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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

March by Geraldine Brooks *** (of 4)

Mr. March, in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, heads south to fight the Confederacy at the opening of Alcott’s novel and returns on Christmas a...

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April 1, 2012

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz *** (of 4)

Sir Edmund Carstairs requests the aid of Sherlock Holmes when a member of the Flat Cap gang, an Irish thug from Boston, arrives in London...

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March 19, 2012

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell *** (of 4)

High marks for originality. The year is 1799, though it feels like the period is 150 years earlier than that, and the location is just...

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March 1, 2012

Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois ** (of 4)

This book covers Haiti’s history from the first importation of enslaved Africans to the months immediately following the devastating 2010 earthquake. It is as thorough...

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February 22, 2012