Your Duck Is My Duck
by Deborah Eisenberg
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In this collection of six short stories, Deborah Eisenberg presents characters confronting limits and contradictions related to memory and perspective. If two people remember ...
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Lisa Butts
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Beyond the Book: Political Puppetry
While staying at an island resort, the protagonist of the title story of Deborah Eisenberg's Your Duck is My Duck meets another artist, a puppeteer who is crafting a performance about their benefactors' mistreatment of the island's farmers. ... Beyond the Book
Unsheltered
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Willa Knox's house is falling down. She recently inherited a Victorian residence in Vineland, New Jersey, and moved there with her husband Iano, a Greek-American ...
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Rebecca Foster
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Beyond the Book: The Historical Figures in Unsheltered
Mary Treat Although the two protagonists of Barbara Kingsolver's Unsheltered are fictional, she includes historical figures in her 19th-century story line. Chief among these is Mary Treat, a rare female scientist who deserves to be better... Beyond the Book
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
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Ya Ta, the main character in Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's novel, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, lives in rural northeastern Nigeria and is the first student from her village...
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Karen Lewis
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Beyond the Book: Baobab: The Tree of Life
A prominent symbol in Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, the mighty baobab tree sparks the imagination because of its unusual shape and longevity. Traditional Shona myth explains that the tree showed too much pride and was always whining and calling ... Beyond the Book
The Boneless Mercies
by April Genevieve Tucholke
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The Mercies are assassins, part of a long tradition of killers who serve to end the suffering of the elderly and infirm in Vorseland. It's a thankless job, a far cry from...
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Jordan Finch
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Beyond the Book: Freya, the Norse Goddess of Love, Fertility, War & Death
The Boneless Mercies is based on the classic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, a sweeping tale of heroes, monsters and epic battles influenced by the culture and mythology of sixth-century Scandinavia. While there are no gods or goddesses in Beowulf, there ... Beyond the Book
Gone So Long
by Andre Dubus III
Dubus' first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.
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The Kennedy Debutante
by Kerri Maher
"An engrossing tale of family, faith and love in the life of one remarkable woman." - Booklist
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The Winter Soldier
by Daniel Mason
A story of war and medicine, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and of the mistakes we make.
Andre Dubus III's First Novel in a Decade
A masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.
An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved ...
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Michelle Anya Anjirbag
The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-...
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Davida Chazan
A Well-Behaved Woman
by Therese Fowler
Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont was anything but a well- behaved woman. Left near-penniless as she approached marriageable age in the 1870’s, she set her aim for a wealthy ...
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Waiting for Eden
by Elliot Ackerman
Many moons ago, when I was a junior in high school I read a book for my contemporary history class, called, Johnny got his gun. Several years back I read a novel called, ...
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The Winter Soldier
by Daniel Mason
I had a lot of trouble getting into this book. I felt it read like a foreign dictionary. I was disappointed. I so liked Mason's book The Piano Tuner and was excited to ...
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Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
by Sarah Bird
I started this book and could not put it down. The writing is so amazing and the descriptions keep you completely absorbed in the story. You actually feel that the ...
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
First, the book is generally well written and informative. I read it at one sitting and do not begrudge the time required.
Second, the major idea I drew from the book ...
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The Winter Soldier
by Daniel Mason
The Winter Soldier transports the reader back one hundred years to war torn Eastern Europe. We see events through the eyes of a young medical student being trained in ...
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