{"id":6121,"date":"2021-06-29T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/?p=6121"},"modified":"2021-06-29T00:01:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T00:01:43","slug":"summer-reading-is-here-check-out-our-library-employee-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/2021\/06\/29\/summer-reading-is-here-check-out-our-library-employee-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading is Here! Check out our Library Employee Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Matadors! Summer is here and that means the University Library has Summer reading picks for you! Check out our employee recommendations! You are bound to discover many interesting reads that include fiction, non-fiction, and award-winning titles. All of the books are available through the University Library,<\/a> LAPL, <\/a>or LA County Library<\/a>. Happy Summer Reading!<\/p>\n

\"manGray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America’s First Cyber Spy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

by Eric O’Neill<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eric O\u2019Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI\u2019s top target, a man suspected of spying for the Russians for nearly two decades, giving up nuclear secrets, compromising intelligence, and betraying US assets. With zero training in face-to-face investigation, O\u2019Neill found himself in a windowless, high-security office in the newly formed Information Assurance Section, tasked officially with helping the FBI secure its outdated computer system against hackers and spies\u2014and unofficially with collecting evidence against his new boss, Robert Hanssen, an exacting and rage-prone veteran agent with a fondness for handguns. In the months that follow, O\u2019Neill\u2019s self-esteem and young marriage unravel under the pressure of life in Room 9930, and he questions the very purpose of his mission. But as Hanssen outmaneuvers an intelligence community struggling to keep up with the new reality of cybersecurity, he also teaches O\u2019Neill the game of spycraft. The student will just have to learn to outplay his teacher if he wants to win.<\/p>\n

A tension-packed stew of power, paranoia, and psychological manipulation, Gray Day<\/em> is also a cautionary tale of how the United States allowed Russia to become dominant in cyberespionage\u2014and how we might begin to catch up. Description by Penguin Random House. Recommended by Jackie Zak. Access: LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"The Night Watchmen<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Louise Erdrich<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and New York Times<\/em> Bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new \u201cemancipation\u201d bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn\u2019t about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a \u201ctermination\u201d that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans \u201cfor as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run\u201d? Since graduating high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that barely pays her enough to support her mother and brother. Patrice\u2019s shameful alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children and bully her for money.<\/p>\n

But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn\u2019t been in touch in months, and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence, and endangers her life.<\/p>\n

Thomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue, her niece and Patrice\u2019s best friend Valentine, and Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice.<\/p>\n

In The\u00a0Night Watchman<\/em>, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman<\/em> is a majestic work of fiction from this revered cultural treasure. Description by Harper Collins Publishers. Recommended by Gina Flores. Access: <\/span>University Library,<\/a> LAPL,<\/a> and <\/span>LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"backsideThe Handmaid’s Tale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Margaret Atwood<\/strong><\/p>\n

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.<\/p>\n

Like Aldous Huxley\u2019s Brave New World<\/em> and George Orwell\u2019s Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>, The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant. Description by Penguin Random House. Recommended by April Feldman.\u00a0 Access: University Library<\/a>, LAPL<\/a>, and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BlackBlack Sun<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Rebecca Roanhorse<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nominated for the 2021 Hugo Awards and the 2020 Nebula Awards for best novel<\/strong><\/p>\n

A god will return
\nWhen the earth and sky converge
\nUnder the black sun<\/p>\n

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man\u2019s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain.<\/p>\n

Crafted with unforgettable characters, Rebecca Roanhorse has created an epic adventure exploring the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts in the most original series debut of the decade. Description by Simon & Schuster. Recommended by Laura Wimberley. Access:\u00a0LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AfricanVanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

by Martha S. Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women’s movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own.<\/p>\n

In Vanguard<\/em>, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women\u2014Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more\u2014who were the vanguard of women’s rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals. Description by Basic Books Imprints. Recommended by Jackie Zak. Access: LAPL<\/a>, and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"cloudsAll the Light We Cannot See<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Anthony Doerr<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; A New York Times<\/em> Book Review Top Ten Book; A National Book Award finalist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure\u2019s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum\u2019s most valuable and dangerous jewel.<\/p>\n

In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Description by Simon & Schuster. Recommended by Allan Gilbert. Access: University Library,<\/a> LAPL<\/a>, and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"boyThe Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

by Heather C. McGhee<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times<\/em> Bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heather McGhee\u2019s specialty is the American economy\u2014and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common root problem: racism. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?<\/p>\n

McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm\u2014the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country\u2014from parks and pools to functioning schools\u2014have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world\u2019s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.<\/p>\n

But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls\u00a0the Solidarity Dividend: gains that come when people come together across race, to accomplish what we simply can\u2019t do on our own.<\/p>\n

The Sum of Us<\/em>\u00a0is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing, materially rich but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. McGhee marshals economic and sociological research to paint an irrefutable story of racism\u2019s costs, but at the heart of the book are the humble stories of people yearning to be part of a better America, including white supremacy\u2019s collateral victims: white people themselves. With startling empathy, this heartfelt message from a Black woman to a multiracial America leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game. Description by Simon & Schuster. Recommended by Jackie Zak. Access: University Library,<\/a> LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"girlMexican Gothic<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times<\/em> Bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noem\u00ed Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She\u2019s not sure what she will find\u2014her cousin\u2019s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noem\u00ed knows little about the region.<\/p>\n

Noem\u00ed is also an unlikely rescuer: She\u2019s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she\u2019s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin\u2019s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noem\u00ed; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi\u2019s dreams with visions of blood and doom.<\/p>\n

Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family\u2019s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noem\u00ed, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family\u2019s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family\u2019s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noem\u00ed digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.<\/p>\n

And Noem\u00ed, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind. Description by Penguin Random House. Recommended by Jamie Johnson. Access: LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"womenThe Island of Sea Women: A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Lisa See<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times<\/em> Bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village\u2019s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook\u2019s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility\u2014but also danger.<\/p>\n

Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences.\u00a0The Island of Sea Women\u00a0takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of\u00a0haenyeo\u00a0and will inherit her mother\u2019s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. Description by Simon & Schuster. Recommended by Jackie Zak. Access: University Library,<\/a> LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"HenryThe Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers: A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Margaret George<\/strong><\/p>\n

Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and neglected his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; who finally grew fat, disease-ridden, dissolute.<\/p>\n

Now, in her magnificent work of storytelling and imagination Margaret George bring us Henry VIII’s story as he himself might have told it, in memoirs interspersed with irreverent comments from his jester and confident, Will Somers. Brilliantly combining history, wit, dramatic narrative, and an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power, this monumental novel shows us Henry the man more vividly than he has ever been seen before. Description by Macmillan Publishers. Recommended by April Feldman. Access: LAPL<\/a>, and LA County<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Hood Feminism<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Mikki Kendall<\/strong><\/p>\n

All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few.<\/p>\n

Meeting basic needs is a feminist issue. Food insecurity, the living wage and access to education are feminist issues. The fight against racism, ableism and transmisogyny are all feminist issues.<\/p>\n

White feminists often fail to see how race, class, sexual orientation and disability intersect with gender. How can feminists stand in solidarity as a movement when there is a distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?<\/p>\n

Insightful, incendiary and ultimately hopeful,\u00a0Hood Feminism\u00a0is both an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux and also clear-eyed assessment of how to save it. Description by Bloomsbury. Recommended by Claire Gordon. Access:\u00a0University Library,<\/a> LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"twoThe Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Janice P. Nimura<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times<\/em> Bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of “ordinary” womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.<\/p>\n

Exploring the sisters\u2019 allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women\u2019s rights\u2014or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, “a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now.” Description by W.W. Norton. Recommended by Jackie Zak. Access: LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"personProject Hail Mary: A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Andy Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times<\/em> Bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ryland\u00a0Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission\u2014and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.<\/p>\n

Except that right now, he doesn\u2019t know that. He can\u2019t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.<\/p>\n

All he knows is that he\u2019s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he\u2019s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.<\/p>\n

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it\u2019s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery\u2014and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.<\/p>\n

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he\u2019s got to do it all alone.<\/p>\n

Or does he?<\/p>\n

An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver,\u00a0Project Hail Mary\u00a0is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival\u00a0The Martian\u2014while taking us to places it never dreamed of going. Description by Penguin Random House. Recommended by Allan Gilbert. Access: LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Let Me Tell You What I Mean<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Joan Didion<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times<\/em> Bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n

These twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion\u2019s incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as \u201can articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time\u201d (The New York Times<\/em> Book Review).<\/p>\n

Here, Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers (\u201cthe problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it\u201d), to the fantasy of San Simeon, to not getting into Stanford. In \u201cWhy I Write,\u201d Didion ponders the act of writing: \u201cI write entirely to find out what I\u2019m thinking, what I\u2019m looking at, what I see and what it means.\u201d From her admiration for Hemingway\u2019s sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewart\u2019s story is one \u201cthat has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men,\u201d these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient. Description by Penguin Random House. Recommended by Jackie Zak. Access: LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"twoThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Mark Twain<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the most beloved and influential books in American literature, Mark Twain\u2019s\u00a0The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>\u00a0is a comic yet incisive portrait of 19th century America. Told from the perspective of Huck Finn, a good-hearted if wayward thirteen-year-old, it vividly recounts his adventures as he escapes his abusive home and embarks on a journey down the Mississippi River along with Jim, a runaway slave. Through the eyes of Huck, and particularly his relationship with Jim, Twain confronts the hypocrisy of a society that clings to slavery and entrenched racial prejudice while claiming to be the land of the free. Description by Simon & Schuster. Recommended by April Feldman. Access: University Library,<\/a>\u00a0 LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"snakeSqueeze Me<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Carl Hiaasen<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times<\/em> Bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the height of Palm Beach\u2019s charity ball season, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a prominent member of geriatric high society, suddenly vanishes during a swank gala. Kiki Pew was a founding member of the Potussies, a group of women dedicated to supporting the President, who spends half the year at the \u201cWinter White House\u201d just down the road. Meanwhile, Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, is called to the island to deal with a monster-sized\u00a0Burmese python that has taken residency in a tree. But the President is focused on the disappearance of Kiki Pew. Never one to miss an opportunity to play to his base, he immediately declares her a victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, it turns out, is far from the truth, which now lies in the middle of the road, where a bizarre discovery brings the First Lady\u2019s motorcade to a grinding halt. Irreverent, ingenious, and uproariously entertaining,\u00a0Squeeze Me<\/em>\u00a0perfectly captures the absurdity of our times. Description by Penguin Random House. Recommended by Jackie Zak. Access: LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"castleThe Name of the Rose<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Umberto Eco<\/strong><\/p>\n

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and nights of apocalyptic terror.<\/p>\n

Brother William turns detective, and a uniquely deft one at that. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon–all sharpened to a glistening edge by his wry humor and ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where “the most interesting things happen at night.”<\/p>\n

As Brother William goes about unraveling the mystery of what happens at the abbey by day and by night, listeners step into a brilliant re-creation of the fourteenth century, with its dark superstitions and wild prejudices, its hidden passions and sordid intrigues. Virtuoso storyteller Umberto Eco conjures up a gloriously rich portrait of this world with such grace, ease, wit and love that you will become utterly intoxicated with the place and time, in The Name of the Rose. Description by\u00a0 Macmillan Publishers. Recommended by April Feldman. Access: University Library,<\/a> LAPL,<\/a> and <\/span>LA County Library<\/a><\/p>\n

\"manBorges and Me<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by Jay Parini<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In 1971 Jay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland; he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War. One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he could play host for a \u201cvisiting Latin American writer\u201d while he attended to business in London. He agreed\u2013and that \u201cwriter\u201d turned out to be the blind and aged and eccentric master of literary compression and metaphysics, Jorge Luis Borges. About whom Jay Parini knew precisely nothing. What ensued was a seriocomic romp across the Scottish landscape that Borges insisted he must \u201csee,\u201d all the while declaiming and reciting from the literary encyclopedia that was his head, and Jay Parini\u2019s eventual reckoning with his vocation and personal fate. Description by Penguin Random House. Recommended by Jackie Zak. Access: LAPL,<\/a> and LA County Library<\/a><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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