Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
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Miriam Toews' Women Talking is a circadian novel, unfolding over a span of just a few hours and taking place almost entirely in a single room. This room is a barn located in ...
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Lisa Butts
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Beyond the Book: Patriarchy in the Mennonite Community
Miriam Toews' novel Women Talking is inspired by events that took place in Manitoba Colony, a Mennonite community in eastern Bolivia with a population of about 2,000. From 2005-2009, hundreds of girls and women were drugged and raped during the night... Beyond the Book
Confessions of an Innocent Man
by David R. Dow
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It is circumstance that carries the wave that sweeps trendy Houston restaurateur Rafael Zhettah to death row in David R. Dow's taut roller coaster of a thriller. The fact that...
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Donna Chavez
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Beyond the Book: The Controversy of Capital Punishment
In David R. Dow's thriller, Confessions of an Innocent Man, the protagonist is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. Since the murder is committed in Texas, one of the 30 U.S. states that still allows capital punishment, he is sent directly ... Beyond the Book
Memories of the Future
by Siri Hustvedt
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I've never kept a journal, but my mother has written in hers for years, the annual volumes she's written since high school now take up space in a plastic tote under her bed. I...
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Norah Piehl
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Beyond the Book: 1970s Hangouts in New York City
Among other things, Hustvedt's novel Memories of the Future is a vivid portrait of what it was like to live in New York City as a young woman in the late 1970s. She writes evocatively about many of her character's favorite haunts, which include ... Beyond the Book
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
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Rajeev Balasubramanyam encapsulates the theme of Professor Chandra Follows his Bliss in its first chapter after Chandra learns that the thing, the one thing, he's strived for ...
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Beyond the Book: The Legendary Esalen Institute
In Rajeev Balasubramanyam's novel, Professor Chandra Follows his Bliss, about a man's golden years' journey to finding himself, Oxford Professor P. R. Chandrasekhar takes a course in self-awareness at California's legendary Esalen Institute. Tucked ... Beyond the Book
The Affairs of the Falcóns
by Melissa Rivero
A beautiful, urgent novel about the lengths one woman is willing to go to build a new life.
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Greek to Me
by Mary Norris
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.
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Fly Girls
by Keith O'Brien
How five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history.
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Ecstasy reveals the true Alma Mahler: composer, author, daughter, mother, wife, lover, and muse.
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The Five People You Meet In Heaven
by Mitch Albom
This book was given to me as a gift at a time in my life in which I despised reading...And it was so good that here I am writing a review just to encourage others to pick...
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The Crossing Places
by Elly Griffiths
The Crossing Places is the first book in the Ruth Galloway series by award-winning British author, Elly Griffiths. Norfolk DCI Harry Nelson has been haunted by the ...
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The Last Year of the War
by Susan Meissner
This being my first read of a Susan Meissner book I have no past references for comparison. However, with that said, I found this book to be very enjoyable. I enjoyed the...
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Room
by Emma Donoghue
What hold could Old Nick have over Ma that would make that room her world? Why didn't she just leave? Or maybe she wasn't able to leave?
Jack's fifth birthday ...
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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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