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• Palace Walk

  Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006

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  “The alleys, the houses, the palaces and mosques and the people who live among them are evoked as vividly in Mahfouz’s work as the streets of London were conjured up by Dickens.” - Newsweek

• The Eighth Life (for Brilka)

  Haratischwili, Nino, 1983-

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  “Something rather extraordinary happened. The world fell away and I fell, wholly, happily, into the book… My breath caught in my throat, tears nestled in my lashes… devastatingly brilliant.” - The New York Times Book Review

• French Braid

  Tyler, Anne

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  "No one handles multi-character gatherings better than Baltimore-based Anne Tyler. . . . [this book] . . . delivers a welcome variety of distractions from the worry and anguish of the present world. . . . The novel's strength is in the delightful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pachinko

  Lee, Min Jin

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  "An exquisite, haunting epic...'moments of shimmering beauty and some glory, too,' illuminate the narrative...Lee's profound novel...is shaped by impeccable research, meticulous plotting, and empathic perception." - Booklist

• We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies

  a Novel

  Lama, Tsering Yangzom

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  “Newly orphaned and stranded in a Nepalese refugee camp after fleeing Chinese invaders, the Tibetan sisters must navigate an unknown world. Lama… brings a personal perspective to the plight of refugees and immigrants as they try to assimilate while…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• SUITE FRANCAISE

  Nemirovsky, Irene

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  "An incisive, heartbreaking portrait of a small French town under seige, and the people trying to survive, even to live, as Hitler’s horrors march closer and closer to their doors.... A masterpiece of observation and character study, a standout of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

  a Novel

  Marra, Anthony

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  “A flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles....Here, in fresh, graceful prose, is a profound story that dares to be as tender as it is ghastly, a story about desperate lives in a remote land that will quickly seem…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book Thief

  Zusak, Markus

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  "Exquisitely written and memorably populated, Zusak's poignant tribute to words, survival, and their curiously inevitable entwinement is a tour de force to be not just read but inhabited." - The Horn Book Magazine, Starred

• We Were the Lucky Ones

  Hunter, Georgia, 1978-

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  “[A] remarkable history . . . Hunter sidesteps hollow sentimentality and nihilism, revealing instead the beautiful complexity and ambiguity of life in this extraordinarily moving tale.” - Publishers Weekly

• The Anatomy of Hope

  How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

  Groopman, Jerome E.

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  “Provocative and important . . . a book about healing and life . . . Groopman . . . writes with a clear, crisp, unpretentious prose that keeps the reader interested and the pages turning. Like Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, he is a master…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Emperor of All Maladies

  a Biography of Cancer

  Mukherjee, Siddhartha

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  “A brilliant, riveting history of the disease . . . Threaded throughout, and propelling the narrative forward, are the affecting tales of Mukherjee’s own patients.” - Entertainment Weekly

• Dear Life

  a Doctor's Story of Love and Loss

  Clarke, Rachel (Physician)

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  "A truly beautiful book about death and life and the price of love. Told by a doctor, with compassion and wisdom. I cried, but they were warm, comforting tears. It made me think about stuff I fear in a new and better way. A touching and profound…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Intern

  a Doctor's Initiation

  Jauhar, Sandeep, 1968-

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  "In Jauhar's wise memoir of his two-year ordeal of doubt and sleep deprivation at a New York hospital, he takes readers to the heart of every young physician's hardest test: to become a doctor yet remain a human being." - Time