Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James
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If you are looking for an indulgent, escapist fantasy, Black Leopard, Red Wolf may not be for you. Marlon James has built quite a world. It is vivid, kaleidoscopic and strange...
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Natalie Vaynberg
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Beyond the Book: The Shape-Shifting Monsters of African Lore
Stories of shapeshifters have permeated literature and art from the beginning of civilization. Therianthropy, or the changing of a human into an animal, is perhaps the most commonly known trope of the shapeshifting genre, with illustrations of such ... Beyond the Book
That Time I Loved You
by Carianne Leung
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Carrianne Leung was a Toronto Book Award finalist for That Time I Loved You as well as for her debut novel The Wondrous Woo (2014). First published in Canada last year, this ...
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Rebecca Foster
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Beyond the Book: Linked Short Stories
Linked short stories, novels in stories, story cycles – these are terms for collections in which the stories are not all discrete pieces with separate worlds and characters. Instead, characters recur, whether subtly or overtly, and multiple... Beyond the Book
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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Kim Kovacs
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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 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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A sweeping epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados.
A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist ...
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A new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the...
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The Last Year of the War
by Susan Meissner
Susan Meissner writes a brilliantly vivid piece of important and little known history. It combines friendship, love, family during a devastating times and the questions ...
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The Last Year of the War
by Susan Meissner
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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