Becoming
by Michelle Obama
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Voted 2019 Best Nonfiction Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers
BookBrowse hosted a Book Club discussion early in 2019 about Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming, and ...
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Beyond the Book: Memoirs by First Ladies
Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming has been a huge success by all standards, and she joins a long and illustrious list of former First Ladies who have written memoirs. The appeal is obvious: who wouldn't want to know more about the women who've stood ... Beyond the Book
Butterfly Yellow
by Thanhha Lai, Daniel Suarez
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Voted 2019 Best Young Adult Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers
As readers, many of us hope for lasting images from books, for thoughts expressed by authors that might ...
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Beyond the Book: Operation Babylift
In April 1975, thousands of American troops, civilians and South Vietnamese refugees were frantically airlifted out of Saigon, representing the end of American military involvement in the Vietnam War. The images of the rescue were seared into the ... Beyond the Book
Olive, Again
by Elizabeth Strout
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Voted 2019 Best Fiction Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers
It's been a big year for literary sequels, with the publications of Find Me by André Aciman, The ...
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Rebecca Foster
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Beyond the Book: Older Characters in Fiction
The elderly are often underrepresented in popular culture, and where these characters do exist, they are often one-dimensional. The most effective depictions of elderly people demonstrate that age does not limit one's ability to have an interesting ... Beyond the Book
Solitary
by Albert Woodfox
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Voted 2019 Best Debut Author Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers
According to statistics from the United States Bureau of Labor, between 80,000 and 100,000 people are ...
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Jamie Chornoby
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Beyond the Book: The Black Panther Party
In October of 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale of Oakland California founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, which later became the Black Panther Party. Although the Party disbanded in 1982 only 16 years after its creation, it remains ... Beyond the Book
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The Seine
by Elaine Sciolino
"A soulful, transformative voyage along the body of water that defines the City of Light."
—Lauren Collins
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Ordinary Girls
by Jaquira Díaz
Reminiscent of Tara Westover's Educate and Roxane Gay's Hunger--a memoir that reads as electrically as a novel.
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Evening in Paradise
by Lucia Berlin
"Berlin's new book is a marvel, filled with deeply touching stories about lives on the fringes."—NPR
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BUTTERFLY YELLOW
Winner of the BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel, and the overall highest rated book of the year!
Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-...
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Karen Lewis
Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of ...
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Rory L. Aronsky
In 1941, during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with ...
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Your House Will Pay
by Steph Cha
Thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins for the ARC of this novel. I enjoyed this a lot. It paints a nuanced picture of the aftermath of a racially based set of tragedies, ...
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The World That We Knew
by Alice Hoffman
There are a few cases when I would like to give a book 6 stars, but this is one of them. Having lived in Germany ten years after WWII, the book brought back memories of ...
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The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
I read this book earlier in the year when it came out in hardback. I can’t remember what caused me to be interested, but my records show I actually bought it on my Kindle...
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Everything Inside
by Edwidge Danticat
Edwige Danticat in these delicately told stories faces head on the lives of immigrants from Haiti facing hardship there and here, people between two cultures, the high ...
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Where the Light Enters
by Sara Donati
I enjoyed this book, it is a great follow up to the Gilded Hour, and can't wait to read the 3rd book! At 600 pages, I was at first dubious on how the author could keep ...
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The Stationery Shop
by Marjan Kamali
“Look, Zari, being in love is difficult to explain. When you know it’s right, you just know. There’s no avoiding it. It’s like … it’s like a tree has fallen on your head....
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