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This stranger, his bizarre story—if it is to be believed—and the apparent murder of the local shaman quickly become a flashpoint for this village: temperatures rise, alliances shift, and betrayals emerge. Written with a commanding historical authority and remarkable grace, The People’s Act of Love is an epic of desire and sacrifice that leaves the reader utterly mesmerized through to the final heart-pounding pages.</div>]]> 29844 3.51 528 149 2005 2077497 184195988X 9781841959887 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1205696183m/2077497.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1205696183s/2077497.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2077497.We_Are_Now_Beginning_Our_Descent 2.96 56 The People’s Act of Love comes the incisive and timeless story of a globe-trotting journalist’s perils in the pursuit of love, set against the war zones and dinner parties of today’s discordant and bewildering world stage.

The world around journalist and would-be novelist Adam Kellas is cracking. As a war correspondent in the Afghan mountains during post-9/11 operations, Kellas reports on prescheduled surgical strikes with a nagging sense of complicity. At dinner parties in chic North London, he uneasily joins the debate of the wars from the comfort of their immaculate dinner tables. Divorced, unstable, spurned by his lover and publishing houses from Paris to New York, Kellas embarks on a strange and difficult journey that will lead him to a tiny rural town near the Chesapeake Bay. There, the elusive American reporter Astrid, with whom Kellas shared one passionate night, waits for him, holding a glimmer of hope for Kellas’ life but also an unsettling secret.

We Are Now Beginning Our Descent spans continents, cultures, and classes, brilliantly weaving together the hypocrisies, foibles, and passions of the way we live now.]]> 29844 3.51 528 149 2008 1049680 1841958085 9781841958088 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180516288m/1049680.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180516288s/1049680.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1049680.The_Museum_of_Doubt 3.40 5 29844 3.51 528 149 2000 3069486 1847670296 9781847670298 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212596809m/3069486.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212596809s/3069486.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3069486.Drivetime 3.00 2 They say you can't leave your troubles behind. Alan hops towns and countries with ease, but no matter where he stops for gas, everything's the same--people, news, conflicts, goals, and his soft, awkward, cold self. It takes a lot of miles and coincidences and wrong turns before Alan is willing to be Alan. It's like Bill Murray's Groundhog Day on European wheels--La Grand Tour gone very wrong. Refreshing and innovative and very funny, James Meek's continental blast exemplifies the new literary energy coming out of Scotland and is an entertaining read, a perfect companion for a European tour.

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