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Romain Rolland
A long novel sequence following the life of the musician Jean-Christophe. Passion for art, friendship, and political awareness all overlap, giving the work a range that goes beyond a simple coming-of-age story.
Cormac McCarthy
A father and son cross a burned-out America after an unnamed catastrophe, surviving on love, trust, and sheer will.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
A reportage account of the Green Zone in post-invasion Iraq, told from the perspective of a reporter who worked there. It vividly captures the confusion, bureaucracy, and disconnection from reality inside the protected zone.
Daniel Mendelsohn
Soon to be featured in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust , premiering on PBS September 18 th A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist “A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, a testimony to the enduring power of the ancient archetypes that haunt one Jewish family and the greater human family, The Lost is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.”—Michael Chabon In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history. The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust—an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates. That quest eventually takes him to a dozen countries on four continents and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. And it leads him, finally, back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's story began, and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him. Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with childhood memories of a now-lost generation of immigrant Jews and provocative ruminations on biblical texts and Jewish history, The Lost transforms the story of one family into a profound, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold on the past. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful, and beautifully written, this literary tour de force illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.
Gisèle Scanlon
A book by a new writer on women and lifestyle. Blending humour with personal observation, it presents self-discovery and a female perspective in an easy, lively tone.
Geoff Ryman
A novel about the cultural and social changes that follow when a remote village is connected to the new communications technology called Air. It traces how outside information reshapes daily life, memory, creativity, and the community itself.
M.T. Anderson
Raised in eighteenth-century Boston, Octavian comes to understand who he is while living inside an experiment run by scientists and the realities of slavery. Set against the American Revolution, the novel sharply examines intellect, violence, and the meaning of freedom.
Ian Buruma
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest went to Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam.
Tim Bowler
River Boy follows a boy helping his dying grandfather return to the river and finish a final painting.
Gene Luen Yang, Lark Pien
Three intersecting stories follow Jin Wang, the Monkey King, and Chin-Kee as they explore the discomfort and shifting self-image of life as an Asian American. Blending myth and school-story elements, the graphic novel rethinks how identity is formed.
David Wiesner
A wordless picture book that lets a single photograph lead into a whole underwater world. With every turn of the page, the gaze expands and imagination itself becomes the journey.
Oliver Jeffers
A whimsical picture book about a boy who tries to gain knowledge by eating books. Its humour and warmth celebrate the joy of reading and learning for young children.