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My Name Is Leon
by Kit De Waal
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Kit de Waal's striking debut, My Name is Leon, has inspired this big, long, complicated question: Have you ever read a book about a character that is very unlike you, yet the ...
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Donna Chavez
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The Brixton Riots
With his nappy black hair and dark complexion, the boy at the center of Kit de Waal's debut, My Name is Leon, is caught up in the middle of the racial tensions of 1981 South London. The biracial child has a nine-year-old's agenda, ... Beyond the Book
New People
by Danzy Senna
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Danzy Senna has spent virtually her entire writing career exploring the complicated intersections of race, heredity, appearance, and identity. From her first novel, Caucasia (...
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Norah Piehl
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The Jonestown Settlement
In New People, Maria's dissertation focuses on the Jonestown settlement in Guyana and on the massacre that resulted in the death of some 900 men, women, and children from poisoning on November 18, 1975. Jonestown was developed, and sold to believers,... Beyond the Book
Hunger
by Roxane Gay
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In this penetrating and fearless memoir, author Roxane Gay discusses her battle with body acceptance and PTSD stemming from her rape at age twelve by a group of boys. After ...
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Lisa Butts
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Obesity and Childhood Trauma
In Hunger, Roxane Gay associates her ongoing struggle with obesity to the rape she endured at age twelve. Psychological studies indicate that she is not alone. Dr. Vincent Felitti of the Kaiser Permanente Department of Preventative Health in San ... Beyond the Book
The Black Witch
by Laurie Forest
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In The Black Witch, Laurie Forest introduces her readers to an immersive fantasy world where protagonist, Ren, is forced out of her sheltered life and into the far more ...
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Michelle Anya Anjirbag
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Sometimes Fantasy is More Real Than Nonfiction
Ask me with a gun to my head if I believe in them, all the gods and myths that I write about, and I'd have to say no. Not literally. Not in the daylight, nor in well-lit places, with people about. But I believe in the stories we can tell ... Beyond the Book
The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
A sweeping, heartfelt saga set in Ireland from the author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas.
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Young Jane Young
by Gabrielle Zevin
From the author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry comes a novel that will have everyone talking.
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News of the World
It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has ...
Hame by Annalena McAfee
A rich, sultry novel about a young American fleeing a crumbling marriage for a remote Scottish island.
A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it...
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Rory L. Aronsky
"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) ...
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Lisa Butts
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
by Arundhati Roy
“Their wounds were too old and too new, too different, and perhaps too deep, for healing. But for a fleeting moment, they were able to pool them like accumulated gambling...
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Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
Quite simply the best book that I have ever read. A feast of intense story-line, history, love, horror, emotion, description, frailty. I read it ten years ago and am now...
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Beartown
by Fredrik Backman
The Scandal (also titled Beartown) is the fourth full-length novel by Swedish blogger, columnist and author, Fredrik Backman. It is translated from Swedish by Neil Smith....
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The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
I used to teach high school English, so I have read more than my share of novels. I used to read them and make AR tests so the kids would have books to read that they ...
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Redemption Road
by John Hart
WOW. John Hart really knows how to write an engrossing, heart pounding, well plotted mystery…… and he can do it with a minimum of sex, blood and vulgar language. A ...
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News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
The first time I read “News of the World,” I breezed through it because I couldn’t wait to find out how the story ended. The second time I read it (which was immediately ...
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