The Last Ballad
by Wiley Cash
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A hundred years ago or so, farming land west of Charlotte, North Carolina was given over to giant textile mills. The town of Gastonia was called the "City of Spindles" and ...
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Gary Presley
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Beyond the Book: A Brief Look at the American Communist Party and Labor Unions
America prospered at the turn of the 20th century, but that prosperity wasn't reflected in working conditions or compensation for laborers. Many on the left felt the American Federation of Labor leadership was corrupt and began to support ... Beyond the Book
The Graybar Hotel
by Curtis Dawkins
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We – those of us on the outside – are lucky. So very lucky. We get to experience life – all of it, including every insipid moment. The prisoner in the short ...
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Poornima Apte
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Beyond the Book: The Rise of the Prison-Industrial Complex
The Graybar Hotel makes one reflect on the incarceration rates in the United States and the reason for its explosion over recent decades. Readers might remember the George H. W. Bush vs. then Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis presidential ... Beyond the Book
We Own the Sky
by Luke Allnutt
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Rob and Anna Coates have an idyllic life together; they have successful careers, love each other beyond reason, and have a beautiful five-year-old boy, Jack. Concern begins to...
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Kim Kovacs
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Beyond the Book: Brain Cancer in Childhood
In Luke Allnutt's novel, We Own the Sky, five-year-old Jack Coates is diagnosed with a glioblastoma brain tumor. According to the American Cancer Society, brain tumors are 'masses of abnormal cells in the brain or spinal cord that have grown out ... Beyond the Book
Some Trick
by Helen DeWitt
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In this erudite collection of 13 stories, Helen DeWitt explores the theme of stymied creativity, particularly as a result of financial and bureaucratic intrusions into the ...
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Lisa Butts
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Beyond the Book: Roland Barthes and "The Death of the Author"
In DeWitt's story 'Famous Last Words,' two characters argue over the interpretation of an essay by Roland Barthes called 'The Death of the Author,' and whether its message is still relevant for writers. Roland Barthes was a French philosopher and ... Beyond the Book
A Place for Us
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
A deeply moving story of love, identity and belonging--the first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint.
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Harbor of Spies
A captivating thriller-at-sea, Harbor of Spies is at once a spy story, a sea story and a love story set in Spanish colonial Havana in the 1860s, a time when the city was flush...
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The spellbinding prequel to Alice Hoffman's bestselling Practical Magic.
This "novel of extraordinary humanity" (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We...
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Salt Houses
by Hala Alyan
The meaning of the title is noted three fourth of the way through the book when the family patriarch, Atef, reminisces, “the houses glitter whitely…like structures made ...
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
by Eleanor Henderson
Warning: Many readers may find this book too dark, sad and brutal - unfortunately it is probably a very accurate of life at the time (1930's) and place (Georgia). As ...
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The Last Ballad
by Wiley Cash
Written in the true-to-life battle of workers rights, Wiley Cash does what he is so good at.
It is 1929 in Appleton County North Carolina and Ella Mae Wiggins ...
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The Radium Girls
by Kate Moore
Such a good, but sad book. The investigation that went into this book is astounding. The author Kate Moore had to have spent every single waking minute on this book. To ...
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American by Day
by Derek B. Miller
A piercing commentary on America seen through Norwegian eyes makes this novel one of the best of the year. I found myself relishing this book, rolling each word over my ...
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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
Lots of twists and turns and I'm still taking it in after finishing it. The ending didn't bother me at all, in fact I don't think it's an ending, but perhaps a beginning ...
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