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“Moving… A constant pleasure to read… Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book… Orlean, a longtime New York writer, has been captivating us with human stories for decades, and her latest book is a wide-ranging, deeply personal, and terrifically engaging investigation of humanity’s bulwark against oblivion: the library… As a narrator, Orlean […]

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              An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone. When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the […]

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The […]

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Book Recommendations in the Order of Submission Marsha Winer: Beneath the Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan Marsha Winer: When the Crawdad Sings by Delia Owens Marsha Winer: Unfreedom of the Press by Mark Levin Nina Prays: This is My God by Herman Wouk Marilou Lieman: Becoming by Michelle Obama Dana Weinberg: To Catch a Traitor by D.B. […]

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Amazon.com Review The Amazon Editors’ Pick for the Best Book of 2017: In the 1920s, the Osage found themselves in a unique position among Native Americans tribes. As other tribal lands were parceled out in an effort by the government to encourage dissolution and assimilation of both lands and culture, the Osage negotiated to maintain the […]

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A review from www.jewishbookcouncil.org by Bob Gold­farb – June 20, 2017 Immor­tal­i­ty has always fired the human imag­i­na­tion. Homer’s Odysseus spurned eter­nal life so that he could go home to his wife. The Chris­t­ian para­ble of the Wan­der­ing Jew sees immor­tal­i­ty as a curse: a Jew who mocks Jesus is pun­ished by being unable to die until […]

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National Jewish Book Award Winner! The New York Times-bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a new powerful and passionate novel—inspired by historical events—about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives. In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end […]

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A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb […]

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