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Translated from French to English, The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a powerful novel that brings two very extraordinary characters to life. Renee Michel is a concierge at an upper-class Parisian apartment complex and Paloma Josse is the young (but not innocent) twelve year old daughter of a very wealthy Parisian family living in Renee’s building.
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Safran Foer's debut novel about a young writer who travels to Eastern Europe to find the woman that saved his grandfather from the Nazi's. His writing style is unique and refreshing. Wait until you meet his Ukrainian translator, Alex.
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Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust
This is an autobiographical book that involves Paulo going to the Mojave Desert to meet "the Valkyries", a group of warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles.
Tells the story of 24-year-old Veronika, who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself but instead wakes up in a mental hospital where she is told she has one week to live... Paulo Coelho
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The story of seven generations of the Buendía Family in the town of Macondo, a city of mirrors that reflected the world in and about it.
A great read about a man's life in the circus during the great depression.. the characters and adventure will capture you.
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the true story of two woman that fell in love during the terror of WWII
From the author of Running with Scissors.. this book of true stories is heartwarming, funny, twisted, and magical.
Lightness versus heaviness in life is the central an philosophical theme in this novel by Kundera. The story, set in Prague, follows Tomas, a brilliant surgeon, Tereza, his wife, Sabina his mistress and several others whose lives intertwine as they decipher the meaning of loving and living
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One of my favorite Coelho novels. Set in Paris and in the enchanting landscape of Central Asia, a man searches for the wife that left him without explanation. A story about love and obsession, this book shows how far a person will go for the one that got away.
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Dave Eggers' stream of consciousness style of writing makes you feel like you are a fly on the wall inside his brain. Although this story is about his life, and that of his lil brother Toph and sister Beth, after the loss of both his parents to cancer, you come away laughing and smiling at the relationship between the two brothers and how they both come of age in the face of tragedy.
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Foer tells the story of Oskar Schell, a young boy that lost his father on 9/11, as he travels NYC's 5 boroughs in search of the lock that will fit the key he finds in his father's closet after his death. This is the type of book that puts love and loss in perspective.
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"How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of who we are?" This is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well—or hardly at all. This story aims to transform the way you think about love, passion, joy, and sacrifice.
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Transport yourself to Rome in Tom Rachman’s wry, vibrant debut "The Imperfectionists." The stories follow the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it—and themselves—afloat.
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