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Self-Help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America
This biography of Dale Carnegie is as engrossing as a good novel. Born in 1888, Carnegie rose from boyhood poverty…
The Elixir of Immortality
Ari Spinoza, the last surviving member of his family, is dying. Childless and at the end of his family’s long…
A True Novel
Editors' choice
Japanese readers fell in love with 19th-century western literature because it strove to transcend daily life to focus on the…
This House is Haunted
Norfolk, 1867. Eliza Caine, aged 21, is alone in the world after the sudden death of her father. Still grieving,…
The Reservoir
Based upon an old Richmond, Virginia court case, The Reservoir is a complex first novel that is a simmering blend…
Galore
“Newfoundland seemed too severe and formidable, too provocative, too extravagant and singular and harrowing to be real. He half expected…
The Wrong Blood
After reading this book, I found myself agreeing with the blurb on the dust jacket – a rare event. In…
The Quickening
Editors' choice
Michelle Hoover’s debut novel is noteworthy. Based loosely on a family history written by her great-grandmother, Hoover gives a moving…
The Last Rendezvous
Although this novel of early 19th-century France may have been a prize-winner in its original French, it is a slow,…
By Fire, By Water
In 1492, three events would change Iberia and change the world: Isabella and Ferdinand’s reconquest of Muslim Granada, the expulsion…
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