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Helen Garner
Helen Garner talks about her first fictional work - The Spare Room - and what led her to explore the themes of friendship and death in this book.
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Stephanie Kallos
Stephanie Kallos discusses the story behind her second novel, Sing Them Home.
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Indra Sinha
Indra Sinha discusses many aspects of his life and his writing, in particular Animal's People, a fictionalized account of the aftermath of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India.
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Kristin Cashore
Kristin Cashore discusses her first novel, Graceling, a fantasy novel for older teens, and her plans for the next two novels in the series.
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by Marilynne Robinson |
BookBrowse Rating:
Reviewed by Amy Reading.
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BookBrowse Says:
I simply could not get Gilead out of my head after I read
it. Neither, apparently, could Marilynne Robinson, so she wrote it all over
again from another character's perspective, even replaying some of the same
scenes from a different corner of the room.
The story at the heart of both books is Jack Boughton's return to Gilead, Iowa,
after twenty painful years of self-exile, and the way his presence deeply
unsettles two families, his own and that of his...
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| Selected 2008 Favorite Paperbacks |
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The Shock Doctrine
by Naomi Klein
Critics' Concensus:
The bestselling author of No Logo exposes the rise of "disaster capitalism" and destroys the myth of the global "free market". |
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
Critics' Concensus:
Changez is at the top of his class at Princeton, and is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with elegant, beautiful Erica. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. |
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The Tenderness of Wolves
by Stef Penney
Critics' Concensus:
A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year. |
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The Collaborator of Bethlehem
by Matt Beynon Rees
Critics' Concensus:
For decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favorite former pupil is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis, Omar is sure he has been framed. Then the wife of the dead man, also one of Omar Yussef’s former pupils, is murdered, possibly raped. And, as no one else will, it is up to him to investigate. |
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The Sweet In Between
by Sheri Reynolds.
Publishes: 11/25/2008.
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Sheri Reynolds weaves an unforgettable and sumptuous tale of lost youth and the search for meaning and place in a small Virginia tidewater town.
With her father in prison, her mother dead, and her eighteenth birthday on... |
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Michelle Moran
Michelle Moran's novel Nefertiti takes readers back in time to the reign of Egypt's most notorious queen.
The Romantic Times Book Review writes that Nefertiti "belongs alongside the finest fictional biographies."
Michelle is available to chat with
book clubs all over the... Read More
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Walter R. Mead
Walter Russell Mead discusses God and Gold, which explores the role of Anglo-American religious traditions in shaping contemporary America, and the world, over the past 400 years. |
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| Erica Schwartz joins us to chat about her 17-year-old Manhattan-based book club, "The Nights at the Round Table." |
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| Best Recent Reader Reviews |
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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| 12/28/2008: I have to concur with Judy. The 1st half of the book showed great promise, but I found the ending to be rather abrupt... read more |
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A Map of Home
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| 1/4/2009: I think finding a well written coming of age novel that features a female protagonist is a rare event. Most of those... read more |
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The Reader
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| 12/29/2008: Whilst one cannot deny that the content of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink is certainly emotive and tragic, I find... read more |
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