In Byron's Wake
by Miranda Seymour
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It's tempting to think that our age of celebrity worship coupled with the 24-hour news cycle is responsible for the double standard around men's abusive behavior towards women...
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Rose Rankin
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Beyond the Book: Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and the Writing of Frankenstein
Great art frequently evolves among talented people who share ideas with each other and who challenge themselves to greater and greater heights in the presence of fellow creatives. This was the case with one of the most famous works of Western ... Beyond the Book
The Latecomers
by Helen Klein Ross
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The Latecomers is the third novel written by acclaimed author Helen Klein Ross, following What Was Mine (2016). The novel opens from the perspective of Emma, a teenager living...
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Meara Conner
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Beyond the Book: Family Through the Ages: Multi-Generational Sagas
The Latecomers utilizes a multi-generational structure to bring the stories of the Hollingworth family members vividly to life. Here a few more novels I recommend that employ a similar narrative structure: The House of the Spirits by Isabel ... Beyond the Book
The Inflamed Mind
by Edward Bullmore
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It is common knowledge that depression diminishes the quality of sufferers' lives, but few people realize its full collective impact. Depression is one of the most significant...
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Jamie Chornoby
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Beyond the Book: How the Cure for Tuberculosis Led to the Development of Anti-Depressants
Sometimes inventions are derived by chance. In The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression, Edward Bullmore notes that the first antibiotic treatment of tuberculosis (TB) led to the creation of the world's most widely used antidepressant ... Beyond the Book
The Adults
by Caroline Hulse
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Things have already fallen apart on the first page of The Adults. The novel opens with an emergency call - someone has been shot in an archery accident. It's just a small ...
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Adrienne Pisch
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Beyond the Book: Imaginary Friends
One of the most memorable characters in The Adults is not one of the titular adults, but a four-foot-tall purple bunny named Posey. Posey is seven-year-old Scarlett's imaginary friend, and - like a real person - he has fears, desires and opinions. ... Beyond the Book
Golden Child
by Claire Adam
A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices.
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At the Wolf's Table
by Rosella Postorino
The internationally bestselling novel about the women conscripted to be Hitler's food tasters.
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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
Uncommon Type
by Tom Hanks
Surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and a must-have for Tom Hanks fans!
A perfect companion to Evicted and Nickel and Dimed, Heartland reveals one woman's ...
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Rebecca Renner
By the international bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a sweeping and unforgettable ...
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Literary Inmates: Famous Books Written in Prison
Girl Waits with Gun
by Amy Stewart
Girl Waits With Gun is the first book in the Kopp Sisters series by NYT best-selling American author, Amy Stewart. When, on a fine July day in 1914, silk factory heir ...
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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
Having been there myself, I recommend this marvelous book to any spouse of a political or government worker, and to anyone who wants to know what it’s like. The wind ...
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Unmarriageable
by Soniah Kamal
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a girl can go from pauper to princess or princess to pauper in the mere seconds it takes for her to accept a proposal.” – the...
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The Long Way Home
by Louise Penny
I am a huge L.P. fan and belong to a book club that has read all of her books in order and together attended an author appearance. That said, no one In our group liked ...
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
From the moment I heard the buzz that surrounds this book I had to read it to find out if it was really as good as almost everyone was saying that it was! I know you ...
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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
WOW! Just WOW! This is a great book. Murder, abandoned child, growing up alone, nature, young love, sex, ecology, love, poetry, betrayal, education, redemption, ...
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