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Newsletter #135

April 17, 2017

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2 books featured in this issue

Cover of Compass

Compass

by Mathias Énard

MADE-UP

Énard has become one of France's leading novelists by writing about the Mediterranean as a crossroads of cultures—East and West, North and South—and Compass, which won the Prix Goncourt, France's most... (Tom)

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Town Is by the Sea

by Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith

MADE-UP

A boy imagines his day, and his father's day, in a small town by the sea. He plays with a friend, eats a baloney sandwich, runs an errand for his mother, looks out at the ocean, while his father works... (Tom)

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