Mary Helen Ponce grew up in a Pacoima barrio in the middle of World War II. Hoyt Street is her memoir of the times, the places, the people and the food as she experienced it as a sheltered, bratty, impish, bright, sassy, questioning young girl. She’s bilingual, raised in a household so overflowing with kids [...]
The Tiger’s Wife is an enigmatic, involving tale of life in the Balkans (the actual country is coyly, and rightly, never named). Interweaving the contemporary experience of Natalia, a young doctor, with that of her grandfather and, by extension, an unbroken line of folk memory stretching into the distant past, this first novel by Téa [...]
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This wonderful novel captures a remote time and place (northern Mexico in the late 1800s) teeming with fascinating characters who live large while debating politics, spirituality, community and faith. There is an aristocratic Don and his engineer companion; his mistress, his wife and illegitimate children; faithful retainers; rebellious natives; a dastardly priest; and soldiers who [...]
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Hardcover Fiction Week V is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes 1Q84, Haruki Murakami 11/22/63, Stephen King The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides Micro, Michael Crichton The Litigators, John Grisham The Prague Cemetery, Umberto Eco Explosive Eighteen, Janet Evanovich Kill Alex Cross, James Patterson Hardcover Non-Fiction Shaq Uncut, Shaquille Oneal Steve [...]
