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Cartwheel

October 7, 2013

cartwheel

Maybe that was the problem with this family—they were all in direct competition with one another to see who could bend over backward the farthest, who could suffer the most. Jennifer Dubois’ new ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, Random House, South America, suspense

Night Film

August 19, 2013

Night Film

  Stanislas Cordova is a filmmaker of mythic proportions, his films so dark, so intense they are ultimately given X-ratings and so slip off the main screen to be shown only in random locations at ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, mystery, Random House, suspense

& Sons: A Novel

July 22, 2013

And Sons

David Gilbert’s & Sons is one of the most complex books I’ve read in a long time. By this I mean the plot did not appear until just shy of page 200 and I found most of the main characters to be ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family saga, Manhattan, Random House

Sisterland: A Novel

June 24, 2013

Sisterland

  Violet and Kate are identical twins but they share an even more unusual connection, both are psychic (or as they prefer to call it “having the senses”). They realize their gift at a young age but ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, Random House

Yes, Chef: A Memoir

September 1, 2012

yes chef

The odds that Marcus Samuelsson would survive infancy were slim. That he would not only survive but would go on to become a world famous chef is almost beyond reckoning. And yet, he did. In his memoir ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, chefs, food, memoir, Random House

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