The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer - Review | BookPage

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer - Review | BookPage: David Treuer offers a compelling counternarrative to popular U.S. history with a combination of reportage, interviews and memoir about American Indian life in the recent past.

Dreaming in Turtle by Peter Laufer - Review | BookPage

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Dreaming in Turtle by Peter Laufer - Review | BookPage: BookPage Top Pick in Nonfiction, December 2018 Most people only know a few basic facts about turtles: They are slow-moving, egg-laying, cold-blooded reptiles. Yet as journalist Peter Laufer (The Dangerous World of Butterflies) notes in his new book, Dreaming in Turtle, “everybody has a turtle story.”

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal - Review | BookPage

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Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal - Review | BookPage: If marriage is the prize, you’d better be skilled in the art of “grabbing it,” it being an eligible bachelor. In her Pride and Prejudice adaptation, Soniah Kamal transports Jane Austen’s narrative to early-2000s Pakistan, imbuing the often-reimagined story with a fresh lexicon.

Well Read: February 2019 - Feature | BookPage

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Well Read: February 2019 - Feature | BookPage: A new collection of essays and speeches from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison solidifies her legacy as one of America’s most thoughtful and important writers.

Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield - Interview | BookPage

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Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield - Interview | BookPage: Diane Setterfield has captivated readers around the world with her intricately woven tales, but the bestselling British novelist admits that creating them has affected her in unexpected ways. Most recently, with the publication of her third book, Once Upon a River, she’s been seeing rivers everywhere, even when looking at things like leaf patterns or cracks on a wall.

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar - The Map of Salt and Stars - Book Review

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Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar - The Map of Salt and Stars - Book Review: Among the many things the violence of war obliterates, perhaps the most malicious is history. Now in its seventh year, the civil war that has turned Syria into the site of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises has also corseted one of the oldest societies on earth into a kind of perpetual infancy.

Pietro Bartolo - Tears of Salt - Book Review

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Pietro Bartolo - Tears of Salt - Book Review: Pietro Bartolo runs the sole medical clinic in his homeland of Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island 70 miles off the coast of Tunisia that has become the gateway—and graveyard—for an unending stream of refugees trying to escape the varied horrors confronting them in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Sons and Soldiers: the Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler

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Bruce Henderson - Sons and Soldiers - Book Review: Sons and Soldiers, the new offering from bestselling author Bruce Henderson, is a compelling account of Jewish refugees who came to the U.S., then returned to Germany to fight against Hitler. Nearly 2,000 German-born soldiers of the U.S. Army were sent to the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie in Maryland.

Mary Gordon - There Your Heart Lies - Book Review

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Mary Gordon - There Your Heart Lies - Book Review: Mary Gordon has been writing compelling books about faith, love and family for four decades. In There Your Heart Lies, her eighth novel, she examines the ways political idealism and religious fanaticism shape the choices of a privileged but naive Catholic woman in the mid-20th century.

Fredrik Backman - Beartown - Book Review

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Fredrik Backman - Beartown - Book Review: Fredrik Backman’s heralded debut novel, A Man Called Ove, was a surprise bestseller that rose steadily in worldwide sales after its initial rejection by all but one publisher. Beartown is Backman’s fourth novel, the tale of the eponymous village on the edge of a forest—probably in Backman’s native Sweden—where ice hockey is the favored sport.

Mystery May: Clues to My Crime - Jane Harper - "The Dry"

"Clues to My Crime" is a BookList feature where authors explain their inspiration behind their latest work of crime fiction.  Jane Harper's debut thriller, "The Dry", is set in Australia and has the main character, Federal Agent Aaron Falk, coming home to attend his best friend's funeral.  Falk left his hometown after being accussed of murder, which his best friend was his alibi. But now one person knows they didn't tell the truth back then and it's up to Falk to figure out what happened to his best friend.

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"My Life with Bob" - Pamela Paul Interview from BookPage

"My Life with Bob", the new memoir by New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul is available as a physical book.  Just FYI, Bob is not a person.  It is Pamela's "Book of Books", a journal in which she has recorded every books she's read for 28 years.  Go to our catalog to put on hold or call (843)849-6161 to put on hold.

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Pamela Paul - Interview: While working a dead-end job in my mid-20s, I spent several hours setting up an Excel spreadsheet in which I listed every book I could think of that I’d ever read, starting with The Wind in the Willows. I devotedly logged each subsequent book into that spreadsheet until sometime around age 28, when I lost track of it in the shuffle of changing jobs.

Peter Heller - Celine - Book Review

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Peter Heller - Celine - Book Review: Celine is nearly 70. She’s an elegant woman with an excellent education and a mastery of her native French. She enjoys a quiet life with her husband, Pete—he cooks, she sculpts. Sometimes she calls her grown son on the phone and mildly lectures him about his love life. Oh, and Celine is also a private detective, once recruited by the FBI, and she occasionally takes a case that requires her and Pete to Pack up their tracking equipment and cameras and take off across the globe to solve a mystery that's been eluding traditional law enforcement.  In those cases, Celine's weapons training comes in handy.  

Daniel J. Sharfstein - Thunder in the Mountains - Book Review

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Daniel J. Sharfstein - Thunder in the Mountains - Book Review: The Nez Perce War of 1877 was fought over a four-month period between the U.S. Army and various bands of Nez Perce Indians along a zigzagging, 1,200-mile course through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming and into Montana almost to the Canadian border. Neither side wanted the war, but both were relentless in its prosecution and equally given to committing atrocities.

Jess Kidd - Himself - Book Review

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Jess Kidd - Himself - Book Review: Mysterious and lyrical, Jess Kidd’s first novel, Himself, introduces the inhabitants of a village in County Mayo, Ireland, after the return of its most unfortunate son. Kidd wraps readers up in her tale like a mother swaddling a child—only in this case, not for safekeeping. In the curious village of Mulderrig, nothing is as safe as it seems.

George Saunders - Interview

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What is so unique about this audiobook is it has 166 narrators.  According to Time magazine, the publisher is applying for a Guiness World Record for most individuals' voices on a single audiobook.

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George Saunders - Interview: George Saunders, the prize-winning short story writer, waited a long time before he showed the beginnings of his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, to his wife, writer Paula Redick. “She reads my stuff and knows where on the emotional spectrum it lies. So if I do something clever, she’ll go, yeah, yeah, it’s clever. Or she might say, you typed this, you really typed...

The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston Book Review

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Douglas Preston - The Lost City of the Monkey God - Book Review: Let author Douglas Preston give testimony to the old adage: Truth is stranger than fiction. As the co-author, with Lincoln Child, of a series of bestselling suspense novels, Preston has explored mysteries involving sorcery, witchcraft and ancient secrets. Now he chronicles his own true-life adventures in a nonfiction book, The Lost City of the Monkey God. Preston’s quest is to find the...

Laurie Frankel - This Is How It Always Is - Book Review

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Laurie Frankel - This Is How It Always Is - Book Review: BookPage Top Pick in Fiction, February 2017 After four sons, Dr. Rosie Walsh and her husband, writer Penn Adams, thought maybe—just maybe—their fifth child would be a girl, Poppy, named for Rosie’s deceased sister. But instead, the baby was another boy, Claude. Until he decided he wasn’t. The revelation didn’t shake the Walsh-Adamses.

Other books by Laurie Frankel are Goodbye for Now and The Atlas of Love.

The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers Book Review

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Susan Rivers - The Second Mrs. Hockaday - Book Review: It’s fitting for a Civil War-era story to be told in letters: The excruciating wait between each hoped-for missive is mirrored in this debut novel’s slow and gradual denouement. Author and playwright Susan Rivers employs not only letters, but also diary entries and inquest reports to tell a story loosely based in fact. In The Second Mrs. Hockaday, Placidia Fincher, young and newly...

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden - Book Review

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Katherine Arden - The Bear and the Nightingale - Book Review: In her first novel, The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden has created a coming-of-age story rooted in folklore, set in the Russian wilderness and surrounded by the magic of winter.  In 14th-century Russia, Vasya is an unusual girl—wild and strong, perceptive and brave—who grew up captivated by her family’s frightening tales and legends. But when Vasya finds the...