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Midwinter Break
by Bernard MacLaverty
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Northern Ireland's Bernard MacLaverty is the author of five novels and multiple short story collections. The main characters of his new book, Midwinter Break, are Stella ...
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Rebecca Foster
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The Beguines
In Bernard MacLaverty's novel, Midwinter Break, Stella is intrigued by the Beguines, a lay Catholic sisterhood, and while she and her husband are on vacation in Amsterdam she meets with a spiritual director at the Begijnhof to investigate how she ... Beyond the Book
The Ninth Hour
by Alice McDermott
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In a pivotal scene in The Ninth Hour, young Sally encounters an increasingly loathsome series of degenerates on an ill-fated train ride across the country. She is beset on all...
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Lisa Butts
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The Little Sisters of the Poor and Sister St. Jeanne Jugan
The nuns in The Ninth Hour belong to the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order with humble beginnings, founded by Sister St. Jeanne Jugan, also known as Sister Mary of the Cross. Jugan was born in Brittany, France in 1792, amid the hardships of the ... Beyond the Book
Rebellion
by Molly Patterson
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Rebellion overlays the stories of four women, spanning a century and the globe in their wide distance from one another. Patterson effectively sketches in the ties that bond ...
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Chris Fredrick
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The Boxer Rebellion
One of the main characters in Rebellion is a Protestant missionary to China in the 1890s, who goes missing during the Boxer Rebellion. Though not nearly as old as Confucianism, Christianity existed in China as early as the seventh century, but ... Beyond the Book
Genuine Fraud
by E Lockhart
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Do we ever really know who our friends are? Or what the truth is? After all, truth, like beauty is often in the eye of the beholder, but whose gaze are we meant to trust? ...
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Michelle Anya Anjirbag
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Unreliable Narrators and Ourselves
American literary critic Wayne C. Booth coined the term 'unreliable narrator' in 1961 in his most famous book, The Rhetoric of Fiction, and the concept was later refined by Hamilton College professor and narrative theorist Peter J. Rabinowitz: ... Beyond the Book
Love and Other Consolation Prizes
by Jamie Ford
Inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair.
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
by Eleanor Henderson
An audacious epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.
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Being Mortal
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.
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If the Creek Don't Rise
A debut novel bursting with heart, honesty, and homegrown grit.
With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a ...
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The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: ...
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Miss Jane
by Brad Watson
A very unusual book! An interesting treatment of a problem a woman and her family has to deal with from her birth and through her entire life. Even though it is the ...
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Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande
This book adds greatly to the conversation of aging, death, and quality of life issues. It goes further than most by flipping the discussion on its head by not defining ...
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Castle of Water
by Dane Huckelbridge
What looked like an ordinary novel of 2 castaways on a deserted island in French Polynesia turned out to be anything but. Barry Bleecker, a frustrated artist and former...
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News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
Having lived in West Texas, studied Texas history and taught literature set in this country, I found the book a joy to read. Those who are familiar with the film "...
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Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal" actually made me feel better about growing older and, eventually, frailer. Just knowing that there are people like him that are ...
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
“Some might wonder that the two men should consider themselves to be old friends having only known each other for four years; but the tenure of friendships has never been...
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