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Follow Gogol and his traditional Indian family as they confront issues of belonging and non-belonging in the US. This is an engaging story that tackles questions of cultural identity.
Tagged: Fiction, Immigration
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Although death looms large in Erdrich’s emotionally powerful, richly detailed new novel, it does so in a “world where butchers sing like angels.Returning to his quiet German village home after World War I, trained killer Fidelis Waldvogel, accompanied by his new wife, starts a new life in America and finds his life irrevocably changed by a new relationship.
Tagged: Fiction
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Mosher has created a delightful character in Jane Hubbell Kinneson, a Vermont Abenaki Scot, who lives alone on her family mountain and does more things in an hour than most do in a day. Her life takes a zany turn when she saves the life of a colorful stranger who dreams of riches. While trying to dig up the past, they are also trying to save the future of an even greater treasure – the Kinneson legacy.
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This book has magic and Englishmen, but isn’t like Harry Potter. It is very Dickensian and creates a world where magic is part of everyday life. A fascinating, involving tale.
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A clinical psychologist obsessed with near death experiences, Joanna Lander joins forces with Dr. Richard Wright, a neurologist who has come up with a way to manufacture NDEs in the laboratory with the help of a mind-altering drug, but the experiments may yield far more than she ever anticipated when she volunteers to become a test subject in the experiment. This book a a mind-bender.
Tagged: Fantasy, Fiction, Science fiction
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Another one of Berry’s lovable Port William characters. Jayber, the town’s bachelor barber, lives his life seemingly quietly but he has his own secret desires, hopes and disappointments. This book is a lovely paean to life.
Tagged: Fiction
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If you want to fall all over your self with sheer glee then get this book post haste. A stirring Irish shaggy pig story and free-for-all from start to finish.
Tagged: Fiction
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A Zen novel – what a concept! I read it in one sitting (no pun intended). This is about a funny little Zen master who gets Alzheimers. A book that is sad and wonderful. I loved the characters so much I wanted them to be real.
Tagged: Fiction
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This book details the fascinating life of John Elder Robison growing up with Asperger’s syndrome, before it had a name. As if that weren’t hard enough, he does this with Augusten Burroughs parents. True, John Elder Robison is Augusten’s brother. His life is just as exciting with a stint as a sound magician for KISS, fiery inferno bathtubs and wacky stunts, I couldn’t put it down.
Tagged: Autism spectrum, Memoir, Non-fiction
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This is a very engaging and readable recounting of the Pilgrims’ trip to America and their early years in Plymouth. It gives a vivid account of what life was like and the issues they had to deal with.
Tagged: History, Non-fiction
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As an expecting first time parent, this book was recommended to me and it is just superb. Lamott, in her honest and insightful way, journals the first year of life with her son. She writes about all the fears and frustrations of raising a baby (in her case as a single parent) that most people are afraid to talk about. It is very encouraging and funny.
Tagged: Babies, Memoir, Motherhood, Non-fiction
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In 1925, given only a year to live by his doctor, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama, where he builds a round house and lives for more than two decades, while visitors make a pilgrimage to visit him on the property he names after Leo Tolstoy. Very quirky, yet lovable character.
Tagged: Fiction