The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
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Brit Bennett's second novel, The Vanishing Half (after The Mothers, her 2016 bestselling debut), follows Desiree and Stella Vignes, identical twins born in 1938 in Mallard, ...
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Kim Kovacs
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Beyond the Book: Twins
Brit Bennett's novel, The Vanishing Half, follows the lives of Stella and Desiree Vignes, identical twin girls born in Louisiana in 1938. As you likely know, there are broadly two types of twins: fraternal and identical. Fraternal, or dizygotic, ... Beyond the Book
Tropic of Violence
by Nathacha Appanah
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Marie is a nurse working in Mayotte, a cluster of French territory islands in the Indian Ocean. When a young refugee from nearby Comoros abandons her baby, Marie takes him in ...
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Callum McLaughlin
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Beyond the Book: Mayotte: A Community in Crisis
An official department of France, Mayotte is a group of islands located in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of southeast Africa. This unique political and geographic setup has led to the development of a complex, fraught national identity for many of ... Beyond the Book
Death in Mud Lick
by Eric Eyre
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When Eric Eyre, investigative and statehouse reporter for the Charleston Gazette-Daily, began covering the opioid crisis in 2013, it started as a local issue: West Virginia ...
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Jamie Chornoby
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Beyond the Book: Federal Raid on Mingo County, West Virginia
In 1988, Mingo County, West Virginia appeared in headlines across the country, with reports of staggering corruption in the southwest part of the Mountain State. There were allegations that elected officials paid for votes, firefighters set property ... Beyond the Book
Orange World and Other Stories
by Karen Russell
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Karen Russell has a tremendous gift for crafting uncanny, through-the-looking glass worlds that are so much like our own, with a surrealist edge that asks insistent questions ...
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Lisa Butts
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Beyond the Book: Korčula: Past and Present
Korčula is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea off the Dalmation coast, and the setting of Karen Russell's story 'Black Corfu' from her story collection Orange World. It's the second most populated island in the Adriatic (after Krk), and ... Beyond the Book
The Prisoner's Wife
by Maggie Brookes
Inspired by the true story of a courageous young woman who enters a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves.
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The Last Flight
by Julie Clark
The story of two women and one agonizing decision that will change the trajectory of both of their lives.
The House on Fripp Island
by Rebecca Kauffman
A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife.
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings ...
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Elisabeth Cook
A thrillingly suspenseful debut novel, and a fierce howl of rage that questions the true ...
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Donna Chavez
From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel...
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Michael Kaler
Culture Corner: A Monster Calls and Elena Ferrante
Culture Corner: A Streetcar Named Desire and the Dutch Golden Age
The Paris Hours
by Alex George
This book is composed of brain burning, gasp inducing scenes that will stay with you forever. One day in Paris, four main characters, mystery upon mystery and it all ...
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Hollywood Park
by Mikel Jollett
Prior to reading this, I knew nothing about the author, nor his place in history as the frontman of the band Airborn Toxic. In fact, as I immersed myself in the book, I ...
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My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Russell
It took the author 18 years to write his novel. Who would have know how prescient it would become during the current "Me-Too" crisis. This is a very unsettling ...
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Surviving Autocracy
by Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen really nailed it. I’m not much for politics and haven’t read too many Trump-focused books because I found that a frustrating and unappealing topic. I picked ...
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Deep Creek
by Pam Houston
A wonderful book. The abuse by her father and the neglect by her mother and the failure of all the adults in her life, except one, to try to rescue her was hard to handle...
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Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim
I was definitely not convinced that I would love this book, but I did nonetheless. I was in my 8th month of pregnancy with my first child and the themes of parent/child ...
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