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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Clayton's life, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle on him: a promise...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
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Aubry Tourvel is 9 when she and her sisters, Pauline and Sylvie, stumble across a strange well in a courtyard secreted between empty apartment buildings. The well is made of smooth gray stone, and its opening has been carved to resemble a face. The siblings assume it's a wishing well, and because the papers are full of terrible news, each resolves to sacrifice something precious for the greater good. Pauline drops in a gold chain to stop the socialists...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1995, 24-year-old Russian scientist Ivan Volkov accepts a scholarship in astronomy at Beijing's Tsinghua University. After solving a notoriously tricky problem proposed by a 17th-century astronomer, Ivan is taken under the wing of professor Cao Lin, who convinces him to study satellites. During Ivan's schooling, he meets American student Edith Ryan, with whom he shares a brief romance. He then returns to Moscow, marries, fathers a son who grows...
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