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The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia . . . and also, somehow, the story of ten thousand years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Rovar Ákos Pfliegman-unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.
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"A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination...
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Elderly Hungarian matriarch Nana Vancy still regrets the "curse" she issued when she was young and in love with Bela Salo who failed to show up their wedding on time due to an accident. Now decades later her misgivings turn to fear as she worries about bad things happening at Salo family weddings and sets out to defeat the curse.
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Heather Rayson runs a community-based day-care program at the local retirement center that Isabel and Annabelle now live in. Heather's unsure what to make of Nana Vancy when Annabelle and Isabel bring her around, but she soon decides that the three older ladies are up to something. It takes a little longer for her to realize that what they're up to is trying to fix her up with Professor Hanson. Heather's not against the idea of dating, and she certainly...
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Green Sea of Darkness takes place in the eighties of the previous century. It begins in Greenwich Village, then moves to Paris, England, and back to France. Interwoven in the action Irishness prevails. Gwenole is the son of a Hungarian refugee and an Irish mother. He wants to write but in the meantime becomes a member of the Irish Republican Army. The birth of a writer is accompanied by the gradual demolition of the budding writer.
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"The name George Soros is recognized around the world. Universally known for his decades of philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success, he is equally well-known as the nemesis of the right--the target of sustained attacks from national populists, authoritarian regimes, and anti-Semites in the United States and around the world--because of his commitment to open society, freedom of the press, and liberal democracy. Named the Financial...
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