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Black Widows
Black Widows : A Novel
by Cate Quinn
Reviewed: Dec 7, 2020
 
Published: Feb 9, 2021
 
For fans of The Wife Between Us and The Dry comes a chilling murder mystery that takes a domestic thriller's classic question―"Did his wife kill him?"―and twists it into an completely new type of suspense.
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(4.1/5)
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The Last Tiara
The Last Tiara
by M.J. Rose
Reviewed: Dec 7, 2020
 
Published: Feb 2, 2021
 
From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller M.J. Rose comes a provocative and moving story of a young female architect in post-World War II Manhattan, who stumbles upon a hidden treasure and begins a journey to discovering her mother's ...
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(4.1/5)
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The Three Mothers
The Three Mothers : How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Reviewed: Oct 26, 2020
 
Published: Feb 2, 2021
 
In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm ...
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(3.8/5)
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Smalltime
Smalltime : A Story of My Family and the Mob
by Russell Shorto
Reviewed: Feb 8, 2021
 
Published: Feb 2, 2021
 
Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America.
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(4.1/5)
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The Narrowboat Summer
The Narrowboat Summer
by Anne Youngson
Reviewed: Oct 19, 2020
 
Published: Jan 26, 2021
 
From the author of Meet Me at the Museum, a charming novel of second chances, about three women, one dog, and the narrowboat that brings them together.
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(3.9/5)
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At the Edge of the Haight
At the Edge of the Haight
by Katherine Seligman
Reviewed: Sep 21, 2020
 
Published: Jan 19, 2021
 
The Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, At the Edge of the Haight follows Maddy Donaldo, who is homeless at twenty, and the lives of those who depend on makeshift homes and communities in a rapidly changing San ...
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(3.9/5)
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The Prophets
The Prophets
by Robert Jones Jr.
Reviewed: Sep 14, 2020
 
Published: Jan 5, 2021
 
A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.
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(4.5/5)
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The Fortunate Ones
The Fortunate Ones
by Ed Tarkington
Reviewed: Oct 5, 2020
 
Published: Jan 5, 2021
 
For fans of Ann Patchett's Commonwealth and Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here, The Fortunate Ones is an engrossing story of class, love, and loyalty.
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(4.2/5)
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