Two eleven-year-old girls run out of the woods. Their friend has been murdered, they say. Only Naomi Shaw isn’t dead. She was stabbed seventeen times, once in the face. The girls, Liv, Cass, and Naomi, identify a man rumored for picking up hitchhiking women and killing them, and he is convicted. Now, several years later,
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When Emma Starling returns to her small New Hampshire town, she comes in disgrace. The former golden girl has not only flunked out of medical school but never even showed up to the first day! A natural-born healer, she’s dropped out of her own life and it’s sent her back home, where her father is
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In the current sociopolitical climate, people are having uncomfortable conversations about diversity. Divergent views about justice cause discomfort among many who fear being “canceled” or ostracized for saying the wrong thing. Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, founders of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at the NYU School of Law, offer practical advice
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Ayobami Adebayo’s latest novel A Spell of Good Things is set in her homeland of Nigeria and positions two seemingly dissimilar characters in proximity to one another in a way that changes them both. Teenage Eniola struggles with the reality of his family’s poverty. The novel opens with the young boy being spat upon by a newspaper
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Story Summary Big Bear thinks they know how things are supposed to be for the cub: Don’t run too fast. Don’t get your feet wet. Do what the “good” bears are doing. Never stray from the traditional path. But Big Bear’s got a cub on their paws that just wants to go their own way.
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Story Summary: She is a rebel. Lilla is fighting for the refugees’s freedom from oppression. The king, her father, lost touch with reality ever since Lilla’s mother died. Now everyone else is paying the price. The arrival of Callum, a powerful Teryn general, complicates Lilla’s life. His presence leads to conflicted feelings and friction with
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Book Summary: In The Parlay Effect: How Female Connection Can Change the World, Anne Devereux-Mills uses her insights as Founder of Parlay House to show how small actions can create a cascade of positive change — in your life and in the lives of others. A former advertising agency CEO, Devereux-Mills tells the inspiring story
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Book Summary: A Monster Escapes is a character driven horror story that explores all the shades of gray in life. When a demon strikes the small town of Brettville there is only one woman to call. Jane Elring knows what monsters look like. She stares them down on the regular, working as a psychic detective
Read MoreBook Summary: In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death camps. Izaak is a young Jewish boy whose positive outlook is challenged daily as each new perilous situation comes along. American citizens, Herbert Müller and
Read MoreGift Guide Book Suggestion #6 Book Summary: Join endangered and misunderstood AYE-AYE on his quest to win back the hearts of the people of Madagascar after his mischievous pranks get him banned from his favorite village and labelled bad luck. Luckily for AYE-AYE, he meets a new friend who shows him first-hand how unpleasant being
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