An isolated Romanian Jewish village tries to save itself from a war through sheer force of imagination - all at the suggestion of a young girl.  No One is a unique and creative novel, poetically written by a new young novelist.   Hardcover and  Google eBook. 

Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder
 

The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas.  "The two authors range over the entire 20th century, focusing on the ideas that shaped it rather than events . . . Essential reading for anyone who purports to be well educated.'' --Library Journal.   Hardcover and  Google eBook.   

Richard Mason     

History of a Pleasure Seeker is a brilliantly written portrait of the senses, a novel about pleasure and those who are in search of it; those who embrace it, luxuriate in it, need it; and those who deprive themselves of it as they do those they love. It is a book that will beguile and transport you-to another world, another time, another state of being.  Hardcover and  Google eBook.

Baratunde Thurston   

Mourning his mother, an American heiress who gave up the grandeur of her upbringing for "good works," Patrick finds that his transition to orphanhood may not be the liberation he had so long imagined.   "With lacerating humor and razor sharp imagery, St. Aubyn continues to work out his themes: the follies of the British upper class, the 'psychological impact of inherited wealth,' the complex dynamics between parent and child." -Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist Hardcover and  Google eBook.  

During the four years of physician Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and indiscriminately, determined to find her soul mate and live happily ever after. But then she discovered she had a brain aneurysm. She discovered it at a particularly awkward moment on a date with one of many Mr. Wrongs. Good in a Crisis is Overton's laugh-out-loud funny story of dealing with the most serious of life's problems: loss of life, loss of love, loss of innocence.  

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