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The emperor of Ocean Park
Stephen L. Carter.
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657 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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The emperor's children
Claire Messud.
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431 p. ; 25 cm.
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The end of faith : religion, terror, and the future of reason
Sam Harris.
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336 p. ; 22 cm.
In the End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs -- even when these beliefs inspire the worst of human atrocities. Harris argues that in the presence of weapons of mass destruction we cannot expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, he argues that "moderation" in religion poses considerable dangers of its own, as the accommodation we have made to religious faith in our society now blinds us to the role that faith plays in perpetuating human conflict. While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris draws on insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and Eastern mysticism to deliver a call for a truly modern foundation for ethics and spirituality that is both secular and humanistic. Book jacket.
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L'épervier de Maheux : roman
Jean Carrière.
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319 p. ; 22 cm.
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L'éternité n'est pas de trop : Roman
François Cheng.
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246 p. ; 18 cm.
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Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton ; with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons.
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xxiv, 99 p. ; cm.
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L'étourdissement
Joël Egloff.
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140 p. ; 18 cm.
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Everything is illuminated : a novel
Jonathan Safran Foer.
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276 p. : port. ; 21 cm.
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
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Extremely loud & incredibly close
Jonathan Safran Foer.
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326 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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The faith club : a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew-- three women search for understanding
Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner.
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396 p. ; 22 cm.
Traces how three American women of different faiths worked together to understand one another while identifying the connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, during which they openly discussed the issues that divided them.
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Family matters
Rohinton Mistry.
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431 p. ; 24 cm.
Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson's disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs. Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons, who share a small, crowded home. Their decision will test not only their material resources but, in surprising ways, all their tolerance, compassion, integrity, and faith. Sweeping and intimate, tragic and mirthful, Family Matters is a work of enormous emotional power.
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The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
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404 p. ; 24 cm.
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