by ta | Jan 19, 2010 | Fiction, Staff Picks
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few...
by ta | Dec 2, 2009 | Non-fiction
David Grann is a reporter for the New Yorker Magazine who likes to write about people who are obsessed with one thing or another, so writing about Percy Fawcett’s obsession with the Amazon rainforest and a lost civilization in that region was a perfect...
by ta | Nov 12, 2009 | Fiction
On Monday evening, we had the pleasure of hosting New York Times Best-selling author, Matthew Pearl. At the end of a wonderful presentation about his work and the making of his book The Last Dickens, a member of the audience asked what books he was reading. Here are...
by ta | Sep 28, 2009 | Fiction, Mystery
Originally from Palestine, Nayir is something of an outsider in Saudi Arabia. As a desert guide, he has become familiar with the bedouin customs, but the bedouins do not welcome him into their social circles and the Saudi’s think he is too much like a bedouin to...
by ta | Sep 14, 2009 | Fiction
In Sarah Dunant’s latest historical novel, we follow the lives of two nuns. Suora Zuana is the dispensary mistress. Caring for her fellow sisters allows her some freedom perhaps not available to others. She can continue her medical studies encouraged by her late...
