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A Visit from the Goon Squad tells the life stories of Bennie Salazar, a record executive, and his assistant, the kleptomaniac Sasha. In chapters that take us from the present to the past and to the future, we meet the people who influenced their lives, as well as a host of other characters that have their own stories to tell.

Victoria Jones grew up in the foster-care system and has difficulty forming meaningful relationships with those in her life, until she learns to communicate through flowers and their meanings.

Katey and Eve are two attractive young professional women rooming together at a boarding house in New York City. On New Years Eve, 1937, they have a chance encounter with the intriguing and wealthy Tinker Grey at a Greenwich Village Jazz club. This encounter impacts the girls’ lives, especially Katey’s, in unexpected ways.

Rules of Civility is told in reminiscence by the middle-aged Katey when she sees photographs of Tinker in an art show exhibit in the 1960′s.

Dr. Marina Singh, a 42 year old research scientist for a large pharmaceutical firm, is dispatched to the Brazilian rainforest to recover the body of a colleague, Anders Eckman. Eckman had been sent to the Amazon to check on Dr. Annick Swenson, an eccentric and elusive doctor, developing a miraculous top-secret drug.

On July 16-17, 1942, thousands of French police, in collaboration with the Nazis, gathered up 12,884 Parisian Jews, including children, in one of the most brutal and overt deportation operations orchestrated by the Nazi regime.

Major Pettigrew’s last stand is about the charming relationship between a proper Englishman and an independent Pakistani shopkeeper.

The Weird Sisters is about three sisters who were each named after famous Shakespearean women by their fanatical dad. They reunite at their parent’s home after their mother is diagnosed with cancer.

  This book is about a boy with a keen attention to details, trying to figure out how the world works as he tries to solve the mystery of a murdered dog. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted [...]

In Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin, Eilis Lacey lives with her mother and fashionable older sister, Rose, in a small rural Irish community in the 1950′s. Rose, with the help of an Irish priest visiting from America, arranges for Eilis to leave Ireland for Brooklyn.

On August 7, 1974, the streets of New York City were brought to a standstill in the early morning light. A small figure was spotted a quarter of a mile up walking, running, dancing, jumping, and laying down on a high wire suspended between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Funambulist Philippe Petit’s daring and death-defying high wire performance, which he called “le coup,” took many months of training and planning to execute. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann is not, however, Petit’s story; but it is his astounding feat that threads the novel’s major characters together in most unexpected ways.