Territory of Light
by Yuko Tsushima
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Set in Tokyo during the late 1970s, Yūko Tsushima's Territory of Light chronicles a year in the life of an unnamed single mother struggling to take care of her two-year-...
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Michael Kaler
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Beyond the Book: The Life and Career of Yūko Tsushima
Born in 1947 in the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka, Yūko Tsushima was one of the most accomplished Japanese novelists of her generation at the time of her death from lung cancer in 2016. The author remains lesser known outside of Japan, but with the... Beyond the Book
Unmarriageable
by Soniah Kamal
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Soniah Kamal makes no secret of the fact that her novel Unmarriageable is a retelling of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice. In a particularly tongue-in-cheek opening ...
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Norah Piehl
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Beyond the Book: Recent Reinterpretations of Pride and Prejudice
Unmarriageable might be the first version of Pride and Prejudice set in Pakistan, but it's hardly the only creative retelling of this classic novel. Fortunately for fans of Jane Austen, several other imaginative reworkings of her beloved novel have ... Beyond the Book
The Paragon Hotel
by Lyndsay Faye
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Lyndsay Faye's arresting The Paragon Hotel focuses on how disparate groups of marginalized people cope in a country founded on the idealistic goal of equal opportunity for all...
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Donna Chavez
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Beyond the Book: The Unhappy Paradox of Black Soldiers in World War I
One of the central characters in Lyndsay Faye's The Paragon Hotel is a black Pullman train porter who had served in the United States Army in World War I. Not unlike most veterans today, he was rightfully proud of both his rank and service to the ... Beyond the Book
When Death Becomes Life
by Joshua D. Mezrich
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Though it happened more than ten years ago, Joshua Mezrich still clearly remembers setting out in a six-seater plane – during a thunderstorm, in the middle of the night ...
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Rebecca Foster
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Beyond the Book: An Organ Donation Reading List
Readers curious to learn more about organ transplantation after finishing surgeon Joshua D. Mezrich's memoir on the subject have a wealth of options to choose from; here are five recommendations, two fiction and three nonfiction: Fiction: The ... Beyond the Book
Sounds Like Titanic
by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
"A tricky, unnerving, consistently fascinating memoir."
--Kirkus, starred review
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The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
A stunning standalone novel from New York Times bestseller Jane Harper.
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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
Cherokee America
by Margaret Verble
An epic novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line.
The unexpected and forbidden affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok unfolds in...
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Kate Braithwaite
A novel of suspense that explores the complexities of marriage and the dangerous truths we...
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Kim Kovacs
Books to Read and Watch With Your Book Club
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
She is candid and talks about her struggles to protect her girls from papparazi, and surprisingly, to buffer them from the intrusive Secret Service. I'd never considered ...
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The Lost for Words Bookshop
by Stephanie Butland
I have been reading articles about Up Lit and books that fall into that category of uplifting, but not sugary sweet. The Lost for Words Bookshop fits into that mold. ...
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Once Upon a River
by Diane Setterfield
4.5 stars
I loved this book. It not only attests to the excellent story telling of the author, but it held me in awe of it's mastery of detail and readability. I felt ...
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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
Loved it. Easy to read. Original plot. Well developed characters came across as believable people. In the time frame set, all the discriminatory thoughts and acts are ...
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Meet Me at the Museum
by Anne Youngson
I am completely mesmerized by Meet me at the Museum. I could hardly put the book down--and not because it is a thriller that causes me to turn the pages breathlessly. I ...
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
An American Marriage has been on my TBR list for some time. The librarian who leads our local book club at my branch library chose An American Marriage for our Feb ...
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