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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Books, 9781594489501, $25.95
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
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| | Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
Andrew Ferguson
Grove Press, 9780802143617, $14.00
As the author gleefully notes in the preface of this volume more books have been written about Abraham Lincoln that any other American nearly fourteen thousand in all. With grace, insight, and great good humor Ferguson travels the blue highways in an attempt to discover the stories behind our fascination with the 16th president. During the course of the journey readers come to know a Lincoln that was an icon, an enigma, an intimate, and an enemy. And it is a journey well worth taking honest! -- Joe Drabyak and Craig Miller
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The Visible World
Mark Slouka
Mariner Books, 9780547053677, $13.95
Like any avid reader I have created, from a lifetime of volumes, an internal list of my very favorites. Rarely will a new book find its way into my top ten. The Visible World, however, has leapfrogged all others into my top three. At its heart, this is a powerful, deeply romantic story of a man child of Czech immigrants trying to identify the missing pieces in the emotional lives of his parents. It is storytelling without equal and flawless in its execution. Joe Drabyak
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| | The Arrival
Shaun Tan
Arthur A. Levine Books, 9780439895293, $19.99
An astonishing wordless graphic novel blends historical imagery with science-fiction elements to depict brilliantly the journey of an immigrant man from his terror-beset land of origin to a new, more peaceful home. Kirkus Reviews
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