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Posted on: January 11, 2023

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

Reviewed by Janet:Another amazing novel by the author of All the Light We Cannot See, this book has plot lines in the past, present, and future, all linking to an ancient Greek book that tells the story of Aethon. Although centuries apart,...

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Posted on: January 11, 2023

The Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

by Amor Towles

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven h...

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Posted on: January 11, 2023

Harlem Shuffle

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

by Colson Whitehead

"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He...

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Posted on: January 11, 2023

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

On Earth We re Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

Reviewed by Linda:A faculty member in the UMass MFA Program and recently named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow, Ocean Vuong earned comparisons to Emily Dickinson with his first book, a collection of poetry. For his second, he turned to autobiographi...

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Posted on: January 11, 2023

Oh William!

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

by Elizabeth Strout

Strout's iconic heroine Lucy Barton recounts her complex, tender relationship with William, her first husband – and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante.

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Posted on: January 11, 2023

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Caste

by Isabel Wilkerson

One of the most important books to appear in years. The author, who also wrote The Warmth of Other Suns, looks at how an unspoken caste system has shaped America and compares it to caste systems in India and in Nazi Germany. There are a...

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Posted on: January 12, 2023

Our Country Friends

Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart

by Gary Shteyngart

It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betr...

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The Sentence

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

by Louise Erdrich

A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who ...

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Posted on: January 12, 2023

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

How to Make a Slave

by Jerald Walker

Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising b...

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The Four Winds

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

by Kristin Hannah

Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman&ap...

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