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Obedience
by Jacqueline Yallop
Obedience, Jacqueline Yallop's American debut, carefully weaves two timelines together: today, a convent in a remote part of France is closing its doors, propelling its three remaining residents into the cold, vast, secular world. Sixty years ago, during the Second World War, young Sister Bernard accepts an invitation to meet a German soldier in an empty church and finds herself in the middle of a passionate love affair. When Sister Bernard stops hearing the voice of God, as she always has, she begins to question everything she has ever known, or thought she knew: her faith, her God and her obedience.
These two alternating...
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Media Heat
Thursday, February 2, 2012
On KCRW's Bookworm: Steve Erickson, author of These Dreams of You (Europa Editions, $16, 9781609450632).On NPR's Diane Rehm Show: John Horgan, author of The End of War (McSweeney's, $22, 9781936365364).
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
On NPR's Fresh Air: Baratunde Thurston, author of How to Be Black (Harper, $24.99, 9780062003218).Tuesday, January 31, 2012
On NPR's Diane Rehm Show: Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master's Son (Random House, $26, 9780812992793).Thursday, January 26, 2012
On NPR's Diane Rehm Show: Zbigniew Brzezinski, author of Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power (Basic Books, $26, 9780465029549).On KCRW's Bookworm: Annie Leibovitz, author of Pilgrimage (Random House, $50, 9780375505089).
On NPR's Talk of the Nation: Meg Keene, author of A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration (Da Capo Lifelong Books, $16, 9780738215150).
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On NPR's Diane Rehm Show: Michael Erard, author of Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Free Press, $25.99, 9781451628258).On the Daily Show: Paula Broadwell, co-author of All In: The Education of General David Petraeus (Penguin, $29.95, 9781594203183).
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