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Parisian Cats
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Olivia Snaije, Nadia Benchallal
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, November 18, 2014
What a fun book for cat lovers and Francophiles alike! The well written essays are studded with fun facts about Parisian places, people, and history and will entertain and surprise even the readers who feel they know Paris inside and out. The photographs are delightful. The book will appeal to anyone who has ever dreamed of visiting the City of Light as well as the seasoned traveler, or anyone who simply appreciates felines, whether they be cats or "chats." This book would make a great Christmas gift.
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Mistress Of Spices
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Chitra Divakaruni
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, October 27, 2014
The publisher's description makes this sound like a fantasy novel, but the mysticism in this book serves as a vehicle for compelling story-telling, focusing on the lives of Indian immigrants to the U.S. and their struggles to balance their cultural identities with the challenges of their new lives in America. Ultimately, the novel's protagonist, devoted only to serving others, must question her own identity and her desire for self-fulfillment. I was profoundly moved, not only by Tilo's story, but by those of all the secondary characters.
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Wife 22
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Melanie Gideon
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, May 29, 2014
On the surface a light and witty read, this novel ultimately raises some thought-provoking questions concerning our state of disconnectedness in an ultra-connected online world. The characters are compelling, the dialogue is LOL-funny, the observations relevant. A humorous yet poignant look at contemporary issues.
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Self Storage
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Gayle Brandeis
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, February 26, 2013
"Self Storage" had everything I want in a novel: compelling characters, a quirky, original plot, and lines that are so well written I am tempted to memorize them (my favorite was, "One day a fossil would be found of my heart, a spiral of worry frozen inside."). Brandeis manages to bring a light touch to fundamentally serious subject matter, giving us a thought-provoking yet highly entertaining read.
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Submission
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Amy Waldman
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, January 09, 2013
In the aftermath of 9/11, a blind-jury process results in the selection of a Muslim architect to design the memorial edifice to be built upon Ground Zero. Waldman imagines the diverse reactions to and consequences of this choice, creating a multi-dimensional scenario, populated by characters on all sides of the issue. In the hands of a lesser writer, the plot could have been trite, the characters reduced to obvious stereotypes: the bleeding-heart liberal, the grieving widow, the hate-mongering politician, the ambitious, unscrupulous journalist, the hysterical xenophobe. Waldman, however, writes with penetrating insight and maintains an objective tone, even as her nuanced characters represent starkly contrasting points of view. Packed with riveting dramatic tension, "The Submission" is the most compelling novel I read in 2012.
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