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In Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa gives his readers access to former President Manuel A. Odria’s dictatorship in Peru in the early...
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Robin McKinley (’75, H ‘86) is a Bowdoin alum and Newberry Award winner. I discovered McKinley’s writing when at the college bookstore to buy, for my...
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I love electronic readers, and pleased that Hawthorne-Longfellow Library has loaded Kindles and Sony EReaders with a variety of books. I also love short...
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In Bel Canto , Ann Patchett explores how people of different nationalities, ages and interests interact when isolated from the outside world. The book...
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Wallace Stegner's novels portray the lives and passions of early settlers of the American West. They paint a vivid and eloquent picture of the hardships,...
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The book is a very thorough look-through of the English language and how it has developed. It covers everything from why "one" is pronounced "won" and not...
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