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by Rachel Clarke
Published Sep 2020
Read ReviewsIn Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end.
by Ann Hood
Published Aug 2017
Read ReviewsAn enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle.
by Isabel Vincent
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsA nonagenarian and a recently divorced reporter meet weekly for dinner, and the discussion ranges from the importance of beauty, to living after loss, to the power of love to redeem and renew, to how to make a succulent duck breast.
by Anna McPartlin
Published Aug 2016
Read ReviewsHere is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia "Rabbit" Hayes, life is coming to an end ...
by Kent Haruf
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsA spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.
by Charlie Lovett
Published May 2014
Read Reviews"What about the most valuable relic in the history of English literaturewould that be worth killing for?"
by Sonali Deraniyagala
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsA brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family.
by Paul Auster
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsFacing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations - both pleasurable and painful.
by Lily Tuck
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsSlender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsWritten with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.
by Masha Hamilton
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsThe Camel Bookmobile follows an American librarian who travels to the arid bush of northeastern Kenya to give meaning to her life, but ultimately loses a piece of her heart. A compelling novel that shows how one life can change many, in spite of dangerous and seemingly immutable obstacles.
by Robert Hellenga
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsA novel about a man's search for meaning that illuminates our deepest concerns: love and death, marriage and family, and the mysterious tug of beauty on the human heart.
by Karen Joy Fowler
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsDedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.
by Azar Nafisi
Published Dec 2003
Read ReviewsNafisis luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of womens lives in revolutionary Iran.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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