Voted 2022 Best Fiction Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers. Geraldine Brooks creates a powerful backstory for 19th-century thoroughbred racehorse Lexington, weaving a rich tapestry of ...
Read ReviewBlack Jockeys: The Foundation of American Horse Racing
On its face, the end of the Civil War should have marked a time in which African Americans would be afforded freedom. But the end of slavery did not mean the end of Black oppression. Many white ...
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Voted 2022 Best Nonfiction Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers. In 2019, author Amy Bloom and her husband of 12 years, Brian Ameche, received life-altering news: a neurologist diagnosed Ameche with...
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In her book In Love, Amy Bloom's husband, Brian Ameche, decides to end his life prematurely, before his Alzheimer's disease becomes too debilitating. Being Americans, they first explored taking ...
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Voted 2022 Best Debut Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers. Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures, is set in the fictional town of Sowell Bay in upper Washington State, one of...
Read ReviewIn Shelby Van Pelt's novel Remarkably Bright Creatures, Tova Sullivan treasures her collection of Dala horses brought to the United States from Sweden decades ago by her mother. A Dala horse, ...
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Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Demon Copperhead is a captivating coming-of-age tale set in rural Virginia. Her protagonist, Damon Fields (aka Demon Copperhead for his fiery temperament and red hair)...
Read ReviewDavid Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Demon Copperhead is largely based on Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield. Charles Dickens (1812–1870) wrote 15 novels during his career, the eighth ...
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First Impressions readers enjoyed being transported to India via Thrity Umrigar's novel Honor, with 36 out of 38 rating the book four or five stars. What it's about: Smita—a Mumbai native ...
Read ReviewEscalating Anti-Muslim Sentiment in India
At the time of the partition in 1947, what was once the British colony of India was split, separating the predominantly Hindu Dominion of India (modern-day Republic of India) from the predominantly ...
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Celeste Ng's dystopian novel Our Missing Hearts wowed readers in our First Impressions program. All 22 who reviewed the book gave it four or five stars. What it's about: The author holds up a ...
Read ReviewA Chilling Rise in Book Bans in the United States
Celeste Ng's novel Our Missing Hearts is set in an alternate present in which the U.S. government has passed the Preserving American Culture and Traditions Act, which regulates, among other things, ...
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Scatterlings
by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
The debut novel of a gifted storyteller who has become a sensation in her native South Africa.
Cradles of the Reich
by Jennifer Coburn
Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race.
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