Kate Christensen has created a masterpiece with "The Great Man." Ironically, it is really a novel about three great women and one very flawed man. Oscar Feldman is the so called "great man" of this story. Unfortunately for Oscar, he is dead for the duration of this retelling of his life. The story centers [...]

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Paulo Coelho is a master at writing stories that provide a glimpse into human frailties. He is a modern parable teller. "The Devil and Miss Prym" is no exception to his style and does indeed provide the most telling view of temptation and our typical response to it.
In this parable of good and evil, a [...]

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"Telex from Cuba" authored by Rachel Kushner is one of those books that mixes historical facts with an interesting fictional narrative–a book you simply cannot put down once you start reading it. It is a story about the employees of the United Fruit Company in Cuba and the 330,000 acres of land that it controlled [...]

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The Whore’s Child and Other Stories
$12.95 (USD)
Richard Russo
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“The Whore’s Child” is an unbelievably touching collection of short stories that showcase Richard Russo’s ability to portray various characters as vulnerable, human and sympathetic. The title story is about an elderly nun that enters a creative writing class and proceeds to give [...]

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Terrorist
John Updike
$24.95 (USD)
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Terrorist is a fictional work of art. It introduces us to a world of despair where the main character, Ahmad, is a teenage boy in search of an identity. He is manipulated by others into the dark world of Islamic terrorism and is part of [...]

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