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 Book of Longings
by Sue Monk Kidd
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The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd follows the life of Ana, a woman born in the Galilean city of Sepphoris at the start of what would become known as the Christian Era. ...
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Kim Kovacs
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Beyond the Book: The Nag Hammadi Texts
Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Book of Longings was in part inspired by a work entitled 'The Thunder, Perfect Mind.' Narrated by a female divinity, the poem is one of over 50 ancient texts that were found near the town of Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945. ... Beyond the Book
Master Class
by Christina Dalcher
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Christina Dalcher's Master Class shows America sleepwalking into a perfectionist eventuality not dissimilar to the one in Aldous Huxley's dystopian classic Brave New World. In...
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Mark Anthony Ayling
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Beyond the Book: The League of German Girls
The socio-political climate of Christina Dalcher's Master Class mirrors, to an extent, that of Germany during its early years under the influence of the Nazi Party. Dalcher draws overt comparisons between the educational proclivities of the Nazis and... Beyond the Book
How to Pronounce Knife
by Souvankham Thammavongsa
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Many examples of immigrant fiction dedicate a portion of their storytelling to exploring details of homelands that their characters have abandoned—food, rituals, sights ...
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Dean Muscat
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Beyond the Book: The Origins of Trick-or-Treating
In the story 'Chick-A-Chee!' from How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa, an immigrant father takes his children trick-or-treating on Halloween in the hope that they will integrate better into the local culture. Around the world today,... Beyond the Book
Daughter of the Reich
by Louise Fein
A spellbinding story of impossible love set against the backdrop of the Nazi regime.
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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 Paris Hours
by Alex George
One day in the City of Light. One night in search of lost time.
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The House on Fripp Island
by Rebecca Kauffman
A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife.
An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old...
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Karen Lewis
The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable ...
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Lisa Butts
A moving story set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France during the darkest days...
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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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