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2009
| International BestsellerA sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel — an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicin....[more] |
2008
| In the foreword to his The Collected Short Fiction, Bruce Jay Friedman wrote: "In her late years, my mother confessed to me that she had dropped me on my head when I was two. As I've grown older, I've come to believe that her presumably innocent mistake resulted in the 'tilted' quality I've been accused of having in my work."We can now add to the stories in The Collected Short Fiction the splendidly tilted fictions in Three Balconies, vintage Friedman all. In these stories Friedman returns to th....[more] |
2000
| The author of "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Winds of War" tells the intimate story of his own Jewish heritage in this follow-up to his classic "This Is My God". Placing the Holocaust against the background of recurrent disasters and resurgence in Jewish history, Wouk examines the troubled wonder of Israel and the American Jewish diaspora. |
2009
| In Kathryn Stockett's stunning fiction debut, The Help, three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step . . .Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has....[more] |
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