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This is quite possibly one of my top 5 favorite books this year. Keep up to date with upcoming ruta sepetys releases 2020. Salt to the sea new york times bestseller and winner of the carnegie medal masterfully craftedthe wall street journal for readers of between shades of gray and all the light we cannot see, ruta sepetys returns to wwii in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the wars most devastatingyet unknowntragedies. We have a growing list of new ruta sepetys books and novels for you to enjoy in 2020. The washington postfrom new york times and international bestseller and carnegie medal winner ruta sepetys, author of salt to the sea, comes a. The 1950s setting in the french quarter of new orleans is really well done and i truly felt like i was transported back to that era while i was reading this novel. Ruta sepetys was born and raised in michigan in a family of artists, readers, and music lovers. Order signedpersonalized ruta sepetys books parnassus books. Ruta sepetys is an internationally acclaimed author of historical fiction published in over sixty countries and forty languages.
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