The Stationery Shop
by Marjan Kamali
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My favorite literature creates worlds that I cannot visit in person. Marjan Kamali's The Stationery Shop swept me completely into the alluring but dangerous world of Tehran, ...
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Karen Lewis
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Beyond the Book: Iranian Cuisine
In Marjan Kamali's novel The Stationery Shop, Iranian food plays a central role, whether a simple melon smoothie drink, hot tea sweetened with rock sugar candy (nabat), or a more complicated feast for Persian New Year. Traditional cuisine from Iran, ... Beyond the Book
Wilder Girls
by Rory Power
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In Rory Power's Wilder Girls, the Raxter School for Girls, located on Raxter Island off the coast of Maine, has been quarantined for 18 months, and Hetty and her two friends ...
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Michelle Anya Anjirbag
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Beyond the Book: Emerging Infectious Diseases
In Rory Powers' debut novel Wilder Girls, the students at the Raxter School for Girls are suffering from a mysterious illness called 'the Tox,' but other than knowing what the effects are and that some people from the outside world are working on ... Beyond the Book
Inland
by Téa Obreht
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It's 1893 and the sparsely populated settlement of Amargo, deep in the Arizona Territory, is experiencing a severe drought. With the town's water supply fast depleting, ...
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Dean Muscat
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Beyond the Book: The Camel Corps of the U.S. Army
A key section of Téa Obreht's novel Inland takes place among the Camel Corps, a real-life mid-19th-century experiment conducted by the United States Army attempting to introduce camels as beasts of burden in the Southwestern territories. ... Beyond the Book
La Belle Sauvage
by Philip Pullman
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Voted 2017 Best Young Adult Novel by BookBrowse's Subscribers
I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I heard that Philip Pullman would be revisiting the world he brought to ...
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Michelle Anya Anjirbag
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Beyond the Book: Godstow Abbey
In his first trilogy, His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman brings readers into the story through an intense use of space; he gives us a fantastical Oxford, but described in such a way that readers could visit the real place and trace Lyra's adventures ... Beyond the Book
Ellie and the Harpmaker
by Hazel Prior
A rich, heartwarming and charming debut novel about finding love in unexpected places.
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The Overstory
by Richard Powers
"Monumental… A gigantic fable of genuine truths."—Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review
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The Secrets of Mary Bowser
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It's hard to believe The Secrets of Mary Bowser is Lois Leveen's debut novel. Or that it is a novel at all. Mary and all the other characters - and the period - are so ...
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Ellie and the Harpmaker
by Hazel Prior
What a wonderful story. I was so fascinated with the characters and how they reacted to life. The writing and the story just beautiful.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri
Thank you so much to Random House Ballantine and Netgalley for the advance reader copy of this book. Wow. What a novel. It’s definitely given me a book hangover because I...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
I cant say enough positive. What a great story - the blue folks and the mobile library are two parts of history I would not have known except for this book. Great ...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
This would have been 5 stars except the first quarter of the book seems way too constrained by the author's need to let us know she did the research necessary. Once she ...
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The Winemaker's Wife
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