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This Other Eden
This Other Eden : A Novel
by Paul Harding
Reviewed: Dec 26, 2022
 
Published: Jan 24, 2023
 
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.
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Wade in the Water
Wade in the Water : A Novel
by Nyani Nkrumah
Reviewed: Oct 17, 2022
 
Published: Jan 17, 2023
 
Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker's classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class that explores the unlikely friendship ...
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(4.7/5)
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Ghost Season
Ghost Season : A Novel
by Fatin Abbas
Reviewed: Oct 31, 2022
 
Published: Jan 10, 2023
 
A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.
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(4.5/5)
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The Nazi Conspiracy
The Nazi Conspiracy : The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
Reviewed: Nov 21, 2022
 
Published: Jan 10, 2023
 
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II.
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
Reviewed: Nov 22, 2022
 
Published: Jan 10, 2023
 
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
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In the Time of Our History
In the Time of Our History
by Susanne Pari
Reviewed: Aug 15, 2022
 
Published: Jan 3, 2023
 
The prodigal daughter of Iranian immigrants returns to her family home for her sister's One Year – the Persian tradition of marking the first anniversary of someone's death – in an intimate story of identity and duty set in late-1990s San...
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Scatterlings
Scatterlings : A Novel
by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
Reviewed: Sep 19, 2022
 
Published: Dec 13, 2022
 
A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning—and the most awarded debut title in South Africa—that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed, revealing the story of one family...
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(4.1/5)
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Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs : A Novel
by Lydia Millet
Reviewed: Aug 22, 2022
 
Published: Oct 11, 2022
 
Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between ...
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