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Read Apr 25, 2014 Cover Image Source “A Tale for the Time Being” is an intelligent and deeply moving novel that not only entertains and educates but also probes cross-culturally shared i...
Read Jul 7, 2014 Cover Image Source WHAT IT IS ABOUT: In “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” Mitch Albom offers a unique and comforting image of heaven. Heaven is the place where you...
Read Aug 21, 2015 Cover Image Source WHAT IT IS ABOUT: “Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection” is a graphic novel anthology of Native American trickster tales collecte...
Read Jul 23, 2014 Cover Image Source DISCLAIMER: I received a copy of “Guardians of Magessa” by Peter Last through a LibraryThing Member Giveaways Program in exchange for an honest revie...
Read Aug 3, 2014 Cover Image Source WHAT IS IT ABOUT? “Fifth Business,” the first book in The Deptford Trilogy by Canadian writer Robertson Davies, is Dunstan Ramsay’s memoir written...
Read Jul 12, 2015 Cover Image Source WHAT IT IS ABOUT: “So Far From God” by Ana Castillo is a peculiar magical realism novel set in a small village of Tome in New Mexico. Abandoned by...
Read Aug 19, 2014 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Christina Baker Kline’s novel “Orphan Train” juxtaposes two touching life stories of unlikely friends, a 17-year-old Penobscot Indian Molly and a ric...
Read Aug 20, 2014 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? David Small’s “Stitches” is a gloomy and harrowing memoir written as a graphic novel. The story brings us back to the author’s childhood and lets u...
Read Sep 10, 2014 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? “The Spectacular Now” by Tim Tharp is a highly entertaining and surprisingly insightful story of a teenage alcoholic. A high school senior Sutter Keely...
Read Sep 8, 2014 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” by Anthony Marra is a haunting novel set in war-ridden Chechnya in a decade of First and Second Chechen Wars (1994-...
Read Jul 2, 2015 WHAT IT IS ABOUT: “Okay for Now” by Gary Schmidt is a heartwarming young adult historical novel centered around eighth grader Douglas Swieteck. After Doug’s abusive fat...
Read Jun 24, 2015 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt” by Michael Lewis is both an infuriating and uplifting true story about the U.S. stock market corruption in the twent...
Read Sep 22, 2014 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? “Fables: The Deluxe Edition, Book One” by Bill Willingham is a collection of ten first issues of “Fables” comic book series. In this award-winning ...
Read Jun 9, 2015 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? “Astro Boy, Vol. 3” by Osamu Tezuka, a legendary manga master, is the third volume in a twenty-three-volume manga series Astro Boy. The Astro Boy series...
Read Sep 29, 2014 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Ian McEwan’s “Sweet Tooth” is an intriguing novel about love, literature, espionage and politics in Britain during the 1970s. The story’s protagoni...
Read June 8, 2015 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? “Astro Boy, Vols. 1 & 2” by Osamu Tezuka, a legendary manga master, is a collection of the first two volumes in a twenty-three-volume manga series Astr...
Read Oct 22, 2014 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Gene Luen Yang’s “Boxers & Saints” is a two-volume graphic novel about The Boxer Rebellion in China at the turn of the 20th century. Although each bo...
Read Jun 2, 2015 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Jhumpa Lahiri’s first novel “The Namesake” is a beautifully narrated family saga of the Gangulis, Bengali immigrants in the United States. An arranged...
Read Aug 24, 2014 WHAT IS IT ABOUT? “American Born Chinese” is Gene Luen Yang’s multiple-award-winning comic book, featuring three seemingly unrelated stories. The first tale is a well-...