This story, alternating between turn-of-the-century Chicago and modern times, features a man attempting to reimagine the death of a Jewish immigrant.
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Author: Hemon, AleksandarSummary:Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Haldeman, Joe W.Summary:
Haldeman tells the tale of Carmen Dula's six-year journey through space to the home of The Others, where she represents Earth in hopes of forging a peace accord. But due to Relativity, 50 Earth...
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Author: Brown, PeterSummary:
Always on the verge of something better, Brown's characters in this short story collection are often hard drinking and fast driving--tending to be both violent and religious. And as they grasp for...
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Author: Holmes, JuliaSummary:
Ben has just returned from a war waged against a nameless enemy. To avoid being nabbed by police and forced to work in a factory, he'll need to find a wife. But to do that, he must wear a bachelor...
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Author: King, Laurie R.Summary:
Private investigator Harris Stuyvesant is an American agent who's been given the plum assignment of locating beautiful young model Philippa Crosby. But when Philippa's trail ends at the Théâtre du...
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Author: Schlink, BernhardSummary:
Schlink offers the tale of old friends who come together for a remarkable reunion. One of the group is a convicted murderer and terrorist, fresh out of prison and joined by his devoted sister. But...
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Author: Scibona, SalvatoreSummary:
It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in...
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Author: Nayman, ShiraSummary:
Chief psychiatrist Henry Harrison's new patient, Bertram, has voluntarily confined himself within Shadowbrook's grim walls. A veteran of WWII, Bertram seems to suffer from a strange case of war...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Author: Theroux, PaulSummary:
Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi...
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Author: Thoreau, Henry DavidSummary:Inspired by his opposition to slavery, Thoreau presents the theory that "the government is best that governs least."
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Author: Corey, James S. A.Summary:
An old enemy returns. In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder,...
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Author: Theroux, PaulSummary:
A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch. To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard...
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Author: Manseau, PeterSummary:
A story of faith and fraud in post-Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn...
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Author: Calvino, ItaloSummary:
Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino...
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Author: Corey, James S. A.Summary:The first book in the landmark Expanse series, now a major television series from Syfy! Leviathan Wakes is James S.A. Corey's first novel in the epic, New York Times bestselling series the Expanse...
Genre: Science fiction