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Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder, Christmas in Camelot by Mary Pope Osbourne, and Burning Down The House by Tim Mohr.
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February 2020
- Feb 22, 2020 Conjure Women - Afia Atakora Feb 22, 2020
- Feb 20, 2020 Migrating to Prison - César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández Feb 20, 2020
- Feb 16, 2020 George Orwell - Facing Unpleasant Facts Feb 16, 2020
- Feb 16, 2020 Suncatcher - Romesh Gunesekera Feb 16, 2020
- Feb 11, 2020 The Shape of Family - Shilpi Somaya Gowda Feb 11, 2020
- Feb 9, 2020 That Hair - Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida Feb 9, 2020
- Feb 8, 2020 Connie Greshner - Borderline Shine Feb 8, 2020
- Feb 7, 2020 Lost in Ghost Town - Carder Stout Feb 7, 2020
- Feb 6, 2020 Our Women on the Ground - Edited by Zahra Hankir Feb 6, 2020
- Feb 3, 2020 The Fire and the Darkness - Sinclair McKay Feb 3, 2020
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January 2020
- Jan 30, 2020 Bilingual Personalized Books by TimTimTom - Multicultural Children's Book Day 2020 Jan 30, 2020
- Jan 26, 2020 Children of the Stars - Mario Escobar Jan 26, 2020
- Jan 25, 2020 The Unexpected Spy - Tracy Walder Jan 25, 2020
- Jan 22, 2020 When Time Stopped - Ariana Neumann Jan 22, 2020
- Jan 16, 2020 Apeirogon: A Novel - Colum McCann Jan 16, 2020
- Jan 9, 2020 Saint X - Alexis Schaitkin Jan 9, 2020
- Jan 4, 2020 On Black Sister's Street - Chika Unigwe Jan 4, 2020
- Jan 2, 2020 1947 Where Now Begins - Elisabeth Åsbrink Jan 2, 2020
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December 2019
- Dec 28, 2019 A Pure Heart - Rajia Hassib Dec 28, 2019
- Dec 26, 2019 We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo Dec 26, 2019
- Dec 10, 2019 Gabi, A Girl in Pieces - Isabel Quintero Dec 10, 2019
- Dec 7, 2019 The Light After The War - Anita Abriel Dec 7, 2019
- Dec 1, 2019 Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide - Isabel Quintero Dec 1, 2019
- Dec 1, 2019 The Kosher Delhi - Ivan Wainewright Dec 1, 2019
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November 2019
- Nov 30, 2019 The Art of Resistance - Justus Rosenberg Nov 30, 2019
- Nov 29, 2019 The Knife-Edge Path - Patrick T. Leahy Nov 29, 2019
- Nov 24, 2019 Hidden In The Shadows - Imogen Matthews Nov 24, 2019
- Nov 16, 2019 Know My Name - Chanel Miller Nov 16, 2019
- Nov 9, 2019 Patrick J. Sloyan - When Reagan Sent In The Marines Nov 9, 2019
- Nov 2, 2019 Rife - Edited by Nikesh Shukla Nov 2, 2019
- Nov 2, 2019 The Witch Elm - Tana French Nov 2, 2019
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October 2019
- Oct 25, 2019 Agent Jack - Robert Hutton Oct 25, 2019
- Oct 23, 2019 The Trespasser - Tana French Oct 23, 2019
- Oct 12, 2019 The Writer - J.C. Maetis Oct 12, 2019
- Oct 12, 2019 The Silent Messenger - Tom & Dorothy Hopkinson Oct 12, 2019
- Oct 6, 2019 There You Are - Mathea Morais Oct 6, 2019
- Oct 2, 2019 What God Is Honored Here? - Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang Oct 2, 2019
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September 2019
- Sep 30, 2019 Mrs Everything - Jennifer Weiner Sep 30, 2019
- Sep 27, 2019 Ribbons of Scarlet Sep 27, 2019
- Sep 21, 2019 Motherhood So White - Nefertiti Austin Sep 21, 2019
- Sep 20, 2019 The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste Sep 20, 2019
- Sep 15, 2019 Renia's Diary - Renia Spiegel Sep 15, 2019
- Sep 15, 2019 The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates Sep 15, 2019
- Sep 8, 2019 The World That We Knew - Alice Hoffman Sep 8, 2019
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August 2019
- Aug 27, 2019 Out of Darkness, Shining Light - Petina Gappah Aug 27, 2019
- Aug 20, 2019 Cilka's Journey - Heather Morris Aug 20, 2019
- Aug 10, 2019 Modern Sudanese Poetry - Adil Babikir Aug 10, 2019
- Aug 4, 2019 In The Warsaw Ghetto - Glenn Haybittle Aug 4, 2019
- Aug 2, 2019 The Pretty One - Keah Brown Aug 2, 2019
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July 2019
- Jul 27, 2019 We Are All Good People Here - Susan Rebecca White Jul 27, 2019
- Jul 24, 2019 At The Narrow Waist Of The World - Marlena Maduro Baraf Jul 24, 2019
- Jul 24, 2019 Ayesha At Last - Uzma Jalaluddin Jul 24, 2019
- Jul 21, 2019 I'll Be Gone In The Dark - Michelle McNamara Jul 21, 2019
- Jul 15, 2019 The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris Jul 15, 2019
- Jul 7, 2019 Don't Date Rosa Santos - Nina Moreno Jul 7, 2019
- Jul 5, 2019 The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story - Aaron Bobrow-Strain Jul 5, 2019
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June 2019
- Jun 24, 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid Jun 24, 2019
- Jun 15, 2019 The Huntress - Kate Quinn Jun 15, 2019
- Jun 14, 2019 Last Witnesses - Svetlana Alexievich Jun 14, 2019
- Jun 12, 2019 The Sadness of Geography - Logathasan Tharmathurai Jun 12, 2019
- Jun 11, 2019 Razia - Abda Khan Jun 11, 2019
- Jun 7, 2019 This Land Is Our Land - Suketu Mehta Jun 7, 2019
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May 2019
- May 18, 2019 I Have Lost My Way - Gayle Forman May 18, 2019
- May 16, 2019 Father Sweet - J.J. Martin May 16, 2019
- May 12, 2019 Love Thy Neighbor - Ayaz Virji, M.D. and Alan Eisenstock May 12, 2019
- May 12, 2019 All We Knew But Couldn't Say - Joanne Vannicola May 12, 2019
- May 10, 2019 I Like To Watch - Emily Nussbaum May 10, 2019
- May 5, 2019 How To Make Friends With The Dark - Kathleen Glasgow May 5, 2019
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April 2019
- Apr 30, 2019 The Power - Naomi Alderman Apr 30, 2019
- Apr 28, 2019 The Travelers - Regina Porter Apr 28, 2019
- Apr 19, 2019 Internment - Samira Ahmed Apr 19, 2019
- Apr 16, 2019 Hippie - Paulo Coelho Apr 16, 2019
- Apr 14, 2019 Last Day - Domenica Ruta Apr 14, 2019
- Apr 12, 2019 Feminism - Deborah Cameron Apr 12, 2019
- Apr 8, 2019 Invisible Heroes of World War II - Jerry Borrowman Apr 8, 2019
- Apr 6, 2019 The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman Apr 6, 2019
- Apr 4, 2019 The Red Daughter - John Burnham Schwartz Apr 4, 2019
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March 2019
- Mar 28, 2019 The Parisian - Isabella Hammad Mar 28, 2019
- Mar 23, 2019 On The Come Up - Angie Thomas Mar 23, 2019
- Mar 16, 2019 Sanctuary Somewhere - Brenna Dimmig Mar 16, 2019
- Mar 16, 2019 The Village - Philip Duke Mar 16, 2019
- Mar 10, 2019 Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams Mar 10, 2019
- Mar 8, 2019 How We Fight White Supremacy - Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin Mar 8, 2019
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February 2019
- Feb 27, 2019 War Flower - Brooke King Feb 27, 2019
- Feb 19, 2019 The Art Of Leaving - Ayelet Tsabari Feb 19, 2019
- Feb 16, 2019 We Are Not Refugees - Agus Morales Feb 16, 2019
- Feb 10, 2019 We Must Be Brave - Frances Liardet Feb 10, 2019
- Feb 5, 2019 The Pianist From Syria - Aeham Ahmad Feb 5, 2019
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January 2019
- Jan 29, 2019 Monopoli Blues - Tim Clark and Nick Cook Jan 29, 2019
- Jan 25, 2019 The Montreal Shtetl - Zelda Abramson & John Lynch Jan 25, 2019
- Jan 19, 2019 The Bold World - Jodie Patterson Jan 19, 2019
- Jan 13, 2019 House of Stone - Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Jan 13, 2019
- Jan 7, 2019 Thick - Tressie McMillan Cottom Jan 7, 2019
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December 2018
- Dec 31, 2018 Lights All Night Long - Lydia Fitzpatrick Dec 31, 2018
- Dec 29, 2018 2018 in Books Dec 29, 2018
- Dec 27, 2018 The Things We Cannot Say - Kelly Rimmer Dec 27, 2018
- Dec 19, 2018 The Memory Of Love - Aminatta Forna Dec 19, 2018
- Dec 10, 2018 This Is Cuba - David Ariosto Dec 10, 2018
- Dec 2, 2018 Wunderland - Jennifer Cody Epstein Dec 2, 2018
- Dec 1, 2018 Dear Los Angeles - David Kipen Dec 1, 2018
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November 2018
- Nov 29, 2018 Striking At The Roots - Mark Hawthorne Nov 29, 2018
- Nov 23, 2018 Hearts Among Ourselves - A. Happy Umwagarwa Nov 23, 2018
- Nov 10, 2018 Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi Nov 10, 2018
- Nov 2, 2018 What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape - Sohaila Abdulali Nov 2, 2018
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October 2018
- Oct 21, 2018 The Hidden Star - K. Sello Duiker Oct 21, 2018
- Oct 18, 2018 Stay With Me - Ayobami Adebayo Oct 18, 2018
- Oct 17, 2018 Well-Read Black Girl - Glory Edim Oct 17, 2018
- Oct 4, 2018 Heavy - Kiese Laymon Oct 4, 2018
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September 2018
- Sep 26, 2018 Heart Berries - Terese Marie Mailhot Sep 26, 2018
- Sep 22, 2018 I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown Sep 22, 2018
- Sep 21, 2018 Secret Son - Laila Lalami Sep 21, 2018
- Sep 18, 2018 A Dream Called Home - Reyna Grande Sep 18, 2018
- Sep 14, 2018 Let The Good Times Roll - Kenney Jones Sep 14, 2018
- Sep 10, 2018 The Orchard of Lost Souls - Nadifa Mohamed Sep 10, 2018
- Sep 7, 2018 Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward Sep 7, 2018
- Sep 5, 2018 Max and Menna - Shauna Kelley Sep 5, 2018
- Sep 3, 2018 A New Hope For Mexico - Andrés Manuel López Obrador Sep 3, 2018
- Sep 1, 2018 The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - Dinaw Mengestu Sep 1, 2018
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August 2018
- Aug 30, 2018 Promised Land - Martin Fletcher Aug 30, 2018
- Aug 28, 2018 Then They Started Shooting - Lynne Jones Aug 28, 2018
- Aug 27, 2018 Disturbed In Their Nests - Alephonsion Deng and Judy A. Bernstein Aug 27, 2018
- Aug 24, 2018 Beneath The Lion's Gaze - Maaza Mengiste Aug 24, 2018
- Aug 19, 2018 The Rain Watcher - Tatiana de Rosnay Aug 19, 2018
- Aug 16, 2018 We All Love The Beautiful Girls - Joanne Proulx Aug 16, 2018
- Aug 12, 2018 Name of the Dog - Elmer Mendoza Aug 12, 2018
- Aug 11, 2018 Ohio - Stephen Markley Aug 11, 2018
- Aug 7, 2018 The Lost Family - Jenna Blum Aug 7, 2018
- Aug 5, 2018 Auschwitz Lullaby - Mario Escobar Aug 5, 2018
- Aug 3, 2018 Goodbye, Paris - Anstey Harris Aug 3, 2018
- Aug 2, 2018 The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin Aug 2, 2018
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July 2018
- Jul 31, 2018 If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar Jul 31, 2018
- Jul 29, 2018 The Orphan's Tale - Pam Jenoff Jul 29, 2018
- Jul 25, 2018 Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras Jul 25, 2018
- Jul 19, 2018 The Diplomat's Daughter - Karin Tanabe Jul 19, 2018
- Jul 16, 2018 The Drama Teacher - Koren Zailcka Jul 16, 2018
- Jul 13, 2018 Entangled Lives - Imran Omer Jul 13, 2018
- Jul 10, 2018 How To Love A Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs Jul 10, 2018
- Jul 6, 2018 American Hate - Arjun Singh Sethi Jul 6, 2018
- Jul 2, 2018 Butterfly - Yusra Mardini Jul 2, 2018
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June 2018
- Jun 28, 2018 At The Dark End Of The Street - Danielle L. McGuire Jun 28, 2018
- Jun 18, 2018 The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas Jun 18, 2018
- Jun 11, 2018 Suicide Club - Rachel Heng Jun 11, 2018
- Jun 5, 2018 The Middleman - Olen Steinhauer Jun 5, 2018
- Jun 1, 2018 Orchid and the Wasp - Caoilinn Hughes Jun 1, 2018
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May 2018
- May 27, 2018 If You See Me, Don't Say Hi - Neel Patel May 27, 2018
- May 25, 2018 The Myth of Perpetual Summer - Susan Crandall May 25, 2018
- May 22, 2018 The House We Grew Up In - Lisa Jewell May 22, 2018
- May 21, 2018 Dear Mrs. Bird - AJ Pearce May 21, 2018
- May 18, 2018 Orphan Monster Spy - Matt Killeen May 18, 2018
- May 16, 2018 America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo May 16, 2018
- May 11, 2018 A Better Place - Pati Navalta Poblete May 11, 2018
- May 9, 2018 The Line Becomes a River - Francisco Cantú May 9, 2018
- May 3, 2018 Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City - Mike Katz & Crispin Kott May 3, 2018
- May 2, 2018 Pretend I'm Dead - Jen Beagin May 2, 2018
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April 2018
- Apr 30, 2018 Behold The Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue Apr 30, 2018
- Apr 29, 2018 The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar Apr 29, 2018
- Apr 28, 2018 Then She Was Gone - Lisa Jewell Apr 28, 2018
- Apr 28, 2018 I Found You - Lisa Jewell Apr 28, 2018
- Apr 26, 2018 Enemies in Love - Alexis Clark Apr 26, 2018
- Apr 22, 2018 Lighting the Fires of Freedom - Janet Dewart Bell Apr 22, 2018
- Apr 19, 2018 Sold on a Monday - Kristina McMorris Apr 19, 2018
- Apr 17, 2018 Ayiti - Roxane Gay Apr 17, 2018
- Apr 16, 2018 One Life At A Time - Daniel Baxter Apr 16, 2018
- Apr 16, 2018 Stewie BOOM! and Princess Penelope: Handprints, Snowflakes and Play-Dates Apr 16, 2018
- Apr 15, 2018 All the Women in My Family Sing Apr 15, 2018
- Apr 12, 2018 Exit West - Mohsin Hamid Apr 12, 2018
- Apr 6, 2018 A Matter Of Conscience - James Bartleman Apr 6, 2018
- Apr 6, 2018 The Girl Who Smiled Beads - Clemantine Wamariya Apr 6, 2018
- Apr 4, 2018 You Think It, I'll Say It - Curtis Sittenfield Apr 4, 2018
- Apr 2, 2018 Brothers of the Gun - Marwan Hisham Apr 2, 2018
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March 2018
- Mar 30, 2018 The Language of Kindness - Christie Watson Mar 30, 2018
- Mar 29, 2018 Journey Through Genocide - Raffy Boudjikanian Mar 29, 2018
- Mar 27, 2018 The Come in All Colors - Malcolm Hansen Mar 27, 2018
- Mar 24, 2018 White Privilege - Kalwant Bhopal Mar 24, 2018
- Mar 22, 2018 The Dawn Prayer - Matthew Schrier Mar 22, 2018
- Mar 21, 2018 kisiskâciwan - Indigenous Voices from Where the River Flows Swiftly Mar 21, 2018
- Mar 19, 2018 Love and Ruin - Paula McLain Mar 19, 2018
- Mar 18, 2018 Manga Classics - The Scarlet Letter Mar 18, 2018
- Mar 17, 2018 Strip - Catlyn Ladd Mar 17, 2018
- Mar 17, 2018 People of Peace - Sandrine Mirza and Le Duo Mar 17, 2018
- Mar 16, 2018 The Sun Does Shine - Anthony Ray Hinton Mar 16, 2018
- Mar 13, 2018 Wild Nights- Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets Mar 13, 2018
- Mar 13, 2018 Melody's Unicorn - Richard Swan Mar 13, 2018
- Mar 10, 2018 Women of Resistance - Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan Mar 10, 2018
- Mar 9, 2018 The Incredible True Story of Blondy Baruti - Blondy Baruti Mar 9, 2018
- Mar 7, 2018 The Broken Girls - Simone St. James Mar 7, 2018
- Mar 6, 2018 Call Me Zebra - Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Mar 6, 2018
- Mar 5, 2018 Rethinking Incarceration - Dominique DuBois Gilliard Mar 5, 2018
- Mar 2, 2018 In Search of Our Warrior Mothers - La Donna Forsgren Mar 2, 2018
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February 2018
- Feb 28, 2018 The Room on Rue Amélie - Kristin Harmel Feb 28, 2018
- Feb 24, 2018 Graffiti Palace - A. G. Lombardo Feb 24, 2018
- Feb 21, 2018 Wrestling with the Devil - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Feb 21, 2018
- Feb 20, 2018 Sewing the Rainbow - Gayle E. Pitman Feb 20, 2018
- Feb 18, 2018 In A Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers - Bernice Yeung Feb 18, 2018
- Feb 16, 2018 Educated - Tara Westover Feb 16, 2018
- Feb 15, 2018 No One Else Like You - Siska Goeminne Feb 15, 2018
- Feb 14, 2018 F-bomb by Lauren McKeon Feb 14, 2018
- Feb 11, 2018 And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini Feb 11, 2018
- Feb 10, 2018 A Perilous Path - Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law Feb 10, 2018
- Feb 7, 2018 The Little Book of Feminist Saints - Julie Pierpoint Feb 7, 2018
- Feb 6, 2018 Be Brave by J. M. Farkas Feb 6, 2018
- Feb 5, 2018 Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko Feb 5, 2018
- Feb 3, 2018 Megan K. Stack - Every Man In This Village Is A Liar Feb 3, 2018
- Feb 3, 2018 The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots From A Hidden War Feb 3, 2018
- Feb 3, 2018 The Shadow of the Sun - Ryszard Kapuściński (Book Review) Feb 3, 2018
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January 2018
- Jan 27, 2018 Jupiter Elementary Activity Book: Space and Shapes - Book Review - MCBD2018 Jan 27, 2018
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November 2015
- Nov 27, 2015 Literature: C.J. Sansom's Winter in Madrid & Dominion Nov 27, 2015
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August 2014
- Aug 25, 2014 Literature: Legs Get Led Astray by Chloe Caldwell Aug 25, 2014
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November 2013
- Nov 29, 2013 Book Review: She Matters by Susanna Sonnenberg Nov 29, 2013
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July 2013
- Jul 31, 2013 Book Review: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Jul 31, 2013
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March 2013
- Mar 2, 2013 Book Review - Arcadia by Lauren Groff Mar 2, 2013
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September 2012
- Sep 24, 2012 Book Review: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Sep 24, 2012
- Sep 4, 2012 Book Review: My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf Sep 4, 2012
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July 2012
- Jul 31, 2012 Literature/Poetry: Megan Falley Jul 31, 2012
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June 2012
- Jun 28, 2012 Book Review: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Jun 28, 2012
- Jun 3, 2012 Book Review: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Jun 3, 2012
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May 2012
- May 27, 2012 Books/Graphic Novels: Sambre by Yslaire May 27, 2012
- May 22, 2012 Art & Poetry: Gabriel Dante Rossetti May 22, 2012
- May 10, 2012 Book Review: The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel May 10, 2012
- May 3, 2012 Book Review: Patti Smith - Just Kids May 3, 2012
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April 2012
- Apr 20, 2012 Book Review: Sold by Patricia McCormick Apr 20, 2012
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March 2012
- Mar 31, 2012 Literature: Favourite classic British novels/plays Mar 31, 2012
- Mar 26, 2012 Book Review: Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy Mar 26, 2012
- Mar 4, 2012 Book Review: Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann Mar 4, 2012
- Mar 4, 2012 Literature: William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIII Mar 4, 2012
- Mar 3, 2012 Book Reviews: Thirteen Reasons Why & The Fault In Our Stars Mar 3, 2012
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February 2012
- Feb 25, 2012 Book Review: Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz Feb 25, 2012
- Feb 20, 2012 Literature: Sylvia Plath and The Bell Jar Feb 20, 2012
- Feb 6, 2012 Book Review: They Poured Fire on Us From The Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan Feb 6, 2012
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January 2012
- Jan 31, 2012 Book Review: Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad Jan 31, 2012
- Jan 9, 2012 Poetry: Lord Byron - She Walks In Beauty Jan 9, 2012
- Jan 3, 2012 Marge Piercy's Gone To Soldiers: my favourite book of all time Jan 3, 2012
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October 2011
- Oct 22, 2011 Anthropology of an American Girl - review & musings Oct 22, 2011
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August 2011
- Aug 20, 2011 Machete Season by Jean Hatzfeld - Book Review Aug 20, 2011