In Bisi Adjapon's Daughter in Exile, main character Lola is a Ghanaian who lands in New York City in 1997, pregnant and with only $250 to her name. She is forced to make a plethora of decisions on the...
Read ReviewAdoption Outcomes for Birth Mothers
Lola, the likeable and resilient protagonist in Bisi Adjapon's Daughter in Exile, finds herself in multiple difficult situations over a matter of years. At one point, pregnant without a partner after ...
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In the introduction to The Correspondents, author Judith Mackrell points out that although there had been women journalists reporting from the front lines of earlier wars, it was the Second World War ...
Read ReviewSeveral of the women highlighted in Judith Mackrell's The Correspondents started their journalistic careers covering the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Spain had been in political turmoil for many ...
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Our First Impressions readers were thrilled to return to the world of Jane Harper's protagonist Federal Agent Aaron Falk in Exiles, giving the third book in this series an overall rating of 4.7 out of...
Read ReviewA Quick Tour Through South Australia's Wine Region
Jane Harper's third novel in the Aaron Falk series sees the Federal Police agent returning to the fictional town of Marralee, located in South Australia and home to an annual food and wine festival ...
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Imani is a Shield, a warrior who is renowned for her fighting abilities and for her iron dagger, with which she has a special bond. Her reputation, however, has been tarnished by her older brother, ...
Read ReviewSpice Road, the debut novel by Maiya Ibrahim, features the Shields, a group of warriors sworn to protect the desert city of Qalia from magical beings and monsters. These warriors are gifted with ...
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Edgar Allan Poe biographers have an advantage over other writers because they don't have to come up with a hook. Their subject, the still-famous author of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and other spine-...
Read ReviewEdgar Allan Poe and Gothic Fiction in 19th Century Philadelphia
By 1838, Edgar Allan Poe had earned a reputation as a sharp literary critic and skillful editor while based in Richmond, Virginia. To make the most of his talents, he had to move to a bigger and ...
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Jamila Minnicks' debut novel Moonrise Over New Jessup received the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Our First Impressions reviewers appreciated its nuanced look at the civil rights ...
Read ReviewHistoric Black Communities in the United States
Jamila Minnicks' debut novel Moonrise Over New Jessup takes place in an all-Black town in 1950s Alabama. Residents are wary of integration, preferring to exist in their own space rather than being...
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Once We Were Home
by Jennifer Rosner
From the author of The Yellow Bird Sings, a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II.
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise
by Colleen Oakley
A “wildly surprising, entertaining ride of a novel.”
—Jodi Picoult
The Nurse's Secret
by Amanda Skenandore
A fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America's first nursing school.
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