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In a small village in the mountains of Andalusia, a French woman begins to write a memoir of the man she once knew and loved in Beirut. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin's most well kept secret: the identity of a highly placed mole. When an important asset to Israel, a high ranking Russian officer, wants to defect, things go horribly wrong. Israel's team has been vetted, but the operation was jointly run with London's MI6. Somewhere, there is a leak. Only one man can unravel the mystery: the head of Israel's secret intelligence service and art restorer Gabriel Allon.
Eitan Green, a neurosurgeon living in a small city in Israel, is out driving his SUV in the desert late at night when he accidentally hits and kills an illegal Eritrean immigrant. He leaves the scene, returns to his home where his wife, a police detective, and his two sons are sound asleep, and unknowingly sets off a series of unexpected, sometimes dangerous, events. From that night on, Eitan's life is one lie after another. And each new happening means he has to cover his tracks more scrupulously.
Waking Lions has it all-great writing, suspense, fleshed-out characters and moral dilemmas. Furthermore, it brings up themes of guilt, the Mideast conflict, illegal immigrants and how well do we truly know ourselves or others. I eagerly await Gundar-Goshen's second novel.
In 1967 Willa Drake is eleven years old and living with a younger sister, a kind-hearted, gentle father and a bipolar mother. In 1977 she comes home with her soon to be husband, Derek. In 1997 Willa becomes a young widow with two teenage sons. And in 2017 she has remarried and moved to Tucson when a phone call from a stranger sends her to Baltimore. Like many of Tyler's characters, Willa wants to please everyone, which is impossible. Like most of Anne Tyler's novels, Clock Dance is filled with quirky, heart-warming characters. The neighborhood Willa visits in Baltimore has its share of endearing, well-meaning sorts. Although I don't think this is one of Tyler's best, it is worth a read. It's engaging and fun with a likeable main character.
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The latest book from Ms. Cannon, author of The Trouble With Goats and Sheep, is the story of 84 year-old Florence and her friend Elsie. Florence has fallen in her assisted living home and spends the time as she waits for someone to find her thinking about her life and friendship with Elsie. This is a beautifully written tale, full of humor and poignancy that shouldn't be missed.
The Great Believers is a two part story that alternates between Chicago in the late 1980's and early 1990's and Paris in 2015. The Chicago part focuses on Yale Tishman, a gay young man-his job, his friends and how he and his community were affected by the AIDS epidemic. The main character in the Paris sections is Fiona Marcus. Her brother was one of the first of Yale's friends to die from AIDS, and because of this, she becomes a champion for gay equality. She is in Paris searching for her daughter and granddaughter. It took me about fifty pages to get into The Great Believers. There are a lot of male characters, and, in the beginning, I kept mixing them up. However, once I was clear about who was who, I couldn't stop reading. Stay with it; it's well worth it. The Great Believers artistically depicts important issues and memorable characters.
Kristin Hannah has a vast following of readers, and we are among them. We were not disappointed in the new novel coming from her this month. The Allbright family, Ernt, Cora, and Leni, has been touched by war, and Leni, a thirteen year old girl, is growing up in a violent home. Ernt has come back from Vietnam and has a temper that can bubble up at any moment. When an army buddy dies and leaves Ernt his land and home in the Alaskan frontier, it is just the new start that they need. But like in most situations, their problems follow them, and Cora and Leni are still fearful for their lives, now with civilization cut off from them. With her characteristic flair, Ms. Hannah weaves a heart-wrenching story you won't soon forget and won't want to end.
