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From the author of the massive fantasy trilogy: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn and equally massive sci-fi series: Otherland, comes Shadowmarch, the first volume of Tad William’s new trilogy.
Williams has returned to a fantasy setting since Otherland with his recent standalone contemporary fantasy novel, The War of the Flowers and now Shadowmarch.
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The Namesake was written by Pulitzer Prize winning Jhumpa Lahiri, an American of Indian origin who writes on themes of cross-cultural conflict and integration. The hero of the novel, Gogol Ganguli, grows up with an oddly Russian forename in an Indian family that has migrated to the States but returns to Calcutta for vacations. Gogol […]

This is a book of short stories ranging from the historic (like the title story which is about the Hindenburg), to the contemporary (the story “Reach For The Sky” takes place entirely in an animal shelter), to the completely fantastic (the story “The Creature From The Black Lagoon” is based on the 1954 film, but […]

This book, written by the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, describes the effects of the civil war in the Sudan seen through the eyes of one of the Lost Boys, Valentino Achak Deng. The horror stories Achak tells describe his flight from his home in the Sudan to a refugee camp in […]

This action-packed mystery, set at Princeton, is a fun read. It’s The Da Vinci Code meets academia. It’s “country mouse goes to the city.” It’s got secrets, decoding, and boys being boys.
I enjoyed the audio book, which is read by Jeff Woodman. Even though the four main characters are all college guys, the narrator does […]

Three women in different times, different places, and different points of view are all connected by the book Mrs. Dalloway. Virginia Woolf writes the book, a veteran’s housewife reads it in 1949, and a modern day New Yorker is nicknamed “Mrs. Dalloway” by a former lover. But these women share deep connections: uncertainty, mental illness, […]

A Song of Ice and Fire is the ultimate in Epic Fantasy. Martin’s characters come alive with depth and personality that is often lacking in Fantasy fiction. Rather than wielding the power of fireballs and lightning bolts, many of the characters in this series wield political clout and Kingdom-spanning ambitions.
A Feast for Crows is the […]