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Glorious Exploits: A Novel
by Ferdia Lennon
the play's the thing (5/17/2025)
This book pays homage to the ancient Greek playwrite Euripides who wrote more than 90 works, staged in Athens around 400 BC. If reading classics makes you yawn but you wish you knew a little more, this book is for you.

The action takes place in Syracuse, on the island ofmore
Absolution: A Novel
by Alice McDermott
Not Inconsequential Women Deliver Absolution (4/17/2025)
McDermott is a master story teller about the real lives of real women in a challenging time and place. The female American protagonists follow their establishment husbands to war adjacent Saigon in the early 60s. The epistolary narrative structure works so well to revisitmore
Playground: A Novel
by Richard Powers
AI Defeats Human Death but Planet Ocean Succumbs (4/8/2025)
This is the story of Planet Ocean. Powers has renamed it from Planet Earth. He describes the teeming life, the fantastical colors, the bizarrely unique life forms. Power’s setting is a teeny tiny atoll within a central Pacific archipelago. It is surrounded by vast ocean. Wemore
Orbital
by Samantha Harvey
Imagine Theres No Country (3/26/2025)
This is not a narrative-driven or compulsive book. It's a poetic and philosophical book.

It presents a set of vignettes describing the beauty of planet earth, meaning of life questions, some politics and some science. Instead of chapters, we have orbitals which is one spinmore
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