The Pianist from Syria
by Aeham Ahmad
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Aeham Ahmad became famous as the face of Syrian suffering when a photo of him playing piano in the ruins of his hometown Yarmouk went viral in 2015. The father of two boys, ...
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Beyond the Book: The Oud
In previous 'beyond the book' articles we've looked at different aspects of contemporary Syria - such as its culture and the refugee crisis. Now, we take a look at its music through a close up look at one of the Muslim world's most popular ... Beyond the Book
The Smiling Man
by Joseph Knox
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Joseph Knox's latest turns on a simple premise: an unidentified and unidentifiable murdered man is discovered in the fourth floor suite of an abandoned hotel in Manchester. ...
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Donna Chavez
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Beyond the Book: Fingerprint Alteration
In Joseph Knox's noir thriller The Smiling Man, the police can't identify the murder victim because the man had gone to extremes in order to conceal his identity. Clearly a person in an occupation that required anonymity, he had resorted to perhaps ... Beyond the Book
The Heavens
by Sandra Newman
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I've been a big fan of Sandra Newman's writing ever since reading her 2014 novel The Country of Ice Cream Star. I've recommended this novel – in which the rapid ...
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Norah Piehl
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Beyond the Book: Time-Slip Novels
The Heavens is not an easy novel to categorize, but on at least one level, it participates in a category of fantasy literature called a 'time-slip' novel, in which a character travels between two or more separate timelines. The mechanism for the ... Beyond the Book
Sugar Run
by Mesha Maren
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Mesha Maren's debut novel is a plunge into the depths of the dark Southern gothic with pulsing and dynamic prose. Her characters are vividly drawn, her plot taut with a ...
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Lisa Butts
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Beyond the Book: Finding Employment After Prison
In Sugar Run, the principal protagonist Jodi McCarty has just been released from prison after serving a nearly 20-year term. She finds life as a free woman more difficult than she imagined, largely due to her inability to find gainful employment. ... Beyond the Book
The Last Year of the War
by Susan Meissner
A little-known story of WWII with great resonance for our times.
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A People's History of Heaven
by Mathangi Subramanian
A story of love and friendship, and fighting for the places we love.
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Girls Burn Brighter
by Shobha Rao
An extraordinary and heart-rending tale of two girls with all the odds against them.
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The Last Year of the War
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Susan Meissner’s newest book is about a German American teen girl who meets her best friend in an internment camp during World War II. We meet present day Elise Sontag ...
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After She's Gone
by Camilla Grebe
This was a mysterious and intriguing Swedish mystery that truly kept me gripped. It is the second book in a series but I read this without having read the first (The Ice ...
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Over the Edge of the World
by Laurence Bergreen
One of the best documented early expeditions in world discovery about Magellan's difficult and almost impossible voyage to circumnavigate the globe. Bergreen is an ...
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Dopesick
by Beth Macy
Dopesick should be read by every parent, educator, student and citizen. If you or you know someone within this opioid epidemic cycle, this book explains why. Why is you ...
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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
I was very pleased with this book. I felt that Michelle (who made you feel like you were her friend) did a wonderful job of telling her truth. She told of her aspirations...
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Uncommon Type
by Tom Hanks
It had been a long time since I read anyone's collection of short stories. I didn't have any expectations of this book, nor did I read any reviews prior, other than the ...
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