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"A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visionary writer Some people call it …
When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale, she’s feeling like “something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, …
4 1/2 stars...I liked it better the second time I read it. Anticipating the rest of the books in this series.
5 stars...re-read it again, and liked it even more in the context of Winter and Spring.
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends …
Excellent prologue. After that, it was difficult to sustain interest in the satire. (It was satire, right?)
Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of …
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the …
A series of timely, short essays that all Americans should read. Really.
Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF …
For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her …
For days after I finished this lovely book, I kept hearing these Crosby, Stills & Nash lyrics in my head:
They are one person
They are two alone
They are three together
They are four [for] each other
When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her …
For days after I finished this lovely book, I kept hearing these Crosby, Stills & Nash lyrics in my head:
They are one person
They are two alone
They are three together
They are four [for] each other
The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when …
Her pupils killed her daughter. Now, she will have her revenge.
After an engagement that ended in tragedy, all …
