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Once We Were Home
Once We Were Home
by Jennifer Rosner
Reviewed: Oct 17, 2022
 
Published: Mar 14, 2023
 
From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II.
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(4.7/5)
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The God of Endings
The God of Endings : A Novel
by Jacqueline Holland
Reviewed: Sep 19, 2022
 
Published: Mar 7, 2023
 
Suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking debut spans history, weaving a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman.
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(4.3/5)
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The Lost English Girl
The Lost English Girl
by Julia Kelly
Reviewed: Jan 23, 2023
 
Published: Mar 7, 2023
 
From Julia Kelly, the internationally bestselling author of Light Over London, comes a story of love, betrayal, and motherhood set against the backdrop of World War II and the early 1960s.
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(4.3/5)
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Zig-Zag Boy
Zig-Zag Boy : A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
by Tanya Frank
Reviewed: Jan 23, 2023
 
Published: Feb 28, 2023
 
A compassionate, heartrending memoir of a mother's quest to accept her son's journey through psychosis.
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(4.3/5)
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Homestead
Homestead : A Novel
by Melinda Moustakis
Reviewed: Jan 2, 2023
 
Published: Feb 28, 2023
 
From National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree and Flannery O'Connor Award Winner Melinda Moustakis, a debut novel set in Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders.
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(4.3/5)
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Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain : A Love Story
by Vesna Goldsworthy
Reviewed: Dec 26, 2022
 
Published: Feb 14, 2023
 
East and West collide in a "timely" and "bittersweet tale of loyalty, love, and the siren call of freedom" (Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times)
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(4.2/5)
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The Critic's Daughter
The Critic's Daughter : A Memoir
by Priscilla Gilman
Reviewed: Dec 26, 2022
 
Published: Feb 7, 2023
 
An exquisitely rendered portrait of a unique father-daughter relationship and a moving memoir of family and identity.
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(4.2/5)
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Stealing
Stealing : A Novel
by Margaret Verble
Reviewed: Nov 22, 2022
 
Published: Feb 7, 2023
 
A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and small-town prejudices from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret ...
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(4.8/5)
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