Books reviewed by Beth Hemke Shapiro at BookBrowse.

Beth Hemke Shapiro

Beth Hemke Shapiro has a BA and a JD from Northwestern University. She also reviews books for ForeWord magazine and for the Review of Contemporary Fiction. She lives in Columbia, Missouri where she is actively involved in the arts.

Books reviewed by Beth Hemke Shapiro

Everything Asian (05/06/09)
Hands of My Father (02/19/09)
Eon (02/19/09)
Forecast (01/21/09)
The Big Necessity (11/12/08)
The Shadow Walker (11/12/08)
Murder on the Eiffel Tower (10/01/08)

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Hour of the Witch, a Civil War love story of a Confederate wife and a wounded Yankee.
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    Dream Count
    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    A searing new novel from the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists, exploring four women's desires.

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