An American Summer
by Alex Kotlowitz
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As a Chicagoan, I've become used to the most common reactions when I'm traveling and tell someone where I'm from. Most of us are accustomed to it—the questions about "...
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Rose Rankin
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Beyond the Book: The Role of Race Relations in the 2013 Chicago School Closings
When people talk about Chicago, the endemic violence inevitably comes up, along with a sense of helplessness about how to stop it. That helplessness leads to apathy, and the feeling that the neighborhoods torn apart by gun violence are forsaken, ... Beyond the Book
The Sun Is a Compass
by Caroline Van Hemert
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Caroline Van Hemert fell in love with her future husband, Pat, in 2001, discovering they shared a passion for nature and wilderness adventure. Ten years later, the couple ...
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Kim Kovacs
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Beyond the Book: Kotzebue, Alaska
Caroline Van Hemert's memoir, The Sun is a Compass, chronicles a 4000-mile journey that concludes in northwest Alaska in the city of Kotzebue. Kotzebue is located on a three-mile-long sand spit at the end of the Baldwin Peninsula, where the Noatak... Beyond the Book
Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
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Miriam Toews' Women Talking is a circadian novel, unfolding over a span of just a few hours and taking place almost entirely in a single room. This room is a barn located in ...
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Lisa Butts
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Beyond the Book: Patriarchy in the Mennonite Community
Miriam Toews' novel Women Talking is inspired by events that took place in Manitoba Colony, a Mennonite community in eastern Bolivia with a population of about 2,000. From 2005-2009, hundreds of girls and women were drugged and raped during the night... Beyond the Book
Confessions of an Innocent Man
by David R. Dow
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It is circumstance that carries the wave that sweeps trendy Houston restaurateur Rafael Zhettah to death row in David R. Dow's taut roller coaster of a thriller. The fact that...
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Donna Chavez
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Beyond the Book: The Controversy of Capital Punishment
In David R. Dow's thriller, Confessions of an Innocent Man, the protagonist is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. Since the murder is committed in Texas, one of the 30 U.S. states that still allows capital punishment, he is sent directly ... Beyond the Book
Courting Mr. Lincoln
by Louis Bayard
A master storyteller at the height of his powers, delivers a page-turning tale of love, longing, and forbidden possibilities.
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D-Day Girls
by Sarah Rose
The dramatic story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory.
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Fly Girls
by Keith O'Brien
How five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history.
The instant New York Times bestseller
A guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.
From a powerful new voice in suspense fiction comes the unforgettable story of a young ...
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A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of Rupi Kaur, ...
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Saving Hamlet
by Molly Booth
Molly Booth has written an excellent debut novel. Saving Hamlet is a timeless classic that alternates between themes of romance, theatre and time travel effortlessly. ...
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The Five People You Meet In Heaven
by Mitch Albom
This book was given to me as a gift at a time in my life in which I despised reading...And it was so good that here I am writing a review just to encourage others to pick...
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The Crossing Places
by Elly Griffiths
The Crossing Places is the first book in the Ruth Galloway series by award-winning British author, Elly Griffiths. Norfolk DCI Harry Nelson has been haunted by the ...
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The Last Year of the War
by Susan Meissner
This being my first read of a Susan Meissner book I have no past references for comparison. However, with that said, I found this book to be very enjoyable. I enjoyed the...
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Room
by Emma Donoghue
What hold could Old Nick have over Ma that would make that room her world? Why didn't she just leave? Or maybe she wasn't able to leave?
Jack's fifth birthday ...
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The Last Year of the War
by Susan Meissner
Susan Meissner writes a brilliantly vivid piece of important and little known history. It combines friendship, love, family during a devastating times and the questions ...
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