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The Kindly Ones
by Jonathan Littell
Told from the point of view of the executionerand in his voiceThe Kindly Ones evokes in graphic detail the horrors of Babi Yar, Stalingrad, Auschwitz, and the fall of Berlin in 1945. Massive in scope, horrific in subject matter and shocking in its protagonist, critiques have compared this... Read More
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Sing Them Home
by Stephanie Kallos
After the loss of their mother, the Jones children--Larken, Gaelan, and Bonnie--have grown into adulthood under the shadow of unresolved grief and become encased in town myth. Everyone in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska, knows the story of Aneira Hope Jones, the woman swallowed up by a tornado,... Read More
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Plantation: A Lowcountry Tale (Lowcountry...
by Dorothea Benton Frank
When Caroline Wimbley Levine learns that her mother, Miss Lavinia, has supposedly gone mad, she leaves the big city bustle of Manhattan and returns to Tall Pines Plantation. Caroline originally left Tall Pines to escape her feisty, eccentric mother and her drunken brother, Trip, but when... Read More
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The Metamorphosis: And Other Short Stories
by Franz Kafka
Gregor Samsa, a seemingly typical man, wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. Frustrated and depressed about his physical alteration - and his family's rejection - Samsa's plight is filled with underlying meaning. This important literary work,... Read More
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The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
Mark Twain's classic novel about a poor boy who exchanges identities with Edward Tudor, the prince of England, brings to life the sixteenth-century royal court, the crowded, boisterous streets inhabited by London's hoi polloi, and the behavior of two young boys who are in many ways smarter... Read More
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The Lost and Forgotten Languages of...
by Ruiyan Xu
A sensitive exploration of the power of words and of silence, The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai is a wonderfully evocative debut about love and language, duty and passion, in a vibrant modern city.
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The Good Psychologist
by Noam Shpancer
The Good Psychologist is Noam Shpancer's stunning debut novel about a psychologist who becomes too deeply involved with a patient and winds up shaking the foundations of his own precariously balanced life.
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The Quickening
by Michelle Hoover
In this luminous and unforgettable debut, Michelle Hoover explores the polarization of the human soul in times of hardship and the instinctual drive for self-preservation by whatever means necessary. The Quickening stands as a novel of lyrical precision and historical consequence,... Read More
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Salvation City
by Sigrid Nunez
From the critically acclaimed author of The Last of Her Kind comes a breakout novel that imagines the aftermath of pandemic flu, as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy who is uncertain of his destiny.
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