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by Paul LaFarge
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsA decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
by Charles Benoit
Published Feb 2006
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by Herman Wouk
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsA rollicking Washington tale about a media firestorm swirling around a vast Hole in Texas and one obscure scientist who gets swept up in the vortex.
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