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Night of Fire
by Colin Thubron
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Each seemingly separate chapter of Night of Fire is a gem—perspectives on life and death, love and loss, time and truth, and God. The novel reads like a collection of ...
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Zoë Fairtlough
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Breathtaking Butterflies
Night of Fire frequently references butterflies, often ethereal, almost infinite in variation, and miraculous in their metamorphosis: '...the butterfly's resurrection was different: the winged angel risen from a worm...It showed that anything could ... Beyond the Book
This Is How It Always Is
by Laurie Frankel
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This is How it Always Is tells the story of the family of Rosie Walsh and Penn Adams, a doctor and a writer respectively, who fall in love, marry, and have five children. The ...
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Kate Braithwaite
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The Bathroom Bills
The joys and perils of raising a transgender child are beautifully brought to life in Laurie Frankel's This is How it Always Is. The question of where Poppy should go the bathroom when at school is a sensitive issue. In the United States, since ... Beyond the Book
History Is All You Left Me
by Adam Silvera
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As our lives tick away, our web of connections grows. We meet new people daily. Some of them fade from our minds quickly, but some people stay with us. To what degree does ...
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Bradley Sides
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OCD in Young Adult Literature
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) impacts the lives of many Americans, including young adults and children. According to a 2013 article in American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, OCD 'is seen in as many as 1 in 200 children and ... Beyond the Book
Lucky Boy
by Shanthi Sekaran
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Shanthi Sekaran's novel is the compelling and heart-rending story of two strong women who fiercely love the same little child—the "lucky boy" of the title. It's...
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Sharry Wright
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Grupos Beta
In the beginning of Lucky Boy, as Soli makes her way from Mexico to the United States, she spends several nights in a relief camp set up by Grupos Beta, a service agency operated by Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM), that offers water, ... Beyond the Book
Home Sweet Home
by April Smith
From the widely praised author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series, a stunning novel set in the McCarthy era.
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The Sellout
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The ...
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Cammie McGovern follows up her breakout young adult debut, Say What You Will, with this ...
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Bradley Sides
Jarhead meets Redeployment in a suspenseful and smart fiction debut that has been called "...
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The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
by Valerie Martin
I LOVE the author's "old style" of descriptive yet insightful and intelligent story telling. This book is not one you can breeze through immediately, you have ...
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The Universe Within
by Neil Shubin
I often find myself wondering about what is out there in the world, beyond what our mere human form can reach. How did everything come to be? Why does the universe ...
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A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
To say Ove was set in his ways would be a gross understatement. But Ove’s wife loved him and he loved her. Life was good until tragedy struck – twice. Now Ove is alone ...
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A Spool of Blue Thread
by Anne Tyler
“There was nothing remarkable about the Whitshanks. None of them was famous. None of them could claim exceptional intelligence. And in looks, they were no more than ...
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The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes' novel The Sense of an Ending is an intriguing,well written reflection by a man exploring his past relationship with a school chum and an ex girlfriend. &...
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A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
He introduces his characters a little at a time and doesn' t spoil their quirks by giving too much information about them too quickly. One of my favorite books in a long ...
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