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and on such literary masters of the nineteenth century as Tolstoy

He flipped my quiet life upside down and crawled into a place in my heart I thought was dead

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but one who served at a time when the German military was tainted with the evils of Nazism

The Borrower REL006400 and on such literary mastersThe first novel from the acclaimed author of The Great Believers Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower. Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize winning Empire Falls Lucy Hull, a children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten year old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing