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THE SUNDAY REVIEW | ZEITOUN - DAVE EGGERS

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | ZEITOUN – DAVE EGGERS

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  The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over READ MORE

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD - ANNE TYLER

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD – ANNE TYLER

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  From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author–now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career–a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family’s life. “It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon.” This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story READ MORE

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | JUST KIDS - PATTI SMITH

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | JUST KIDS – PATTI SMITH

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  It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound READ MORE

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | MAISIE DOBBS - JACQUELINE WINSPEAR

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | MAISIE DOBBS – JACQUELINE WINSPEAR

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Maisie Dobbs isn’t just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence—and the patronage of her benevolent employers—she works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. After the READ MORE

RELEASE DAY REVIEW | IF I FALL, IF I DIE - MICHAEL CHRISTIE

RELEASE DAY REVIEW | IF I FALL, IF I DIE – MICHAEL CHRISTIE

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  A heartfelt and wondrous debut, by a supremely gifted and exciting new voice in fiction. Will has never been to the outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to know anyone other than his mother, a fiercely loving yet wildly eccentric agoraphobe who drowns in panic at READ MORE

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | LEAVING BEFORE THE RAINS COME - ALEXANDRA FULLER

THE SUNDAY REVIEW | LEAVING BEFORE THE RAINS COME – ALEXANDRA FULLER

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  Looking to rebuild after a painful divorce, Alexandra Fuller turns to her African past for clues to living a life fully and without fear. A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of 2 deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller’s own marriage leaves her shattered. READ MORE