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Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
Peter Conn
A Romantic Education
Patricia Hampl
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reviewed: The War and its Horses
I read The Last Daughter of Prussia as a writer myself, also writing about eastern Europe, though at different points in hist...
The Last Daughter of Prussia - Marina Gottlieb Sarles
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reviewed: The Signature of All Things: A Novel
Not what I expected from the author of Eat, Pray, Love, this novel is written in the old-fashioned style of prose popular in ...
The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert
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reviewed: TransAtlantic: A Novel
Threading history and fiction, with three female characters from the same family in different times and places, and a living ...
TransAtlantic - Colum McCann
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reviewed: The Shortest Way Home: A Novel
While reading The Shortest Way Home, I learned some things I didn't know, which I love to do when enjoying fiction. Huntingto...
The Shortest Way Home: A Novel - Juliette Fay
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reviewed: After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story
There is a family secret at the heart of this lovely memoir, but it's nothing terribly shocking. The author's father died whe...
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story - Michael Hainey
reviewed: The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
Not just another self-help book, this one is written by an architect who uses designing and building a house as a metaphor fo...
The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters - Sarah Susanka
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reviewed: The Secret Keeper: A Novel
Loved, loved, loved it. As a writer, I more and more read with a critical eye, or to see how the author manages plot, develop...
The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton
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reviewed: Little Century: A Novel
Using lyrical prose, author Anna Keesey tells the story of Esther, an eighteen year old orphan from Chicago who travels west ...
Little Century - Anna Keesey
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