The Mercies
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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It's 1617 and a violent storm has claimed the lives of 40 fishermen off the coast of Vardø, a remote Norwegian settlement. Aside from a handful of elders, this amounts to...
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Callum McLaughlin
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Beyond the Book: Remembering the Victims of the Vardø Witch Trials
For such a small and remote community, Vardø has endured more than its share of tragedy. In 1617, the small fishing town found at the easternmost point of Norway was hit by a violent storm. Its arrival was so sudden and devastating, it all ... Beyond the Book
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
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Ya Ta, the main character in Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's novel, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, lives in rural northeastern Nigeria and is the first student from her village...
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Karen Lewis
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Beyond the Book: Baobab: The Tree of Life
A prominent symbol in Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, the mighty baobab tree sparks the imagination because of its unusual shape and longevity. Traditional Shona myth explains that the tree showed too much pride and was always whining and calling ... Beyond the Book
Run Me to Earth
by Paul Yoon
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Suspenseful and elegant storytelling in Run Me to Earth kept me turning pages even through traumatic and heartbreaking scenes. In the United States, it's a lesser known ...
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Karen Lewis
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Beyond the Book: Hidden Dangers: War's Legacy of Unexploded Ordnance
Author Paul Yoon's novel Run Me to Earth describes Laos as a beautiful landscape marked forever with unexploded ordnance (UXO) left in the wake of war from 1964 to 1973. Concealed explosives impact every character in the novel. The legacy of ... Beyond the Book
Beheld
by TaraShea Nesbit
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Much like her debut novel The Wives of Los Alamos, TaraShea Nesbit's Beheld imagines a familiar historical narrative from the perspectives of those who are often relegated to ...
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Lisa Butts
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Beyond the Book: Myles Standish and the Defense of the Plymouth Colony
Beheld takes place in 1630 at the Plymouth settlement in what would later become Massachusetts and features several characters taken from the real-life history of the colony. One of these is Myles Standish, a decorated soldier who arrived in 1620 on ... Beyond the Book
And They Called It Camelot
by Stephanie Marie Thornton
An unforgettable portrait of American legend Jackie O.
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The Yellow Bird Sings
by Jennifer Rosner
A breathtaking debut inspired by the true stories of Jewish children hidden during WWII.
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
The classic, ground-breaking meditation on war and the redemptive power of storytelling.
The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress
[I]ntimately told ...detailed and thought-provoking" - New York Times
Seductive, unsettling, and beautifully written, The Truants is a debut novel of literary ...
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A new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the...
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A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her ...
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A Good Neighborhood
by Therese Anne Fowler
This storyline is a real departure from Fowler's usual historical novels, but I think she has come up with a winner that could be adapted for one of Reese Witherspoon's ...
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Once Upon a River
by Diane Setterfield
In 2006, I fell in love with The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfied. This new third book Once Upon River once again has drawn me into a world of such intrigue and ...
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The Sun Down Motel
by Simone St. James
This was my first time reading this author, and I was not disappointed. The dual time line between Viv in 1982 and Carly in 2017 was well defined with the chapter ...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
This is an incredibly touching story of 19 year old blue skinned Cussy Mary Carter.
The year is 1936 and she is a rider for the Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky.
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Rust & Stardust
by T Greenwood
This book is based off the true story of Sally Horner’s kidnapping, making it that much more heartbreaking. This author took me into the story, and I actually felt my ...
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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
by Bryn Greenwood
This coming of age novel has been really inspiring . It proves that no matter the circumstances, there's always a way to come out at the top . It's the total opposite of ...
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