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by Dara Horn
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsWith astonishing grace and simplicity, Dara Horn interweaves a real art heist, history, biography, theology, and Yiddish literature. Richly satisfying, utterly unique, her novel opens the door to "the world to come"not life after death, but the world we create through our actions right now.
by Brian Strause
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsBy turns humorous and heartbreaking, personal and sweeping, familiar and extraordinary, Brian Strause's first novel takes readers on an unforgettable emotional journey into America's heartland.
The Green Age of Asher Witherow
by M. Allen Cunningham
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsA rich, coming of age tale set during the boom and bust years of an immigrant coal mining town in 19th-century California.
by Cynthia Ozick
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsA grand romantic novel of desire, fame, fanaticism, and unimaginable reversals of fortune set in the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe's ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees.
by Sarah Bird
Published Oct 2002
Read Reviews'Who else can write about dancing, music, JP-4 fuel, the military, and strawberries, make it funny, and also make it about matters of the heart? Only Sarah Bird. This is her best book yet, a big book that you'll want to read again as soon as you finish it the first time.'
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