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The Biographer’s Tale

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    The Biographer’s Tale (2000) is an erudite and occasionally esoteric literary mystery, and The Children’s Book (2009), following the family of a beloved children’s author, incorporates historical figures into a sweeping turn-of-the-20th-century tale. Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (2011), a retelling of the Norse…

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