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"I loved this book. It's just a really good story about 2 generations of women craft brewing beer, but it also a story about how we are not alone in the world. I loved Mr. Stradal's first book Kitchens of the Great Midwest and this one doesn't disa..."
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A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading. Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the...
In the dazzling glitter of 1900 Vienna, Adele Bloch-Bauer, young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish, meets painter Gustav Klimt. Wealthy in everything but freedom, Adele embraces Klimt's renegade genius as the two awaken to the erotic possibilities...
The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.
In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940, he would be dead of a heart attack. Those last three years of Fitzgerald's...