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""There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only ... A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books." Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes...
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"Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath...
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For Christy and Kevin Beam, faith meant one foot in front of the other as they lived life in the shadow of their middle daughter Annabel's devastating illness. Diagnosed with an incurable, life-threatening disorder, little Anna persevered through years of pain and invasive testing and treatments. Her childlike faith inspired everyone around her, but Christy's heart shattered when an exhausted Anna finally told her, "Mommy, I just want to go to Heaven...