The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
Anne Michael’s new novel is a mesmerizing love story set in Canada and Egypt during the 1960s, with flashbacks to England and Poland during World War II. Avery, an engineer, and Jean, a botanist, newly married, have traveled to Egypt to save the Abu Simbel temple from the flooding of [...]
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Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
Written by a man who lived through it, Every Man Dies Alone is about life in Nazi Germany. Based on real life people, the novel follows Otto and Anna Quangel, who begin a private campaign of resistance after their son dies in the war. Over the course of two [...]
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The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
In Erica Bauermeister’s debut novel of a Monday night cooking class, eight people gather once a month to learn from Lillian, a chef and restaurant owner, who believes in the healing and magical properties of food. As she shares her understanding and expertise with her students, the reader [...]
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Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
Even at first glance, Dr. Peter Brown does not appear to be a normal intern at the most rundown hospital in Manhattan. Along with a shift from hell, he has a hidden past with close ties to the Witness Protection Program. Everything is actually going pretty well, until a new [...]
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Set in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962, The Help is a novel about three women who come together to try and make change, however small, in their town. Skeeter is a 22-year-old recent college graduate recently returned home to a mother obsessed with marrying her off. Aibileen is a black maid raising [...]