Metropolitan
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
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A song poet is a person who sings the stories of the Hmong people, a vocal tapestry of sorts of the family line, ...Read Review
The Sound of Our Steps
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In the mid-20th century, Lucette, Maurice, Sammy and Corinne are Egyptian Jews living outside of Tel Aviv, immigrant outcasts physically, culturally and ...Read Review
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
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In his latest work, Grandin gives us a new look at New World slavery in the early 1800s. To do this, he draws ...Read Review
The Hunger Angel
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The fact that this book’s German title, Atemschaukel, translates as something like “Breath Swing,” while the British edition is titled Everything I ...Read Review
Just Send Me Word
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Lev and Sveta meet in 1935 in the Physics program at Moscow University, but the German invasion in the summer of 1941 halts their burgeoning ...Read Review
Partitions
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1947, the year British India is partitioned into the independent nations of India and Pakistan. As the country is torn in two and tension ...Read Review
The Crimean War: A History
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When asked about the Crimean War, many readers may be able to recall only the barest of details, such as Tennyson’s “Charge ...Read Review
