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The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
Traveller's Tree
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Fermor
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Patrick Leigh Fermor's first book, “still the best piece of travel writing on the Caribbean,” (The Guardian) takes him to Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, and Haiti, among other islands. There he breaks bread with people rich and poor, befriends artists, listens to steel-drum bands, and comes across the then little-known religion: Rastafarianism.
Contributors: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro |
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A Traveller in Time
Traveller in Time
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Alison Uttley
Uttley
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Unbeknownst to her, Emily’s ancient ancestral home is a portal to the past. Transported to Elizabethan times, she is swept up in attempts to free the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots. Uttley is one of England’s most beloved storytellers for children. Here she mixes enchantment and intrigue with stunning descriptions of rural life.
Contributors: Phyllis Bray |
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Transit
Transit
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Anna Seghers
Seghers
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A young German concentration-camp escapee finds himself in Marseille with a cache of papers and travel documents belonging to another man—who just happens to be dead. “Anna Seghers in Transit has painted a grim and crowded picture of Marseille when it was still a port of possible escape for the fugitives of all Europe…[Transit’s] very air of confusion and blind groping is consonant with its theme.”—Christian Science Monitor
Contributors: Peter Conrad , Heinrich Böll , Margot Dembo |
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A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople:From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
Time of Gifts
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Fermor
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At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.
Contributors: Jan Morris |
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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
Three Christs of Ypsilanti
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Milton Rokeach
Rokeach
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In 1959 Milton Rokeach had a radical notion of how to treat three patients in his care—each of whom believed without a doubt that he was Jesus Christ—he would make them live together. In this novelistic case study, we see the three Christs argue, proclaim, and soliloquize about the nature of their divinity. “It represents, in an unpretentious but remarkably vivid way, what institutionalized madness is like.” —Steven Marcus, The New York Review of Books
Contributors: Rick Moody |
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The Wedding of Zein
The Wedding of Zein
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Tayeb Salih
Salih
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Salih returns to the Sudanese village that was the setting of Season of Migration to the North to tell a variety of tales—including the title story, in which the miraculous betrothal of the town fool unites its residents in unforeseen ways. "A long ululation for life, a hymn of love." —Ali al-Rai
Contributors: Hisham Matar , Denys Johnson-Davies |
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Terrible, Horrible Edie
Terrible, Horrible Edie
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E. C. Spykman
Spykman
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Ten-year-old Edie Cares is not really horrible or terrible, she just has a lot to contend with this summer, including two snooty brothers, a fancy-pants sister, and two stepsisters who are no better than babies. But when it comes to getting out of scrapes—never mind getting into them—Edie can more than hold her own. |
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The Sun King
Sun King
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Nancy Mitford
Mitford
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Nancy Mitford crafts a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, recreating the daily life of the King, his court, and his ministers during France’s golden age. “Nancy Mitford gives vivid, indeed searching, portraits of the Grand Monarch, and of his awe-struck relations and courtiers.... Readers will wish that her book were twice as long. —Sunday Times
Contributors: Philip Mansel |
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The Summer Book
Summer Book
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Tove Jansson
Jansson
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A grandmother and her granddaughter live out a summer of play, talk, love, and exploration on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland (also the setting for some of the author's Moomintroll tales). "A marvelous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny." —Philip Pullman
Contributors: Kathryn Davis , Thomas Teal |
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Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley
Store of the Worlds
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Robert Sheckley
Sheckley
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An original collection of stories from an overlooked master. “One of the few acknowledged humorists in SF, and by far the funniest, Sheckley plays with myths the way Mel Brooks plays with classic movies.”
—The New York Times Book Review
Contributors: Jonathan Lethem, Alex Abramovich |
