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Russell J. Sanders Author Of An Angry God

From Russell's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Russell J. Sanders Why Russell loves this book

Julia Alvarez is a treasure! I loved, in this book, the way she dealt with characters that were long dead--many of them real people. I also loved her viewpoint as the author.

By Julia Alvarez ,

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1 author picked The Cemetery of Untold Stories as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies , returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling that will be an instant classic.Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories , doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold…


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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

Book cover of The Shah of Texas

Russell J. Sanders Author Of An Angry God

From Russell's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Russell's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Russell J. Sanders Why Russell loves this book

A funny, funny satire! Green's writing is fresh and imaginative, direct, and hilarious.

By Charlie Green ,

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1 author picked The Shah of Texas as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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The Shah of Texas brings the absurdity of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to early-2000s revelations of torture at Abu Ghraib. In the novel, Texas has declared itself anindependent nation from the United States and installed a Shah as its head of state. After years of war between Texas and America, journalist Adiel S.Thomas has uncovered torture by Texan soldiers. The Shah's government, led by the demi-Shah Dick Dick Dick Dick Dick and his silent assistant Scheissetete, scrambles to bury the news-and Adiel herself. Her investigations take her into the underbelly of the venal, violent Texan government…


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