The Fountains of Silence
by Ruta Sepetys
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The Spanish Civil War and its aftermath was a complicated period in history. The issues each side stood for, the divisions they caused in families, and the silence that ...
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Catherine M Andronik
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Beyond the Book: Robert Capa
In The Fountains of Silence, Daniel is a budding photojournalist who admires the work of Robert Capa. Capa, born Endre Erno Friedmann in Hungary, experienced first-hand the rise of Hitler and Nazism. After studying photography in Paris and ... Beyond the Book
Curious Toys
by Elizabeth Hand
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In Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand tells the story of Vivian, a 14-year-old girl disguised as a boy named Pin who lives at the Riverview Amusement Park in Chicago. In the summer ...
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Jordan Lynch
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Beyond the Book: Henry Darger
In Curious Toys, the main character, Pin, investigates the murder of a young girl in the Riverview Amusement Park in Chicago in 1915. Only one other person witnessed the girl's disappearance, a strange, shambling man named Henry Darger. Pin is ... Beyond the Book
Your House Will Pay
by Steph Cha
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Steph Cha's novel Your House Will Pay shows how a legacy of violence and injustice can ripple through generations. 27 years after the Los Angeles race riots, which were ...
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Jamie Chornoby
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Beyond the Book: Chopin's Farewell Waltz
In Your House Will Pay, one of author Steph Cha's characters is a gregarious, astute journalist called Jules Searcey, who is known for writing about issues related to political and racial dissent. He penned a breakthrough book based on his reporting ... Beyond the Book
Divide Me By Zero
by Lara Vapnyar
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Divide Me By Zero begins with an encounter between the narrator, Katya Geller, a 40-something mother of two, and a fish seller in Staten Island from whom Katya is buying ...
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Rachel Hullett
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Beyond the Book: Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
Born in 1940 in Leningrad, Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky, known to English speakers as Joseph Brodsky, was a Russian-American poet and Nobel Prize laureate, whose works and life feature heavily in Lara Vapnyar's novel Divide Me By Zero. Brodsky ... Beyond the Book
Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson
A moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning caring for two children with remarkable abilities.
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Mighty Justice
by Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe
An inspiring life story that speaks urgently to our troubled times.
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
A story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere.
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Calling Me Home
An emotionally raw and resonant story of two young women connected by a home for "fallen girls," and inspired by historical events.
Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of ...
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Rory L. Aronsky
By the international bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a sweeping and unforgettable ...
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Poornima Apte
From the National Book Award finalist, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel ...
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Kim Kovacs
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Your House Will Pay
by Steph Cha
Thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins for the ARC of this novel. I enjoyed this a lot. It paints a nuanced picture of the aftermath of a racially based set of tragedies, ...
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The World That We Knew
by Alice Hoffman
There are a few cases when I would like to give a book 6 stars, but this is one of them. Having lived in Germany ten years after WWII, the book brought back memories of ...
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The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
I read this book earlier in the year when it came out in hardback. I can’t remember what caused me to be interested, but my records show I actually bought it on my Kindle...
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Everything Inside
by Edwidge Danticat
Edwige Danticat in these delicately told stories faces head on the lives of immigrants from Haiti facing hardship there and here, people between two cultures, the high ...
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Where the Light Enters
by Sara Donati
I enjoyed this book, it is a great follow up to the Gilded Hour, and can't wait to read the 3rd book! At 600 pages, I was at first dubious on how the author could keep ...
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The Stationery Shop
by Marjan Kamali
“Look, Zari, being in love is difficult to explain. When you know it’s right, you just know. There’s no avoiding it. It’s like … it’s like a tree has fallen on your head....
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