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Our Narrow Hiding Places

Jansma (Why We Came to the City) shows the impact of generational trauma in one family. Book clubs and readers of World War II fiction will enjoy his perceptive take on survival, family, and starting over.

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative

Interspersed with photos, descriptions of pertinent historical events, drawings, and digitized archival documents, this excellent biography will appeal to many readers, especially those interested in genealogy, literature, and African American history.
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The Librarianist

The Booker Prize–shortlisted deWitt creates an endearing character in Bob Comet, who, at the age of 72, and after a lifetime of low expectations, finds life’s answers and the friends he deeply needs. This novel begs to be read.
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Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

Overall, Beard’s life reads like the adventure it was. Recommended for both general interest readers and photography enthusiasts.

Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began

A revelatory, straightforward, and important work.

Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power

A powerful investigative work that is likely to circulate well with patrons interested in political science and sociology titles.
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Touch

Olafsson’s treatment of the vast cultural chasm between Icelander Kristófer, and Miko, shaped by the bombing of Hiroshima shortly before she was born, brings suspense and heartache to the reader.
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Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom

A heartbreaking and tense narrative of discovery and escape.

Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary: Stories

Francine Prose’s preface aptly praises Kaplan’s “paradoxically scathing and compassionate insight” into characters revealed in the midst of an uncertain present, poised between Old World and New. A rare gem, recovered.
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