The Spy and the Traitor
by Ben Macintyre
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For over a decade, Oleg Gordievsky of the Soviet Union was a double-agent for the British, climbing the rungs of the Soviet KGB's political ladder while supplying the ...
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Jamie Chornoby
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Beyond the Book: The Rise and Aftereffects of Communism in the Soviet Union
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre untangles the case of Soviet Union/KGB agent turned British/MI6 spy, Oleg Gordievsky. However, little attention is given to why and how The Union of Soviet ... Beyond the Book
The Incendiaries
by R O. Kwon
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Phoebe Lin, the glamorous but tortured heroine of The Incendiaries, is convinced she has no room for religion. Phoebe's father might have founded a Korean church in L.A. ...
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Beyond the Book: The Shinchonji Church
In The Incendiaries, Phoebe Lin is gradually drawn into a fictional Christian cult called Jejah. South Korea is home to a few such apocalyptic religious cults, the most prominent among them being Shinchonji. Shinchonji, whose full name is ... Beyond the Book
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
Listen to the Marriage
by John Jay Osborn
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
by Hiro Arikawa
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Code Girls
by Liza Mundy
The riveting story of the USA's courageous and accomplished WWII female American code breakers.
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Andre Dubus III's First Novel in a Decade
A masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.
Recalling contemporary classics such as Americanah, Behold the Dreamers, and The Brief ...
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Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
The writing style of George Saunders is unlike any other author I have ever read. His words sear, touch your heart like few things ever have. He has captured a beloved ...
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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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