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The Spanish Bow

By Andromeda Romano-Lax - Published 2007 (US)Published 2008 (UK)

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Can art save us from ourselves? In her elegant debut, Ms. Romano-Lax ponders this timeless question through the ambitious tale of Feliu Delargo, ...Read Review

Voyage

By Adele Geras - Published 2000 (UK)Published 2007 (c1983) (US)

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Children/Young Adult

This young adult novel, first published in 1983, follows the lives of a number of mostly Jewish immigrants who are sailing on the SS ...Read Review

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By Wu Ming - Published 2006

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Wu Ming is a collective of novelists meaning “no-name” in Chinese; most of the same collective was responsible for the Luther Blissett novel ...Read Review

Cyrano

By Geraldine McCaughrean - Published 2006

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Children/Young Adult

McCaughrean’s version of Edmond Rostand’s celebrated and classic romantic tale is delightful. Readers of all ages will appreciate the author’s ...Read Review

The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, the Men Who Introduced the World to Itself

By Jonathan Wright - Published 2006

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Nonfiction

In The Ambassadors, Jonathan Wright’s stated purpose is to show how influential ambassadors have been “in the encounters, collisions, and rivalries among ...Read Review

Götz and Meyer

By David Albahari (trans. Ellen Elias-Bursac) - Published 2006

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Literary

It is rare that a slim book can wield such emotional impact, but Götz and Meyer is small in page-length alone; the ...Read Review

A Tale of Love and Darkness

By Amos Oz - Published 2005 (US)Published 2006 (UK)

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Nonfiction

One potent image conveys the essence of Amos Oz’s life and his relationship with Israel, an image presented by the writer Tchernikhowsky: “…...Read Review

Karoo Boy

By Troy Blacklaws - Published 2005

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Children/Young AdultLiterary

Douglas Thomas is a white teenager in Cape Town, South Africa, in the late 1970s. He lives with his mother, father, and twin ...Read Review