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My top read of 2025, Horse, by Geraldine Brooks, is an ambitious and masterfully written novel. I was a bit late to the party in reading Horse. How I wish I’d read this intelligent, artistic, and unforgettable book sooner. What lingers for me is Brooks’s exquisite use of language and careful braiding of time. Every word and sentence is brilliantly crafted with care. And she weaves 1850 Kentucky, 1950s New York, and contemporary Washington, DC as distinct stories, each amplifying the other, and resolving in a satisfying convergence.
"Brooks' chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling." -The New York Times Book Review
"Horse isn't just an animal story-it's a moving narrative about race and art." -TIME
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history
Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an…
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…
The Story was beautiful rendering of the beloved character we all know, Anne Frank, prior to her family's imprisonment by the Nazi regime. I really got to feel like I got to know the child although it was fiction. Alice Hoffman is an amazing author.
Bestselling author Alice Hoffman delivers a stunning novel about one of contemporary history's most acclaimed figures, exploring the little-known details of Anne Frank's life before she went into hiding.
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl has captivated and inspired readers for decades. Published posthumously by her bereaved father, Anne's journal, written while she and her family were in hiding during World War II, has become one of the central texts of the Jewish experience during the Holocaust, as well as a work of literary genius.
With the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the Frank family's life is turned…
