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Summary: Argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing on the deep vocabulary of human feeling to provide a realistic account of the grown-up dignity of Christian experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Summary: A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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Summary: The Soviet Union was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. This book is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2012
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Summary: "Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: "New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won't explain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2017