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- Review of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
abusing natural resources, as well as the questionable morality of private or museum ownership of other cultures
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music
musical explorations to her explosion into an unparalleled superstar, exploring her life's path to cultural
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
The janitor is a cultural outsider with a complicated history, and what he lacks in training he makes her oft-frustrated ambition, her personal journey of reconsidering her assumptions about the Tiranish culture
- Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Sports and Recreation Nonfiction
fraught nature of role models, the tension between expectation and achievement, how sports shape our culture's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural
- Review of Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang
The janitor is a cultural outsider with a complicated history, and what he lacks in training he makes her oft-frustrated ambition, her personal journey of reconsidering her assumptions about the Tiranish culture
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/11/24 Edition
The janitor is a cultural outsider with a complicated history, and what he lacks in training he makes
- Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In
relatives who shaped her life but are not, after all, blood relations; she reflects on her religious and cultural
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
glimpses into the challenges and triumphs of leaving one land and tackling another; striving to hold on to culture Pachinko is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese cultural powerless and essentially voiceless statuses of her female characters within their conservative Arab culture
- Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
Seventeen-year-old girls aren't safe on their own, so Jess cuts her hair, binds her chest, and saddles to get to San Antonio, and Johanna isn't a willing participant in this venture, having become more culturally
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
But Roberts's memoir doesn't merely explore her culture shock, as interesting as that is.
- Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
being partnered with dragons, dragon-related science, emotional and physical ties to dragons, and the cultural
- Review of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Their cultures conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition
Their cultures conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen Pylväinen's novel explores the cooperation and conflict among cultures Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions duties at the expense of their romantic happiness, witnessed various horrors, and yet recognized and cultivated
- Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
Pylväinen's novel explores the cooperation and conflict among cultures in a mid-nineteenth century community Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions
- Review of Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh
duties at the expense of their romantic happiness, witnessed various horrors, and yet recognized and cultivated
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
being partnered with dragons, dragon-related science, emotional and physical ties to dragons, and the cultural
- Review of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose
being partnered with dragons, dragon-related science, emotional and physical ties to dragons, and the cultural
- Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
I was fascinated by Gawande's study of our culture's never-give-up mentality and many loved ones' resulting
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads
Romantic Comedy. 12 Maame by Jessica George Jessica George's debut Maame takes on big issues of race, culture , and the challenges of growing up between two cultures while shining in its details: wonderful dialogue lies and betrayal, and underneath it all, the constant, stressful push and pull between Maddie's two cultures
- Review of Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
On Sunday, we slathered brioche with cultured butter, dolloped crème fraîche on daubes, and spooned a
- Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Books about Media, Movies, and Music
Simon Price I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum (The New Yorker culture Underground, and his early days on the Lower East Side of New York--all while examining New York itself as a cultural
- Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
greedy young woman, staggeringly unaware of her faults and lacking perspective or understanding of cultural
- Review of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
In her memoir They Called Us Exceptional, Prachi Gupta explores her Indian American culture, her parents
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/6/23 Edition
In her memoir, Gupta explores her Indian American culture, her parents' expectations, society's pressures
- Review of Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
North Carolina artist, mother, and wife struggling with the conflicting pressures of her Palestinian culture realizes that the dreaded, looming specter of divorce, which is considered a life-ruining choice in her culture
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/16/23 Edition
a space opera, Some Desperate Glory; and I'm listening to Evil Eye, Etaf Rum's newest fiction about culture
- Review of This House Is Not a Home by Katlia
Indigenous people and the devastating consequences of greed, the abuse of power, and a disregard for other cultures Indigenous children kidnapped and sent to residential schools, homes snatched, traditions erased, and a culture He and others in his culture are made to feel less-than because the rules of the game have changed--hunting It details the goings-on at an Indian Training School and the "restructuring" that cut off many American Indians from their culture, their families, and their history and traditions.
- Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
She recalls how as a young woman she felt hemmed in by hippie culture and also by the societal opposition
- Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
one so far. 01 True Biz by Sara Nović True Biz is a coming-of-age story, a beginner's primer on Deaf culture present political and social pushes concerning American Sign Language, cochlear implants, and Deaf culture I learned about Deaf history, culture, and the politics that have disrupted and damaged those in the Time Tomorrow indulged my own personal desire for sentimentality, while also emphasizing the value of cutting
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/6/23 Edition
Inciting Joy, he explores the joy in our interactions with each other, their importance, and how to cultivate
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
01 Maame by Jessica George Jessica George's debut Maame takes on big issues of race, culture, and the challenges of growing up between two cultures while shining in its details: wonderful dialogue, messy lies and betrayal, and underneath it all, the constant, stressful push and pull between Maddie's two cultures
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/30/23 Edition
With humor, heartbreak, and the constant push and pull between two cultures, Maame explores Maddie's
- Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year
Peralta, a 68-year-old comedian who's been making a recent comeback--is dead in the bathtub with a cut inevitable publicity, the fiction of her current life--a peaceful, comfortable life that she spent so long cultivating
- Review of Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
nonjudgmental exploration of various sexual and emotional responses to try to counterbalance "...a cultural
- Review of Maame by Jessica George
Jessica George's debut Maame takes on big issues of race, culture, and the challenges of growing up between two cultures while shining in its details: wonderful dialogue, messy moments, and the main character's lies and betrayal, and underneath it all, the constant, stressful push and pull between Maddie's two cultures
- Review of Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
befriends her mother's neighbors and begins working for the charming complex's owner, all the while cultivating
- Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas
referencing, each section has key information, dates, births, deaths, and moments that have shaped our culture The Nineties: A Book, Chuck Klosterman explores the pivotal movies, music, events, politics, TV, and culture
- Shhh! Coffee Table Bossy Book Gift Ideas
all-new information on featured countries, including when to visit, how to immerse yourself in the culture through food and drink, music and culture, and more. stunning photos from Chin's vast portfolio of breathtaking photographs, captured during two decades of cutting-edge
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
its heart), a fictionalized memoir, a story of 1980s-set fiction, and a contemporary novel about Deaf culture Scarlet Women. 03 True Biz by Sara Nović True Biz is a coming-of-age story, a beginner's primer on Deaf culture present political and social pushes concerning American Sign Language, cochlear implants, and Deaf culture I learned about Deaf history, culture, and the politics that have disrupted and damaged those in the
- Review of True Biz by Sara Nović
True Biz is a coming-of-age story, a beginner's primer on Deaf culture, and a captivating novel about present political and social pushes concerning American Sign Language, cochlear implants, and Deaf culture I learned about Deaf history, culture, and the politics that have disrupted and damaged those in the
- My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022
We also read Betty, We Are Not Like Them, All Her Little Secrets, Cultish, Beautiful Country, and These
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
But Roberts's memoir doesn't merely explore her culture shock, as interesting as that is.
- Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite
whisking the reader off to Jordan, to upstate New York, and back again, illustrating the melding of her cultures I found his framework of knowledge along with his wonder about the foods and cultures he was exploring
- Review of In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road #2) by Rachel Hartman
The sharing of stories and folklore through generations and cultures was a small-scale highlight.
- Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads
and political individuals and entities to not only cover up instances but altogether deny an existing culture
- Six More Backlist Favorites to Check Out
powerless and essentially voiceless status of her female characters within their conservative Arab culture
- Review of Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and is also the author of Evvie Drake Starts Over
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/8/22 Edition
Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and is also the author of Evvie Drake Starts Over
- Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
Peralta, a 68-year-old comedian who's been making a recent comeback--is dead in the bathtub with a cut inevitable publicity, the fiction of her current life--a peaceful, comfortable life that she spent so long cultivating














































