning most of the 20th century, The Book of Lost and Found is the sort of sweeping multi-period saga I seek out, one ...Read Review

The Bible Salesman

By Clyde Edgerton - Published 2009

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Southern writer Edgerton has never disappointed me with his stories of gentle humor about the South. His latest novel takes place during the ...Read Review

Stand the Storm

By Breena Clarke - Published 2009

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Sewing Annie Coats and her son Gabriel were born in slavery. Annie taught her son everything she knew about sewing so he could ...Read Review

By George

By Wesley Stace - Published 2008Published 2009

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LiterarySaga

Ventriloquists’ dummies can seem rather macabre and a little disturbing, and this novel has an element of the bizarre about it. It is ...Read Review

Tomorrow They Will Kiss

By Eduardo Santiago - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

Santiago evokes a strong sense of Cuban immigrant life in this novel set in 1960s Union City, New Jersey. Graciela, Caridad, and Imperio, ...Read Review

The Hummingbird’s Daughter

By Luis Alberto Urrea - Published 2006

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LiterarySaga

Luis Alberto Urrea had a “flying Yaqui aunt” in Tijuana, Mexico, a woman who was said to be the mystical guiding force behind ...Read Review

Hell

By Kathryn Davis - Published 2003

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Literary

Originally published in 1998, this novel takes us into the lives and minds of the occupants of three separate households: a dollhouse, a house ...Read Review