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Moon Lake

Eudora Welty

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'"Watch out for the mosquitoes," they called to one another, lyrically because warning wasn't any...

The Guns of August

Barbara Tuchman

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Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when...

Collected Poems

Mark Strand

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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award Gathered here is a half century's magnificent work by...

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Nov 14, 2018

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

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This is another novel from 2015 that just keeps gaining popularity. During World War II a blind, french girl, Marie-Laure is forced to flee Paris for Saint-Malo hiding a jewel from her father’s museum. At the same time we learn about a german orphan Werner Pfennig, naturally adept at fixing radios and enlisted to use his skills to fight and find the French Resistance. Doerr interweaves the two characters lives with skill and attention to detail. His prose is beautifully crafted, drawing you into the past with flair and aplomb. This book took ten years to write and every page shows that not a word was wasted, Doerr rightfully received the Pulitzer Prize for this tome. A beautiful novel that deserves your full attention.