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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...
Louisa May Alcott is yet another of those hardy and hearty New England writers of the 19th century who never married or had children. When Louisa’s sister May passed away at an early age, however, Louisa took in her niece Lulu (named after her...
One day in 1897 a man working as a coroner’s assistant in New York City was approached by his eight-year-old daughter, Virginia, and found himself coming face-to-face with one of the most difficult questions the father of such a young child might...
“’Twas the Night Before Christmas” is the popularly known title of a poem actually published in 1823 as “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” before transforming into its longtime official title “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” That publication was...
Apples Never Fall is the 2021 follow-up to Liane Moriarty’s very successful 2018 novel Nine Perfect Strangers. Like that bestseller, it has four-hundred-plus pages of domestic Sturm und Drang focusing on interrelationships among family members...
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice is a memoir by American author and activist Terry Tempest Williams. Published in 2012 by Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the book explores the strange journals her mother left...
The Sound of My Voice is a novel by Scottish poet, lyricist, and award-winning novelist Ron Butlin. It was Published in 1987 by Canongate Publishing Limited.
The novel is set in Glasgow, Scotland and follows Morris Magellan’s life in the suburbs....
When Charley Met Emma is a fictional children's book that focuses of the story between Charley, a young boy, and Emma, a young girl who is in a wheelchair. When Charley first sees Emma at the playground, he is a little bit scared because he has...
Hell of a Book, a novel written by Jason Mott, tells a story about an author who is on his way to tour the US promoting his work. The novel unfolds in various directions: contemplation of oneself, the narrator’s self-reflection and sense of unease...
Revolution in Our Time is a non-fiction work originally published on November 8, 2021 by Kekla Magoon. The piece gives an account of the Black Panther Party, a group of African American human rights fighters and revolutionaries. The book details...
