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1 week ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Carole V. Bell |Lauren LeBlanc |Wadzanai Mhute |Daneet Steffens |Kate Tuttle |Chris Vognar
Books are a year-round pleasure, but summer reading is an institution. As children, we read voraciously (whether for joy or to win prizes). As adults, summer is often the only time we can really lose ourselves in a book. Whether you’re looking for a romance novel to toss into your beach bag or something more mysterious to read on the lake house dock, this list of 75 books has something for every kind of reader.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Wadzanai Mhute
Moroccan American author Laila Lalami is a chronicler of cultures and an observer of human behavior toward marginalized communities. Her fifth book, “The Dream Hotel,” continues in that vein, exploring how far surveillance can go in a government’s attempts to stifle human rights. The novel begins as Sara Hussein, an archivist at the Getty Museum, is detained at LAX on her return from a conference in London.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
wadzanai.substack.com | Wadzanai Mhute
Dr. Chido Muchemwa is a Zimbabwean author living in Canada. She has won numerous awards for her work including the Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship in 2022. “Who Will Bury You? And Other Short Stories” will be published on October 8th, 2024, by House of Anansi Press. Expertly written, these twelve stories stand alone but are connected through characters who experience loss, displacement, and complicated familial relationships. Wadzanai’s All Things Books is a reader-supported publication.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
wadzanai.substack.com | Wadzanai Mhute
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
clarin.com | Wadzanai Mhute
Chigozie Obioma ha hecho carrera en la escritura, y con mucho éxito: ha publicado dos novelas, ambas finalistas del Premio Booker, y ha ganado una docena de premios más. Pero escribir fue su segunda opción, dijo. Su primer sueño era jugar al fútbol. Obioma fue el quinto de doce hermanos de padres igbo de la ciudad de Akure, sudoeste de Nigeria.
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May 24, 2024 | 
wadzanai.substack.com | Wadzanai Mhute
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
oprahdaily.com | Wadzanai Mhute |Hamilton Cain |McKenzie Jean-Philippe
Our editors handpick the products that we feature. We may earn commission from the links on this page. You should always celebrate Black voices (not just during Black history month), and literature is one of the best ways to honor some of the community’s most illuminating stories. Thanks to the work of African American authors, the world can better understand both the struggles and triumphs of Black people in America.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
lmtonline.com | Christine Platt |Catherine Greene |Wadzanai Mhute
- - - If we are to believe Carl Jung's declaration that life begins at 40 ("up until then, you are just doing research"), then Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene's "Rebecca, Not Becky" perfectly encapsulates middle age and its awakening. Set in the wealthy enclave of Rolling Hills in Northern Virginia, the novel follows the lives of two 40-something stay-at-home mothers, with narration alternating deftly between the women.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Wadzanai Mhute
CommentSaveIf we are to believe Carl Jung’s declaration that life begins at 40 (“up until then, you are just doing research”), then Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene’s “Rebecca, Not Becky” perfectly encapsulates middle age and its awakening. Set in the wealthy enclave of Rolling Hills in Northern Virginia, the novel follows the lives of two 40-something stay-at-home mothers, with narration alternating deftly between the women.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
oprahdaily.com | Wadzanai Mhute
It’s been three years since Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson, was published, and in the intervening years, political, cultural, and racial divisions have intensified. According to a report by PEN America, from 2021 to 2022, more than 1,600 books were banned in school districts across the nation. The impact on children, the educational system, and culture will reverberate for years to come.
