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* * * Interesting,
Inspiring,
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Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor

by Martin Greenfield, Wynton Hall

Published: 2014-11-10

Hardcover: 250 pages

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He's been called "America's greatest living tailor" and "the most interesting man in the world." Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp ...

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* * * * Romantic,
Optimistic,
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Sweet Forgiveness: A Novel

by Lori Nelson Spielman

Published: 2015-06-02

Paperback: 368 pages

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#1 international bestselling author Lori Nelson Spielman follows The Life List with Sweet Forgiveness, in which a woman’s receipt of two “forgiveness stones” sends her searching for atonement The Forgiveness Stones craze is sweeping the nation—instantly recognizable pouches of ston...

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Mozart: A Life

by Paul Johnson

Published: 2014-11-25

Paperback: 176 pages

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“Most satisfying . . . A highly accessible initial foray into an astonishing, and inexhaustible, subject.” —The Cleveland Plain DealerMozart’s music has enthralled listeners for centuries. In this brilliant biography, acclaimed historian Paul Johnson draws upon his expert knowledge...

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* Confusing

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The Hundred-Year House: A Novel

by Rebecca Makkai

Published: 2015-05-26

Paperback: 368 pages

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From the acclaimed author of The Great Believers, an original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield.Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents’ wealth but nevertheless finds hersel...

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Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes

by Cletus Nelson, Adam Parfrey

Published: 2014-06-10

Paperback: 200 pages

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Teary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades.When Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane—the credited artist of the weepy waifs, for a San Diego Reader cover story in 1992—he discovered some shockin...

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At Night We Walk in Circles: A Novel

by Daniel Alarcón

Published: 2014-09-02

Paperback: 384 pages

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The breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a “surrealistic tour de force” (O, The Oprah Magazine) about one man’s obsessive search to find the truth of another man’s downfall.Nelson’s life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man; ...

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* * * * * Insightful,
Interesting,
Romantic

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The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach

by Pam Jenoff

Published: 2015-07-28

Paperback: 384 pages

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Summer 1941 Young Adelia Montforte flees fascist Italy for America, where she is whisked away to the shore by her well-meaning aunt and uncle. Here, she meets and falls for Charlie Connally, the eldest of the four Irish-Catholic boys next door. But all hopes for a future together are soon...

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A Song for Issy Bradley: A Novel

by Carys Bray

Published: 2014-08-12

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A mesmerizing literary debut novel of doubt, faith, and perseverance in the aftermath of a family tragedy—for fans of Me Before You, Little Bee, and Tell the Wolves I’m Home.  The Bradleys see the world as a place where miracles are possible, and where nothing is more important than f...

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August Is a Wicked Month: A Novel

by Edna O'Brien

Published: 2012-04-03

Kindle Edition: 224 pages

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Eschewing her stale life in London, one woman embarks on a journey of independence and sexual liberation on the French Riviera Separated from her husband, and with her young son away on a camping trip, Ellen decides to flee her lonely London home, naively pursuing “a jaunt into iniquity...

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* * Pointless,
Poorly Written

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Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness

by Jennifer Tseng

Published: 2015-05-26

Paperback: 272 pages

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Books may be Mayumi Saito’s greatest love and her one source of true pleasure. Forty-one years old, disenchanted wife and dutiful mother, Mayumi’s work as a librarian on a small island off the coast of New England feeds her passion for reading and provides her with many occasions for w...