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Secrecy
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Set in late 17th-century Florence at the Medici court of the Grand Duke Cosimo III, Secrecy tells the story of Zummo, a talented ...Read Review
The Luminaries
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In January 1866, Walter Moody, newly arrived in the New Zealand goldfields, stumbles into a furtive gathering of twelve local men who have met ...Read Review
The Journey of Anders Sparrman
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The Journey of Anders Sparrman is a biographical novel of the life of the 18th-century naturalist, explorer, and physician. The narrative begins in ...Read Review
The Sisters Brothers
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Speaking as someone who won’t read Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove because it’s a Western, won’t see the evidently delicious ...Read Review
The Seventh Well
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The Seventh Well was originally published in East Germany in 1971, but not until its reissue in 2006 did it begin to achieve the ...Read Review
The Rowing Lesson
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Harold Klein was a skinny Jewish South African kid with a hard-working general store proprietor father and a high-strung mother. He wants to ...Read Review
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
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Dancing in the Streets is a compilation of essays celebrating the collective joy demonstrated through ritual dancing. Throughout history, dance and music have ...Read Review
