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May 21, 2012

Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

Nancy Pearl, NPR, says, “C.J. Sansom’s Dissolution is the first in a series of historical mysteries set in Tudor England during the reign of Henry...

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May 15, 2012

Moneyball by Michael Lewis *** (of 4)

The salary gap between rich baseball teams in large cities like New York or Boston and small market teams in places like Kansas City, Minneapolis,...

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May 15, 2012

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson *** (of 4)

William E. Dodd, an unassuming, dysthymic, history professor at the University of Chicago finds himself America’s ambassador to Berlin in 1933. President Roosevelt is battling...

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April 24, 2012

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka **** (of 4)

An elegy for the Japanese women who arrived in California in the early part of the twentieth century as mail-order brides to join lonely Japanese laborers. ...

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April 20, 2012

Island beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

Allende’s novel recounts Haiti’s slave revolt in 1804.

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April 20, 2012

Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander

Asulander’s account of finding Anne Frank still alive and writing in his parent’s attic in upstate NY.

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April 17, 2012

Habibi by Craig Thompson **** (of 4)

Girl meets boy. Girl loses boy. Girl and boy are reunited, but with issues. That part seems straightforward enough, but this telling of the simultaneously...

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April 1, 2012