The Lotus Eaters

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AuthorGeraldine Brooks
ISBN0670021040
A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book.

Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard...
AuthorJulie Orringer
ISBN0307713547
A grand love story and an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war.

Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to C. Morgenstern on the...
AuthorMitchell James Kaplan
ISBN1590513525
Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of the lusty King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition. As the power of Inquisitor General Tomás de Torquemada grows, so does the brutality of the Spanish church and the suspicion and paranoia it inspires. When a dear friend’s...
I am Forbidden
AuthorAnouk Markovits
ISBN0307984737
A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar.
 
 
     Sweeping from the Central European countryside just before World War II to Paris to contemporary Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I...
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN0451526872

Unbelievably, Melville had a hard time making a living from his writing.

[That was sarcasm.]

His style is overly archaic. I read a fair amount of classic literature, but this is just ridiculous. In the mid to late 19th century, were people still saying "Hark!"? And "Blah, blah,...
AuthorKim Barnes
ISBN0307273393
Here is the first thing you need to know about me:  I’m a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma, and all the marble floors in the world will never change that.
Here is the second thing:  that young woman they pulled from the Arabian shore, her hair tangled with mangrove—my husband didn’t kill...
Richard the Third
AuthorPaul Murray Kendall
ISBN0393007855
I took a long time to read this, more so as I got through it, because I was delaying reaching the end, even though I know what happens. I didn't want Richard to die. I'm a die-hard Ricardian, always have been, always will be. I don't believe Richard was evil, I don't believe he murdered the Princes in the Tower,...
Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action; A Memoir
AuthorDavid Fajgenbaum
ISBN1524799610
The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure--and became a champion for a new approach to medical research.

"An extraordinary memoir . . . It belongs with Atul Gawande's writings and When Breath Becomes...
The Innocents
AuthorMichael Crummey
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline....
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