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"A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic...
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""A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she...
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Cedar Ledge Publishing
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2022.
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Coming of age love story set in bucolic Greensboro, Vermont in the 1970s. Luke Simms is a farm boy with a low draft number awaiting his Army induction notice. Working for the local saw mill, he delivers a load of posts and beams to a fancy new cabin being built on the shore of Caspian Lake by a powerful federal judge. When he arrives, he meets the judge's daughter, Sarah, sitting cross-legged on the warm hood of her red 1967 Mustang convertible, and...
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