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by Amy Bloom
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Published Jan 2011
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by Colm Toibin
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsHauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
by Abraham Verghese
Published Jan 2010
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An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others set in 1960s & 1970s Ethiopia and 1980s America.
by Kathleen Kent
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsMartha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. The Heretic's Daughter tells her story; a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.
by Andrew Sean Greer
Published Mar 2009
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by Diane Ackerman
Published Sep 2008
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by Ann Patchett
Published Jul 2008
Read ReviewsSet over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met.
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 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.
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