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Jacob’s Ladder
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This multi-generational Russian saga covers the period from 1905 until 2011. In 1911, young Jacob Ossetsky meets and falls in love with Marusya Kerns, an aspiring ...Read Review
When the Plums Are Ripe
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In French colonial Cameroon, 1940, the poet and civil servant Pouka returns to his village. He finds his father, a kind of seer, having ...Read Review
The Organs of Sense
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In 1666, 19-year-old Gottfried Leibniz, not yet famous for inventing calculus, visits an unnamed astronomer who, alone in the scientific universe, has predicted a ...Read Review
Grievous: A Novel
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This intense, unwieldy, and moving narrative about lives of quiet and not-so-quiet desperation is the sequel to the critically celebrated Wilberforce, set, like ...Read Review
The Secret Wife of Louis XlV: Francoise d’Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon
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When Françoise d’Aubigné was born in a French prison cell to a disgraced criminal and the warden’s daughter, no ...Read Review
Been Here a Thousand Years
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Life has always been hard in the small southern-Italian farming village of Grottole. The inhabitants give their all to the land, but the ...Read Review
Dancing to “Almendra”
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To young journalist Joaquin Porrata, an assignment writing about a dead hippopotamus seems like another disappointment in a career full of them. Soon, ...Read Review
The Moments Lost
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Olds (Bucking the Tiger, Raising Holy Hell), turns his stylish prose toward turbulent American Progressive Era history in The Moments Lost. He traces ...Read Review
Behold the Many
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“Everyone I have ever loved has left me behind.” One character writes these words to another in a letter, but in reality ...Read Review