Sometimes, it's not the author you choose, it's the translator. So we've picked three novels where the translation will help you discover new things about the text, even if you can read the original.
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Doerr's follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All The Light We Cannot See follows five young people, each living in dangerous times across the span of eight centuries.
Cloud Cuckoo Land follows four people in very different times and places, all connected by an imaginary manuscript — also called "Cloud Cuckoo Land" — by a real author, the philosopher Diogenes.
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UnCovered Review by Connie Blankenbuehler, ACLS Pleasantville Branch
Ms. Brown has again provided the reading public with a pleasurable read!
Blind Tiger takes you back in time to the Prohibition Era with moonshiners, a cowboy, questionable lawmen and civic personalities and, of course, a strong female character to twist the plot together.
Laurel Plummer finds herself relocated to Foley, Texas, and living with a father-in-law who did not know of her existence upon arrival. Together they partner to survive in hard times. A returning war soldier, Thatcher Hutton, in search of his previous cowboy life, comes to town. He immediately encounters Ms. Plummer and becomes the town suspect in a murder. Corrupt lawmen and other local personalities -who are all somehow involved with the flow of moonshine- contribute to a suspenseful, entertaining read.
Altogether, Believing is an elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors.
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