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American Passage_ The History o - Vincent J. Cannato
From School Library JournalStarred Review. Using a variety of primary sources, Cannato (_The Ungovernable City_) describes Ellis Island as a place and as an experience for the appr... -
Agincourt_ Henry v and the Batt - Juliet R. V. Barker
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Barker, a British biographer (_The Brontës_) and accomplished medievalist, brings an excellent synergy of academic and literary skills to thi.... -
Agaat - Marlene van Niekerk; Michiel He
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Van Niekerk follows the widely lauded Triomf with a dark, innovative epic that trudges through the depths of a South African farmwife's soul..... -
Aftertime - Sophie Littlefield
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Littlefield (A Bad Day for Pretty) turns what could be just another zombie apocalypse into a thoughtful and entertaining exploration of many t... -
Afterlife - Douglas Clegg
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Stoker-winner Clegg (_The Hour Before Dark_) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers by chronicling everyday characters' perilous descents ... -
Act of Will - A. J. Hartley
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. As 18-year-old orphaned actor Will Hawthorne explains early on in this clever page-turner, I don't want you thinking you're going to get a ... -
Acacia_ Book One_ The War with - David Anthony Durham
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In this sprawling and vividly imagined fantasy, historical novelist Durham (_Pride of Carthage_) chronicles the downfall and reinvention... -
A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This memoir/family history brims over with riches: metaphors and poetry, drama and comedy, failure and success, unhappy marriages and a wealth... -
A Pale Horse - Charles Todd
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The exemplary 10th Inspector Ian Rutledge historical whodunit (after A False Mirror) offers tight plotting and rich characterization amid und.... -
A History of the World in 6 Gla - Tom Standage
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Standage starts with a bold hypothesis—that each epoch, from the Stone Age to the present, has had its signature beverage—and takes readers on...