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Back when he was young, Michael Beard was a brilliant scientist. His work earned him a Nobel Prize in physics at age forty. But that was then. Now he coasts on past glory, barely managing a research center focused on renewable energy. Five failed marriages behind him, increasingly overweight, Beard is a man in decline...
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Oliver is a graphic designer living in Los Angeles. Thirty-eight years old and perpetually sad. His father just died of lung cancer. Four years before that, his mother succumbed to the same disease. Right after her death, Hal came out as gay. At seventy-five, he finally admitted who he really was...
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Real poetry should hurt. Like finding a razor blade in your handkerchief and slicing your nose. The dance here is life's great farandole, told by a cunning old man whose memories spill out in one continuous breath. No periods. No paragraphs. Just pure stream-of-consciousness storytelling that pulls you along...
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Tehran, present day. Nader and Simin are educated, westernized, comfortable. She teaches, he works at a bank. But Simin can't stand Iran anymore and wants to emigrate. Her husband refuses. His elderly father has Alzheimer's and needs care. Their daughter is caught between them...
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Don't let the mundane consume your existence. You must read, Sara Susanne. Read everything. A century separates the author's birth from her great-grandmother's: 1842 to 1942. Finding an old portrait sparked this excavation of family history. Four generations of Norwegian women, their struggles and survival...
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Mack and Vonnie met at a Wyoming ranch. He was the rancher's son, she came from back East. A bear hunt brought them together. They fell in love, got married. But ten years of desperate scrambling to save the family ranch wore them down. The marriage couldn't survive the financial strain...
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The absence of things matters more than their presence. I waited five years for this book after falling hard for The History of Love. Krauss uses the same narrative technique here: multiple storylines slowly revealing their hidden connections. An antique desk with nineteen drawers links disparate lives across continents and decades...
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We debated. Should we see it for Woody or skip it because of you-know-who? Our love for Allen won out. Started rough with the postcard montage of Paris landmarks. But then the magic kicks in. A screenwriter stuck in the present discovers a way to slip into the 1920s every midnight...
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