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From the Jewish slums of pre-war South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York's Wallkill Prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the American Century, this novel collapses an era into a single life and a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional non-fiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir.
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A masterful new novel from the bestselling author of "City of Light" and "A Fierce Radiance." Susanna's beloved Uncle Henry leaves behind a cryptic note that alludes to his haunting WWII experience as an Allied soldier in Germany. On his deathbed, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach bequeaths Sara the score of one of his father's cantatas. Sara is stunned to see its violently anti-Semitic lyrics. Weaving together the stories of Susanna and Sara, Lauren Belfer...
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Hunters found his body naked in the snow. So begins this breakout book from Stephen Marche, whose last work of fiction was described by the New York Times Book Review as "maybe the most exciting mash-up of literary genres since David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas."" This is a novel about what it means to be a man in the world of money. It is a story of fathers and sons, about secrets that are kept within families, and about the cost of the tension between...
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A novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
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Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets. As Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both come to grasp the risks...
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Violet is one of the most celebrated courtesans in Shanghai. Abandoned by her mother, Lucia, and uncertain of her father's identity, Violet's quest to truly love and be loved will set her on a path fraught with danger and complexity - and the loss of her own daughter. Lucia's search for penance and redemption will bring her to a startling reunion with Flora, Violet's daughter, and will undo all that Violet believed she knew about her mother. Spanning...
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