Where Coyotes Howl may appear to be a classically conventional historical novel — a wide-eyed young woman travels out West to work as a teacher, but falls in love at first sight with a cowboy. ...
Read ReviewWomen Homesteaders of the West
Where Coyotes Howl is set in the young and growing town of Wallace, Wyoming in 1916, following a couple named Ellen and Charlie's path as they set out to build a ranch on the High Plains. Author ...
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Many people have heard one particular story about Helen Keller—how the saintly teacher, Annie Sullivan, put one of her deafblind student's hands under the flow of a water pump, and fingerspelled...
Read ReviewIn Max Wallace's absorbing biography of Helen Keller, After the Miracle, the author illuminates Keller's often overlooked dedication to the fight for civil rights. Through her lifetime, she was ...
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The Lost Wife is a hard-hitting novella based in part on a white settler named Sarah Wakefield's memoir Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity. In Susanna Moore's version of ...
Read ReviewMuch of Susanna Moore's The Lost Wife is set during the five-week conflict in Minnesota that came to be known as the U.S.-Dakota War. According to the University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust ...
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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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Ann Napolitano's much-anticipated Hello Beautiful pulls the reader into a warm, loving familial atmosphere in what has been described as an homage to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Sweeping and ...
Read ReviewThe Therapeutic Value of Walt Whitman's Poetry
Ann Napolitano's novel Hello Beautiful is the story of four sisters contending with life and loss, love, death and forgiveness, and finding different ways to cope with hardship. The characters go ...
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It's become common for history books and courses to reconsider the emphasis on "Western Civilization" that dominated education for decades, including its canon of mostly white male authors who ...
Read ReviewThe Life and Literature of Tullia D'Aragona
As Naoíse Mac Sweeney explains in her book The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives, the fusing of Greco-Roman roots into a common 'Western' narrative took off during the Renaissance, and ...
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Pieces of Blue
by Holly Goldberg Sloan
A hilarious and heartfelt novel for fans of Maria Semple and Emma Straub.
The First Conspiracy
by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
A remarkable and previously untold piece of American history—the secret plot to kill George Washington
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A funny and poignant debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel in a love story of interplanetary proportions.
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