Beatrice & Virgil

Beatrice & VirgilBy: Yann Martel Yann Martels astonishing novel begins with a successful writer attempting to publish his latest book, made up of a novel and an essay. Henry plans for it to be a flip book that the reader can start at either end, reading the novel or the essay first, because both pieces are equally concerned with representations of the Holocaust. Faced with severe and categorical rejection, Henry gives up hope. He abandons writing, moves with his wife

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cunning Aphrodite must find a way to outwit her opponents in a high-stakes beauty contest

French spins a taut tale of retribution

“A brilliantly playful and haunting novel

But Alice's campaign posters are torn down and painted over―and the same thing happens to her opponent

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an ambitious Hollywood starlet contacted by Helen

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Author Gail Herman presents both sides of the debate in this fact-based

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When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered

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