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audiobook but when it came up, I didn’t remember at first what the book was about; the beginning reads like fiction

Poet Maggie Smith's memoir traces the end of her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while The book is made up of many short sections, and much of Smith's exploration is focused on the way in

“We are, on this earth, so incredibly small, in the history of time, in the crowd of the world, we are

Blake Crouch writes character-driven science fiction that I love (Dark Matter is another of his that I adore a character-driven science-fiction tale. Also, time travel! This totally hit the spot.

But issues of race and their inextricable involvement in our nation's history are really the bedrock

But disaster strikes, and Jax finds herself trying to unravel the twisted, complicated history of her family and its land--a history Lexie had been researching and had become obsessed by.

Sometimes I find that I have to suspend my disbelief about human behavior in order to delve into a light fiction

moment with some implausible early details in Holidaze, which I sometimes struggle with in lighter fiction

disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—she begins a quest to discover the truth about her history judgment leads to another, foolish choices end in bloodshed, and one brother makes justifications for his actions builds the pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering truths, family history

Kalb shares rip-roaring tales of family history; Bobby's distinct pride in generations of the family

complicate Jill and Kit's finances, but threaten Kit's identity and shake the family's sense of personal history

involving unapologetic body positivity, and I hope Bea doesn't fall into the somewhat common light fiction

country--and her journalistic discoveries threaten to unearth the painful secrets of Smita's own family history

Morris A faction of my book club attends (virtually, the past couple of years) our local Library Foundation's

essential to the productive understanding of the past and current racial situation, including a basic history person of color (and, more importantly, listening without defensiveness), how "the antidote to guilt is action reading this or other books on race and anti-racism that you recommend for a better understanding of history So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo is wonderfully actionable, and Raising White Kids: Bringing

In Rachel Hawkins's new mystery The Wife Upstairs, each of the main players and their histories aren't But each of these characters turned out to be hiding elements of their histories that put into context

One faction wants to use the horrifying knowledge of Nazi doctors who enacted abuse and torture upon the machinations of the Nazis or offer background on the politics of the American and British postwar factions

feels compelled to take another path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other seemingly odd action In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships

This book traces the history of the Tearling as a kingdom crushed by famine, feudalism, corruption, greed Elyssa recalls that the history shared by her tutor Lady Glynn was made up of: "...tales of good, but book in the trilogy is the widespread suffering (and significant effect on the plot) caused by the actions

of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History

the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious and complicated) history

Female characters--as well as their female friends and relatives who appear in retold stories and histories and bravery required by Rum's female characters--but also many other real-life women--to write a new history

The bad-character/good-character split is pretty clear, with purely evil actions set against hearts of Legend touches on but doesn't fully explore potentially intriguing aspects of Lu's world--the history

into Hazard's wonder at new experiences and his and other characters' perspectives on the world and history

"What strategies will help our children learn to function well in a diverse nation? With the goal of bringing up children "who are able, engaged, and high-functioning when it comes to matters

sacrificed everything to get her to the top, setting records that have cemented her place in tennis history

She weaves more than thirty songs into her stories and personal history, and the placement of the music

villages of her home country--and threatens to unearth the secrets of Smita's own family and their history

discoveries of the famous ornithologist John James Audubon in this combination of biography/memoir, art, history

builds the pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering truths, family history

feels compelled to take another path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other seemingly odd action In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships

They return to Beirut, each broken in a way, each searching for home, fulfillment, history, peace, or

make ends meet in California and drifting a little bit--oh, and she's been telling her parents about fictitious

I was most struck by the character-driven World War II sections, which were haunting and lovely. But don’t forget that history isn’t just a study in black and white.

last week) courtesy of NetGalley and Random House. 03 Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu In an alternate history

: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups by Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz "...I never really wanted

01 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green Everything

their own complications and pain--and which he seems to resent), and linking much of his inability to function

including Bill Laimbeer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Danny Ainge, and Charles Oakley. 02 Why We Love Baseball: A History

Grande digs into her family's complicated history of trauma, disappointment, struggle, and, for some

the stories across time, he also set up rich glimpses into characters' lives at different points in history

Excruciatingly awkward sexual missteps and repeated details about her bodily functions, not so much.

and they can order almost anything they don't have in stock. 01 How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History

and backgrounds in those books, I find myself actively trying to separate this immersive, love-filled fictional

With gorgeous National Parks photography and fascinating National Parks history, this is perfect for

The book was published in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History's extensive exhibition

There's a book within a book here, and the fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder

North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving the essential history

write "in the hopes that what I write and say, and what others write and say, will inform and inspire action the desire to remove the pressure on people of color to be walking Google sources for experience and history often-traditional colorblind approaches to race; and how guilt can paralyze and prevent productive action

North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving the essential history