Hope Floats: Of all the characters in Angie Kim’s bestselling debut novel, Miracle Creek, Young Yoo gets the most sympathy. The Korean woman comes to the US in the hope…
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Snatched From Headlines: Daniel Silva’s astonishingly topical thrillers have plots that could actually have taken place, outside of the writer’s imagination; in fact, a few of his books have…
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Stardust In Her Eyes: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love (2006) was turned into a movie starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, so the writer took a backseat. Based on the…
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Chronicle Of A Death: Laila Lalami’s The Other Americans is written with an understated sense of the dramatic—a sudden death and the impact on people around, opens up like one of those toys…
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Over The Rainbow: Who could have imagined that a photo of Judy Garland and Maud Gage Baum sitting together on a film set, would trigger this wonderful book, Finding Dorothy, by…
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Spotlight On Oman Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies is the first novel from the Gulf to win the Man Booker International Prize—a book by a female Omani author at that, a scholar and academic. The judges called…
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Decker’s Dilemma David Baldacci’s unusual creation, Amos Decker, the man with a perfect memory, returns in the fifth book of the series—Redemption. For those who may not have encountered Decker before, a football…
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The Talking Typewriter There is a funny bit in Linwood Barclay’s A Noise Downstairs, where a man has to explain to his son what a typewriter is, because, looking at the noisy…
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All’s Well In Botswana It’s been twenty years and nineteen books—neither Alexander McCall Smith’s Botswana, nor his “traditionally built” heroine, Precious Ramotswe, have changed much. In the latest No. 1 Ladies…
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Lucky Toby Tana French, best known for her Dublin Murder Squad series, has written a stand-alone novel The Wych Elm, a richly atmospheric and very spooky suspense tale placed in the midst of a…