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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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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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