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Laurie Boris Author Of Boychik

From Laurie's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Laurie's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Laurie Boris Why Laurie loves this book

My father, a WW2 buff, recommended this book to me very highly. I was equally entranced. The story beckoned and pulled me in completely. I never really knew the plight of the Jews in Hungary during WW2, so this broadened my historical knowledge while capturing my heart and imagination.

By Julie Orringer ,

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2 authors picked The Invisible Bridge as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

Paris, 1937. Andras Levi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young widow living in the city. When Andras meets Clara he is drawn deeply into her extraordinary and secret life, just as Europe's unfolding tragedy sends them both into a state of terrifying uncertainty.

From a remote Hungarian village to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labour camps and…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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From Paula's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Unknown Author Why Paula loves this book

Absorbing read, giving me a stark insight into a whole different world. Pacey, vivid and sometimes quite shocking, but I was on the side of the lead character the whole time.

By Barbara Kingsolver ,

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119 authors picked Demon Copperhead as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise.

In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn't an idea, it's as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn't an abstraction, it's neighbours, parents, and friends. 'Family' could mean love, or reluctant foster…


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