Category: Reviews
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The Night Watchman
Based upon Erdrich’s grandfather’s life as a night watchman and a tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota as he fights the Native American dispossession in the 1950s.
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We Begin at the End
Scout fights to protect her 5-year-old brother with the help of the chief of police, Walk. Walk is trying to heal from giving the testimony that put his best friend, Vincent, in prison. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that comes with his return.
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The Rose Code
A heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.
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Firekeeper’s Daughter
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on…
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Girl A
Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her siblings. But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she…
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Rebecca
“Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again…” With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely…
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Infinite Country
Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality for the undocumented in America, Infinite Country is the story of two countries and one mixed-status family—for whom every triumph is stitched with regret and every dream pursued bears the weight of a dream deferred.
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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
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