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★★★★☆ American musicals pervade our lives whether we attend them in a theatre or not. Songs have transitioned from their places in their shows into our daily life, often without our knowing their original...
★★★★☆ “This is the story of the life and daydreams of Mevlut Karataş, a seller of boza and yogurt.” Thus begins A Strangeness in My Mind, the story of a 12-year old boy who...
★★★★★ The one Great Inevitability is that everyone dies. The end result is the same, but the manner in which one is allowed to take leave of this corporeal world makes all the difference...
★★★★☆ At its mouth the Amazon River is a gargantuan, powerful river, sending a plume of fresh water up to 120 miles wide more than 250 miles into the Atlantic Ocean. Leave the mouth...
★★★★☆ If you love language and how it works this is the book for you. You may not become a better writer or speaker for having read it, but you will recognize and better...
★★★☆☆ There was a time when people said that schools on the whole were “good.” Schools were supported by parents and multiple generations grew up in the same schools where teachers had already taught...
★★★★☆ Jowher Ile’s And After Many Days opens upon an unremarkable day like so many others filled with the humdrum minutiae of quotidian life. The incessant rain had finally stopped, and the older brother,...
★★★★☆ In Toyne’s The Searcher, mysterious stranger walks toward town. He has no memory of anything but the road. Wearing a bespoke suit, he is barefooted as he walks then runs away from the...
★★★★☆ Sharyn McCrumb may be known best for her “Ballad Novels” set in the mountains of western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, and her magnificent St. Dale, a Chaucerian tribute to the late Dale...
