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Exiles
Exiles : Aaron Falk Mystery #3
by Jane Harper
Reviewed: Jul 11, 2022
 
Published: Jan 31, 2023
 
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jane Harper comes Exiles, a captivating mystery about a missing mother.
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(4.7/5)
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River Sing Me Home
River Sing Me Home
by Eleanor Shearer
Reviewed: Aug 15, 2022
 
Published: Jan 31, 2023
 
Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery is a remarkable debut.
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(4.7/5)
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This Other Eden
This Other Eden : A Novel
by Paul Harding
Reviewed: Dec 26, 2022
 
Published: Jan 24, 2023
 
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.
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(4.4/5)
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Margot
Margot : A Novel
by Wendell Steavenson
Reviewed: Nov 21, 2022
 
Published: Jan 24, 2023
 
A moving portrait of a young woman's struggle to break free of her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution.
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(3.8/5)
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Wade in the Water
Wade in the Water : A Novel
by Nyani Nkrumah
Reviewed: Oct 17, 2022
 
Published: Jan 17, 2023
 
Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker's classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class that explores the unlikely friendship ...
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(4.7/5)
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The Nazi Conspiracy
The Nazi Conspiracy : The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
Reviewed: Nov 21, 2022
 
Published: Jan 10, 2023
 
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II.
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(4.7/5)
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
Reviewed: Nov 22, 2022
 
Published: Jan 10, 2023
 
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
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(4.4/5)
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Ghost Season
Ghost Season : A Novel
by Fatin Abbas
Reviewed: Oct 31, 2022
 
Published: Jan 10, 2023
 
A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.
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