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This Other Eden: A Novel
by Paul Harding
This Other Eden by Paul Harding (1/9/2023)
Paul Harding is a masterful storyteller. At the outset I was grasped with astonishment about human behavior and the extremes which set my heart yearning for the characters that would enthrall ones redeeming sensitivities for humane tolerance and forgiveness. The charactersmore
Bewilderment: A Novel
by Richard Powers
Bewilderment (2/8/2022)
A heart warming story of a fathers whose son is autistic and in all his fathers attempts to enroll his son in scientific therapy his son succumbs to his desperation. I cried at the culmination of the story.
Five-Carat Soul
by James McBride
Five Carat Soul (4/9/2019)
McBrides creativity is extraordinary. He can instill wonder and suspense to imagining the history and personal value of a Toy Box Car Set. A president who gains insight and the essence of human values from the conversation of a young boy and his father overheard in a horsemore
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by Sarah Rose
D-Day Girls by Sara Rose (3/16/2019)
D-Day Girls is an enthralling account of wartime intrigue with a sense of colloquial culture set against an invading war machine. It is a complex web of treachery with gradual undermining of the invading forces from within by a network of brilliant and courageous women.more
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