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To Paradise is a sci-fi novel by American author Hanya Yanagihara. Published in 2022 by Doubleday, the novel explores a parallel New York City in three different centuries. In this alternate world, same-sex marriage has been legal since the...
Out of My Heart is a middle-grade novel written by New York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper. It was published on November 9, 2021, by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. It is the sequel to Draper’s 2010 novel Out of My Mind continuing the story...
Pax, Journey Home is a coming-of-age novel by American author Sara Pennypacker. Published in 2021 by Balzer and Bray, the novel is the second book in the Pax series. It explores how the power of love and healing manifests in different settings...
Pax is a coming-of-age novel by American author Sara Pennypacker. It was published in 2016 by Balzer and Bray as the first book in the Pax series. Initially planned as a one-off novel, the sequel titled Pax, Journey Home was published in 2021.
Set...
Ain't Burned All the Bright is a book by American author Jason Reynolds. It was published in 2022 by Atheneum and Caitlyin Dlouhy Books. The three-part poem and visual illustrations explore the struggles of an African-American family coming to...
Destined to become the epicenter of misguided debate, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water is a picture book with verse designed to take the concepts and ideas of the original 1619 Project and make them accessible to readers in grades 2 through 5....
Don Paterson: Selected Poems is a collection of poems by Scottish poet Don Paterson. Published in 2012 by Faber & Faber, the collection is made up of twenty years worth of poems already published by the poet.
Paterson's most famous and...
“Incantations and Other Stories” by Anjana Appachana, an American writer of Indian heritage, is a collection of stories set in India. The stories follow everyday characters, women for the most part, who struggle with their daily lives in a country...
“The Planners” is a poem written by Singaporean-Australian poet Boey Kim Cheng that first appeared in his collection Another Place. Boey has won the National Arts Council's Young Artist Award and his poems have been included in the O-level and...
My Left Foot is a biographical drama film directed by Jim Sheridan in 1989. The film is based on the challenges faced by disabled persons in society that perceives them as defective and unhealthy. The protagonist in the film, Christy Brown, is...
Beyond The Curve is a collection of short fictional stories by revered Japanese writer Kobu Abe. Although it is his first collection of short fiction it is widely considered to be his best. Each of the short stories included in the work tell the...
Whereas is a poem by Layli Long Soldier that responds to the congressional apology to native tribes in the US. The congressional apology was signed in obscurity by then President of the US Barack Obama. Native people have long suffered systematic...
Crooked Hallelujah is a contemporary novel by Native-American author Kelli Jo Ford. It was published in 2020 by Grove Press. The novel explores the lives of Native-American women throughout multiple generations, as they strive to make life better...
The Road Back to Sweatgrass is a coming-of-age novel by Native-American author Linda LeGarde Grover. It was published in 2014 by the University of Minnesota Press. In the 1970s, Margie, Dale, and Theresa live in the Ojibwe reservation which, like...
When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky is a historical fiction novel written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Margaret Verble. It was published on 12th October 2021 by Mariner Books. The narrative blends a bit of magical realism with real history...
Piranesi is a high fantasy novel by British author Susanna Clarke. Published in 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing, the novel is about a magical world known as The House full of secrets, manipulation, and adventure. Piranesi is a man who lives in this...
Blacktop Wasteland is a novel written by S.A. Cosby involving a crime. The main character of the book is Beauregard Montage who struggles to provide for his family. Beauregard is a former criminal and has assured his friends and family that he won...
Winter Counts is a crime thriller novel written by David Heska Wanbli Weiden and was published in 2020 by Ecco—an imprint of HarperCollins. It is Weiden’s debut novel and managed to make it on the year’s top lists including the New York Times...
The Only Good Indians is a fantasy horror novel by horror fiction writer Stephen Graham Jones. It tells the story of a group of Native Americans who are stalked by a female elk whom the men had killed in an illicit hunt when they were boys. The...
The Year They Burned The Books is a novel for young adults by Nancy Garden, a magazine editor-turned young adult novelist who seems to have much in common with Jamie, her protagonist.
The novel tells the story of Jamie, the editor of the high...
Reluctantly Alice is a young-adult novel by American author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. It is the third book in the Alice series, consisting of twenty-five books. Published in 1991 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, the novel continues exploring...
The Underground Girls of Kabul is a book by Jenny Nordberg that explores the lives of young girls in Afghanistan that are compelled by culture and traditions to dress like boys. Nordberg is a Swedish investigative journalist who unravels the...
We Were Eight Years in Power is a collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates writes about white supremacy and black identity in eight years during the presidency of Barack Obama. The author claims that his career was elevated after Obama...
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is a book detailing how the caste system in the USA controls people throughout history. The author argues that America suffers from inequality and injustices since enslavement started in...
