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		<title>Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the Louvre (among them, Franz Kafka and his friend Max Brod) to gaze at a blank space on a wall. The 49-acre Louvre – still the largest museum in the world today – had been closed for most of the preceding week for the investigation of a singular occurrence: the most famous painting in the world had disappeared from that blank spot.]]></description>
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		<title>Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole.  Alongside the loud cynicism of its insistence that the battles are meaningless, the church is corrupt and the aristocracy live in a different world, <em>Agincourt</em> continually asserts a broadly positive, modern outlook.]]></description>
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		<title>All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2297</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within a few short years risen to a second round of best-sellerdom with three newly-discovered novels is a truly remarkable craftsman? Irene Nemirovsky first came to our attention in 2004, sixty years after her demise at the hands of the Nazis in Auschwitz, when a novel of hers was found “buried” within her journal entries. ]]></description>
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		<title>Résistance by Agnès Humbert</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1459</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious to the reason why a German car might be parked outside the hospital her mother is in, Humbert walks straight into hell. A member of the Gestapo has infiltrated and betrayed their group, and she and her friends are rounded up for a show trial. It is only April 1941. What follows is an account that tests our 21st century belief in rationalism.]]></description>
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		<title>Light of the Moon by Luane Rice</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/366</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Femi-lit doesn’t make as many headlines as its younger sister, but it shares certain familial traits. The protagonist is usually a woman in her thirties or forties, intelligent, independent, and confronted with the crises that arise in one’s middle years – the aftermath of a divorce, the death of a parent, a loveless relationship, the seesaw of work and family, the lack of a child. And as with chick lit, it is often love or a change of place that proves the catalyst for change.]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/302</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late eighteenth century emerging as one of the most momentous, if restless, eras in human history. In Russia, a great dynasty would be toppled; in France, revolution and the guillotine would hold sway; and, in America, the nascent democracy would enter the most critical period of its short existence.]]></description>
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		<title>Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/270</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silvio’s tale proceeds to unravel the neighborhood secrets, as he uncovers them with a skill that only an exquisite sensibility like Némirovsky’s commands, revealing shockers — illicit passion, intense jealousy, illegitimate offspring, and … murder! Such untold events have remained long hidden, if gossiped over by villagers, vicious events these country people chose never to acknowledge.]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview With Joanne Harris</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/56</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Uma Girish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["There is a universality to food that makes it easily accessible to the reader, and a long tradition of sensuality related to the subject. As newborns we first experience the world through two senses -- taste and smell. That means that our emotional response to a taste or a smell can act upon us at a very powerful, subconscious level."]]></description>
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