Vita Nostra
by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
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Vita Nostra by Ukrainian authors Sergey and Marina Dyachenko is one of those novels that defies description. One might call it speculative fiction or magical realism, but ...
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Kim Kovacs
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Beyond the Book: Gaudeamus Igitur (So Let Us Rejoice)
The title of the novel Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko comes from a verse in the Latin song popularly known as Gaudeamus Igitur ('So Let Us Rejoice'). The work's lyrics urge their audience to enjoy all the pleasure they can because all ... Beyond the Book
And The Ocean Was Our Sky
by Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness has developed a reputation for experimental literature executed well, and his latest, And the Ocean Was Our Sky, is no exception. Once again breaking genre ...
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Michelle Anya Anjirbag
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Beyond the Book: The Hunt That Came First: Moby Dick
And the Ocean Was Our Sky is a re-imagining of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Ness's text is a very experimental adaptation of Melville's, and one need not know Melville's text to understand it. However, some background on ... Beyond the Book
Let It Bang
by RJ Young
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Every interracial love story is an exercise in complications. R.J. Young and Lizzie Stafford's love affair was anchored by the Second Amendment, and gun ownership, gun ...
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Valerie Morales
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Beyond the Book: Liberals Love Guns Too
In his memoir, Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey With Guns, R.J. Young takes readers into his obsession with guns, and in the process explores race, guns and self-protection in the U.S. But who exactly owns guns? While gun ... Beyond the Book
A Spark of Light
by Jodi Picoult
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The central premise of A Spark of Light involves a gunman holding hostages within the confines of a Mississippi abortion clinic. Outside, anti-abortion protesters hold signs ...
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Karen Lewis
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Beyond the Book: The History of the Condom
Women's health clinics like the one depicted in A Spark of Light offer many services beyond abortion, including providing access to pregnancy prevention tools like condoms. The condom is arguably the oldest pregnancy prevention method used by men ... Beyond the Book
The Kinship of Secrets
by Eugenia Kim
Two sisters grow up bound by family but separated by war; inspired by a true story.
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A Ladder to the Sky
by John Boyne
A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man.
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Unsheltered
by Barbara Kingsolver
A timely novel that explores the human capacity for resiliency and compassion.
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Severance by Ling Ma
An offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire that is featured on more than twenty 2018 "Must Read" lists!
New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel ...
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For readers of Colm Toíbín, a moving portrait of a marriage in crisis and a ...
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Force of Nature
by Jane Harper
Jane Harper has done it again. Staying in the Australian vein, again engaging with Detective Aaron Falk, this second book of the series is another great who-done-it. Her ...
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I Contain Multitudes
by Ed Yong
I listened to the audiobook version of I Contain Multitudes on my commute to and from school four days a week. I'm a biotechnology major so I have some background in some...
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Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
The writing style of George Saunders is unlike any other author I have ever read. His words sear, touch your heart like few things ever have. He has captured a beloved ...
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A Well-Behaved Woman
by Therese Anne Fowler
Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont was anything but a well- behaved woman. Left near-penniless as she approached marriageable age in the 1870’s, she set her aim for a wealthy ...
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Waiting for Eden
by Elliot Ackerman
Many moons ago, when I was a junior in high school I read a book for my contemporary history class, called, Johnny got his gun. Several years back I read a novel called, ...
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The Winter Soldier
by Daniel Mason
I had a lot of trouble getting into this book. I felt it read like a foreign dictionary. I was disappointed. I so liked Mason's book The Piano Tuner and was excited to ...
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