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Gilead

By Marilynne Robinson - Published 2004Published 2005

Genres:

Saga

John Ames, a third-generation preacher, is dying of heart disease. It is 1956, and he decides to write a journal of his life for ...Read Review

Conspirators

By Michael Andre Bernstein - Published 2004

Genres:

Thriller

“…lately I have been thinking about a child who is left in the care of indifferent strangers…or a shell-shocked soldier from a ...Read Review

The Monsters of St. Helena

By Brooks Hansen - Published 2003

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

The Monsters of St. Helena could be considered an island’s viewpoint of the events occurring within her precincts. It is not only ...Read Review

Middlesex

By Jeffrey Eugenides - Published 2002

Genres:

Saga

Cal Stephanides, third generation Greek-American, spent the first 16 years of his life as Calliope, dressing and behaving as a girl. Misidentified at birth ...Read Review

The Years With Laura Diaz

By Alfred MacAdam (trans.) - By Carlos Fuentes - Published 2000

Genres:

Literary

This big Mexican novel takes its main character, born in 1898, through 74 years of the 20th century. Mexico, for better or for worse, re-created ...Read Review