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The Network Sage
"The Network Sage" is a useful and well-researched self-help book that forwards methods for analyzing and changing relationships for the better. Glenna Crooks’s inclusive and enlightening self-help book, "The Network Sage", includes...
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Sarah Ann Jenyns (1865-1952)
The book’s tone is unbiased, formal, and scholarly, focused on an unlikely success story as well as on the cracks beneath. Patricia Anne Jenyns’s biography, Sarah Ann Jenyns, is an inspirational and historical account of an esteemed...
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The Beekeeper
"The Beekeeper" is Dunya Mikhail’s haunting account of Abdullah, who devoted his life to rescuing mostly Yazidi women and children kidnapped and kept captive by the Daesh, aka the Islamic State. The book includes autobiographical...
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Deir Al Lauz
This beautiful allegorical novel highlights the heartrending issues of Palestinians and refugees with a magical style. "Deir Al Lauz", written by Lama Sakhnini and translated by Sabrina Sakhnini, is a harrowing and stylish novel that...
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The Telling Image
Stark persuasively draws unlikely connections between skyscrapers and sexism, grid cities and loneliness, the internet and sustainability. Lois Farfel Stark’s "The Telling Image" is a wondrous and sweeping book that accomplishes a...
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The Slave
"The Slave" is a compact self-help book with exceptional accessibility and a profundity that encourages repeat reads. "The Slave" by Anand Dílvar deftly combines a fictional narrative with inspiring philosophy and advice, resulting in a...
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Lord of California
This dystopian novel is poetic even in its austerity. Andrew Valencia’s dystopian "Lord of California" is set in rural, isolated California a few decades after it disbands from the United States. When Elliot Temple dies, each of his...
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All Those Things We Never Said
All Those Things is heartfelt, a delightful and funny tale of loves lost and found. Genuine heart, humor, and joy make "All Those Things We Never Said" charming, even if its elements of sci-fi feel slightly gimmicky. Written by Mark...