Harcourt
For a Sack of Bones
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Awarded the highest prize in Catalan letters, the Ramon Llull Prize, this somber novel, first published in Spain, tells a tale in the ...Read Review
The Spanish Bow
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In the wake of 9/11, American journalist and travel writer Andromeda Romano-Lax asked herself: if I could write about or do only one ...Read Review
The Konkans
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Lawrence D’Sai is the firstborn son of a firstborn son, part of a line that stretches back generations. He’s also ...Read Review
Lavinia
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I’ve always wished I could write Ms. Le Guin’s lucid prose. In so few words she can create a world and ...Read Review
My Enemy’s Cradle
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Cyrla, child of a Polish Jewish father and a Dutch mother, is sent to live with her late mother’s family in ...Read Review
So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
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Culture wars are nothing new, as Church demonstrates ably in this study of the tenure of America’s first five presidents. Our nation’...Read Review
The Blue Door
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Eddie Cero is an unlikely private investigator. He has been making a living as a welterweight boxer, but his career shows little promise ...Read Review
Dawn of Fear
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Susan Cooper always writes well, and this is one of her deceptively simple books. On the face of it, the story is an ...Read Review
The Bomb
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This is not an easy book to read, although it is meant for teenagers. Taylor was present at Bikini Atoll for the first ...Read Review
A Slave No More: Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
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John Washington, a 24-year-old Virginia slave, escaped to Union army lines in 1862. Seventeen-year-old Wallace Turnage ran away five times from an Alabama plantation, ...Read Review