by Elizabeth Strout
Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout (My Name Is Lucy Barton; Anything Is Possible) has the remarkable ability to engage audiences immediately with just a few opening sentences. Her marvelous eighth novel, Oh William!, is no different, made even more inviting by continuing her Amgash series. Reading all three in chronological order promises gratifying insights, but, as with all of Strout's work, each title is satisfying on its own.
"I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William,"
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by Rebecca Solnit
It is no surprise that a writer as talented as Rebecca Solnit (Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir) considers George Orwell, who once wrote that "good prose is like a windowpane," to be "a foundational influence on my own meander toward becoming an essayist." In Orwell's Roses, she repays some of her debt by viewing her subject's work through the prism of his connection to the natural world.
Solnit's touchstone is the roses Orwell planted, in 1936, at the cottage he rented in the Hertfordshire
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by Brandy Colbert
For decades, one of the most distressing acts of racial violence in the United States, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, had been largely suppressed. But the events that led up to the horrendous attack against a prominent African American community in Tulsa, Okla., are illuminated for teen readers in the year of its centennial anniversary, with a riveting and fearlessly written narrative by author Brandy Colbert (The Voting Booth; Little & Lion).
In the early hours of June 1, 1921, a mob of white people crossed
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