Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland
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The war between the states is over and, instead, a very different battle is being waged for the future of the United States – or at least it is in the stunning, complex ...
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Michelle Anya Anjirbag
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Beyond the Book: The Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The boarding school in Dread Nation, where children are sent after being taken from their families is based on real schools that existed across the United States. While Miss Preston's, the school in Dread Nation is specifically for girls of color to ... Beyond the Book
Costalegre
by Courtney Maum
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The year is 1937 and Hitler is gaining stronger sway over Europe. Chief among the Führer's growing list of targets are the Surrealist and Dadaist artists whose work he ...
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Dean Muscat
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Beyond the Book: The Life and Art of Pegeen Guggenheim
Costalegre's main protagonist Lara Calaway is based on real-life artist Pegeen Vail Guggenheim (1925-1967), daughter of wealthy New York art collector and socialite Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979). In her afterword, author Courtney Maum leaves... Beyond the Book
Lands of Lost Borders
by Kate Harris
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Powered by imagination, grit, a bicycle, and the companionship of her best friend Mel, Kate Harris ventured twice—once in 2006 and again in 2011—to travel parts of ...
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Karen Lewis
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Beyond the Book: Georgia: Crossroads of History
In Lands of Lost Borders, author Kate Harris and her friend Melissa Yule bicycle through eastern and central Asia, stopping in the Eurasian nation of Georgia. Bordered by Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, Georgia was a member of the Soviet ... Beyond the Book
The History of Living Forever
by Jake Wolff
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Conrad is a boy in love for the first time. His mother is dead; his father is a dying alcoholic. But things are finally looking up when a summer science project with his ...
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Adrienne Pisch
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Beyond the Book: Alchemy Across the Ages
Since the start of recorded history, as Jake Wolff's debut novel The History of Living Forever makes clear, humans have sought the elixir of life that would confer immortality. The ancient Greeks fantasized about finding ambrosia, the mythical ... Beyond the Book
Ellie and the Harpmaker
by Hazel Prior
A rich, heartwarming and charming debut novel about finding love in unexpected places.
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Never Have I Ever
by Joshilyn Jackson
A diabolically entertaining tale of betrayal, deception, temptation, and love.
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The Overstory
by Richard Powers
"Monumental… A gigantic fable of genuine truths."—Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review
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Crudo by Olivia Laing
A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse.
Treeborne is a celebration and a reminder: of how the past gets mixed up in thoughts of ...
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Dean Muscat
A story of resilience and loss, love and family, testifying to the vulnerability and ...
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Michelle Anya Anjirbag
From twice National Book Award–nominated Rachel Kushner comes a spectacularly ...
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Lisa Butts
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
This would have been 5 stars except the first quarter of the book seems way too constrained by the author's need to let us know she did the research necessary. Once she ...
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The Winemaker's Wife
by Kristin Harmel
Full disclosure: the members of my book club each received a free proof of this book through the galley match program ( #GalleyMatch or @gallerybooks ) before it’s ...
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The Guest Book
by Sarah Blake
After reading the last page, I thought Wow! Great writing! Incredible characters. Full of life philosophy. The best description of inner racism and entitlement I’ve ...
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Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim
This is a rare court room drama that caused me to feel empathy for all of its flawed characters- immigrants trying to give a daughter a chance for success in America, ...
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America for Beginners
by Leah Franqui
This was a delightful book. A conservative Indian lady seeks closure with her son’s death by taking a guided tour of America.
Pival hires an Indian (she thinks) tour ...
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Hunger
by Roxane Gay
Hunger portrays, among other issues, how the invisible destructive social forces systematically form our view towards ourselves.
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