Delayed Rays of a Star
by Amanda Lee Koe
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Amanda Lee Koe's Delayed Rays of a Star begins with a late-1920s photo of three women at a party in Berlin who would go on to make names for themselves in the world of cinema:...
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Elisabeth Cook
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Beyond the Book: Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong was a Chinese-American film star who worked in the entertainment industry from the 1920s to the 1960s. As a person of color, she experienced limitations in the roles she was able to play throughout her career due to discrimination and ... Beyond the Book
Southernmost
by Silas House
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Southernmost opens with a devastating flood in Cumberland Valley, Tennessee. Could it be divine punishment for the Supreme Court's legalization of gay marriage? Thirty-...
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Rebecca Foster
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Beyond the Book: Literary and Pop Culture References in Southernmost
In Silas House's Southernmost, Asher's estranged brother Luke sends him postcards with quotations from books, poems, and songs that serve as secret messages passing between them. Here's a closer look. 'Sandpiper': Asher&... Beyond the Book
Fake Like Me
by Barbara Bourland
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After years of trying to make it as a painter in New York City, the unnamed narrator of Fake Like Me is accepted into a prestigious Parisian gallery. Seeing it as her shot at ...
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Beyond the Book: Lee Lozano's Dropout Piece
In Fake Like Me, author Barbara Bourland alludes to artist Lee Lozano (1930-1999) and her elusive, controversial final project called Dropout Piece. This piece of performance art was Lozano's act of withdrawing from the art world in order to be an ... Beyond the Book
Hungry
by Jeff Gordinier
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Noma, René Redzepi's restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark, has widely been considered among the best in the world, coming first in Restaurant magazine's rankings four times ...
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Beyond the Book: The Rise of the Celebrity Chef
Jeff Gordinier, the author of Hungry (about his travels with René Redzepi), dates the concept of the modern celebrity chef to 1990, when Marco Pierre White, a London chef with a famously fiery temper, released the cookbook White Heat. A ... Beyond the Book
The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt
by Andrea Bobotis
A thoughtful and quintessentially Southern debut that unfolds like a magnolia.
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Beirut Hellfire Society
by Rawi Hage
A searing and visionary novel set in 1970s Beirut that asks what it means to live through war.
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The Guest Book
by Sarah Blake
"An American epic in the truest sense…"
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"Evocative prose and excellent pacing make this fine historical a must-read for art history buffs."
- Publishers Weekly
Families today are squeezed on every side - from high childcare costs and harsh employment...
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A delightful novel of one woman's transformative journey, from the best-selling and ...
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A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we'll go ...
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton
by Sara Collins
Through the written confession of a slave, a maid, we find out whether or not she committed the murder that she is being tried and convicted of. Frannie Langton has been ...
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America for Beginners
by Leah Franqui
Yes!! I made it out of Las Vegas. Kind of an inside joke, with apologies to those who loved book:The Goldfinch|17333223, but I always say when referring to that book that...
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Boy Erased
by Garrard Conley
Living in Utah the premises of this book are not too foreign. It explores the thought process of this young man as he undergoes the path his family truly feels is his ...
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The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
I don't write a lot of reviews but this book is one I just can't stop thinking about. I listen to a lot of audiobooks because of my long commute and I had a hard time ...
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The Electric Woman
by Tessa Fontaine
The story of a young woman who runs away with the circus sounds a bit trite, but Fontaine tells the story of a year in her own life, and it is captivating. She joins The ...
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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
No matter what else is written in 2019 this will always be among my top three fiction books of the year. Through the eyes of Kya Clark, an abandoned child. Delia Owens ...
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