The Flight Portfolio
by Julie Orringer
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At once a sweeping historical narrative, an insightful character study and a tender romance, Julie Orringer's The Flight Portfolio defies easy categorization. Recounting the ...
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Natalie Vaynberg
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Beyond the Book: Vichy France During World War II
It is a well-known fact that France was occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II. Not only is this chapter in history covered in textbooks and classrooms, it is also frequently the subject of movies and novels. The simplified picture of France at... Beyond the Book
How to Make Friends with the Dark
by Kathleen Glasgow
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Don't go to bed angry; make up after fights; always say I love you – you don't know when what you say to someone might be the last thing you ever say to that person...
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Michelle Anya Anjirbag
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Beyond the Book: What happens when a minor loses an only parent and has no one left?
In Kathryn Glasgow's How to Make Friends with the Dark, 16-year-old Tiger learns that her mother is dead, and almost equally upsetting, she can't even go somewhere familiar to stay while she figures out how to adjust to being an orphan; with no known... Beyond the Book
Red Birds
by Mohammed Hanif
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Mohmmed Hanif's Red Birds is part Catch-22, part Slaughterhouse-Five, part Kafka's The Castle, and all Hanif's darkly satirical wit and wildly creative imagination. Set ...
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Naomi Benaron
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Beyond the Book: The Human Cost of War in Post-9/11 Conflicts
The attacks of September 11, 2001 and the United States' subsequent military response fundamentally changed the political landscape of the Middle East/Central-South Asia. This landscape is the setting of Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif, who declared one ... Beyond the Book
Endeavour
by Peter Moore
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Miriam-Webster defines a biography as "a usually written history of a person's life." One might argue, therefore, that biographies can't be written about inanimate objects, ...
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Kim Kovacs
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Beyond the Book: Transit of Venus
The HMS Endeavour, the eponymous subject of Peter Moore's book, was purchased by the British Navy in 1768. One of its missions was to transport a group of scientists to Tahiti where they could make astronomical measurements during a rare event called... Beyond the Book
Travelers
by Helon Habila
A startlingly exploration of the African diaspora in Europe, by an acclaimed international writer.
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The Volunteer
by Jack Fairweather
The true story of one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz from within.
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
A masterpiece of storytelling, and a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection.
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The Guest Book
by Sarah Blake
"An American epic in the truest sense."
—Entertainment Weekly
From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and ...
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Grace Symes
National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought ...
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Norah Piehl
A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of ...
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Kim Kovacs
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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
No matter what else is written in 2019 this will always be among my top three fiction books of the year. Through the eyes of Kya Clark, an abandoned child. Delia Owens ...
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The Guest Book
by Sarah Blake
The lives of three generations of Miltons spanning most of the 20th century on the Eastern Seaboard sometimes appalls, always intrigues, and never bores. Grappling with ...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is a novel published in the year 2007 to unprecedented acclaim, and the novel turned to be a huge critical and popular ...
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay
by Adib Khorram
This book has a teenage male protagonist but readers of all ages and genders will be able to relate to the difficulties he faces. Darius's Persian ancestry makes him a ...
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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
By the time my name came up to get this from the library, I was more than a little burned out on political autobiographies, so started this half-heartedly. Boy was I ...
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
This is not my usual choice, I happened across it at a duty free shop at an airport many years ago. I opened it and read the prologue and bawled my eyes out. I felt ...
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