All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, 2014 Scribner 544 pp. ISBN-13: 9781501173219 Summary Winner, 2014 Pulitzer Prize From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the ...
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel, 2014 Knopf Doubleday 352 pp. ISBN-13: 9780804172448 Summary An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the ...
Awards:This debut novel has won multiple awards and was a New York Times bestseller, Amazon's #1 Best Book of 2014, and on the Best Book of the Year lists of over a dozen outlets. *Discussion Questions Questions and Topics for Discussion 1. Discuss the relationships between Nath, Lydia, and Hannah.
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Lila is also the story of a stolen child, but this child’s world is not one in which the prison house threatens to shut down childhood, it is a loss of childhood altogether: a dumb and violent existence of confusion and fear.
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Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.
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That fleeting interaction is at a level only slightly lower than the intensity generated in Colm Toibin's Nora Webster. But despite that, this is a book that slowly began to grow on me.
Set in modern-day Haiti, “An Untamed State” is the story of an American lawyer who’s kidnapped while visiting her rich parents in Port-au-Prince. For more than 200 pages, she’s beaten, burned, sliced and gang-raped.
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The Vacationers Emma Straub, 2014 Penguin Group (USA) 304 pp. ISBN-13: 9781594631573 Summary An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca.
After reading Little Failure, I'm convinced of what I suspected when I picked up The Russian Debutante's Handbook about a dozen years ago: that Gary Shteyngart is America's greatest living writer of long prose narrative.
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Norberg is an excellent piece of investigative journalism. Ms. Nordberg based her book on interviews.
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