May Nonfiction
1. . The lost library: the legacy of Vilna’s Strashun library in the aftermath of the Holocaust by Dan Rabinowitz. - no post
2. The Wide Wide Sea : Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides - 2024 - 411 Pages - a magnificent historical narrative
3. Blood on the River : a Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars. - 2020 - no post
4. Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Steven Ujifusa - 2023
5, Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery by Ana Lucia Araujo- forthcoming October 2024- 620 Pages is an extraordinarly valuable addition to the history of Trans-Atlantic Slavery
May Novels
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams - 1979. 272 Pages - no post
2. Crooked Plow : a novel by Itamar Vieira Junior ;2019 - translated by Johnny Lorenz from the Portuguese - 2023 - A 2024 International Booker Prize Finalist
3. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles - 2024 - 324 pages
4. The Awakening of Miss Prim- A Novel by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera 2023 -272 Pages - translated by Sonia Soto
5. The House of Haunting Hill by Shirley Jackson- 1959 - 208 pages
May Short Stories were three by Carol Shields
Home Countries of Reviewed Authors
1. USA - 4
2, Brazil - 2
3, Canada- 1
4. Spain - 1
Four May authors are women, four men, only one is deceased. All but Carol Shields had their initial feature this month.
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