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Staff Picks
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The Geographer's Library Jon Fasman |
Fasman is the editor for “The Economist”, web version. His first novel alternates storylines in two centuries. 12th century Al-Idrisi, geographer to the Sicilian king, collected a vast library of books and treasures on the subject... >> Read more |
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown Paul Theroux |
Paul Theroux, the well-known author of 12 travel books and 24 novels, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi from 1963 to 1965 and thereafter an instructor at Uganda’s Makerere University for four years. In 2001, as he approached his 60th... >> Read more |
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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Heidi Durrow |
Rachel never thought of herself as black or white. In her home, she was always just Rachel. Now, at eleven years old, she’s been uprooted from her life in Chicago and sent to live with her paternal grandmother in Portland. Divided between the... >> Read more |
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The Spellman Files Lisa Lutz |
When you live above the family business, it's hard leaving work behind. And when that business is a private investigations firm, it's easy to understand the Spellman family motto: "Surveillance starts at home." There's even an interrogation... >> Read more |
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The Garden at the Edge and Beyond Michael Phillips |
Michael Phillips has written a touching fantasy in the flavor of George MacDonald and C.S.Lewis. The character, whose name is unimportant, awakens into a strange yet beautiful world. With the help of the individuals he meets, he begins to re-... >> Read more |
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Back on Blossom Street Debbie Macomber |
All of our previously met friends are still on Blossom Street, with the addition of Susannah Nelson, owner of Susannah's Garden. She has just hired Colette Blake, a young widow, to work with her in the flower shop. Together they join a knitting class... >> Read more |
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The Sunday List of Dreams Kris Radish |
"The Sunday List of Dreams" holds everything Connie Nixon has put on hold since finding herself a divorced mother with 3 daughters to raise. Now those daughters are long grown and the reader meets Connie on the day of her retirement from 32... >> Read more |
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Atonement Ian McEwan |
British novelist Ian McEwan’s eighth novel, Atonement, explores the far-reaching consequences of two crimes, both committed on a summer evening in 1935 at the English country estate of the Tallis family. The eldest child, Leon, returns home for... >> Read more |
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The Great Deluge Douglas Brinkley |
In the author's note he states that as a historian he "knew a wicked hurricane could alter world history". Douglas Brinkley is an academic historian at Tulane University, resident of New Orleans and commentator for network news channels. The... >> Read more |
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland |
Susan Vreeland’s first novel follows a mysterious painting from the present day back through the lives of its owners. The book, which is made up of eight independent but intertwined stories, begins with a reclusive professor who is hiding what... >> Read more |
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What You Owe Me Bebe Moore Campbell |
What You Owe Me is a multi-layered novel in which Ms Campbell explores the nature of family, friendship, ethics and betrayal. Set in LA between the 1940s and 1990s, the story entwines the lives of Gilda, a concentration camp survivor, and... >> Read more |
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The Abstinence Teacher Tom Perrotta |
The eternal battle of the sexes is transferred to the battlefield between Evangelical Christians and proponents of sex education. Ruth Ramsey, sex ed teacher at a local high school, is trying to survive the aftermath of her divorce and a scandal... >> Read more |
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