It is the summer of 1963 in Tamarack County, Minnesota. Just outside the small town of Aurora, nestled next to shimmering Iron Lake, 12-year-old Cork O'Connor makes a grisly discovery. Hiking into the...
Read ReviewThe Indian Relocation Act of 1956
In Lightning Strike, William Kent Krueger includes an author's note about the Indian Relocation Act of 1956 (also known as Public Law 959 or the Adult Vocational Training Program), which features as a...
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Kristin Harmel's historical novel The Forest of Vanishing Stars was very well-received by our First Impressions readers, who gave it an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars.
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In The Forest of Vanishing Stars, persecuted Jews in Eastern Europe take shelter in the Naliboki Forest, located west of Minsk in contemporary Belarus. The area, then known as Byelorussia, was annexed...
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Voted 2021 Best Fiction Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers
Things look bleak for Emmett Watson in June of 1954. The 18-year-old has just been released from a boys' detention center in Kansas, ...
Studebaker and the Land Cruiser
In The Lincoln Highway, the main characters undertake a would-be cross-country road trip in Emmett Watson's pride and joy, a 1948 powder-blue Studebaker Land Cruiser. The Studebaker company, ...
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Voted 2021 Best Nonfiction Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers
What makes humans human? It's a mystery that has inspired philosophers and driven scientific endeavor. The discovery of DNA in the...
Conflicts Over Credit: CRISPR and HIV
When a scientific breakthrough is achieved, it can be a moment of major celebration. Depending on the implications of that advancement, previously unknown individuals can find themselves vaulted into ...
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Voted 2021 Best Young Adult Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers
Angeline Boulley's young adult novel Firekeeper's Daughter follows 18-year-old Daunis — biracial member of the Ojibwe tribe, ...
Muskiiki: The Four Sacred Ojibwe Medicines
In Firekeeper's Daughter, Daunis is interested in how her fellow Ojibwe tribe members use medicinal herbs. She chooses to study pre-med courses and plant biology at college so that she may go on to ...
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Voted 2021 Best Debut Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers
Our First Impressions reviewers were intrigued and captivated by Emily Spurr's debut novel A Million Things, awarding it an average ...
In A Million Things by Emily Spurr, 10-year-old Rae recalls her mother reading her the story of Briar Rose. Briar Rose, better known as Sleeping Beauty, is a popular fairy tale character. While ...
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In Every Mirror She's Black
by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
An arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world.
The Big Holiday Wordplay
America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers.
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