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A place to celebrate good books and ponder the journeys they spark, both in the real world and in our heads.
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Barbara Shoup
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Sisters of Belfast
I’ve long been fascinated by nuns. As a kid, I walked past Our Lady of Perpetual Help every day on my way to school and often saw the nuns who lived in…
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Barbara Shoup
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A Mystery: What The Dead Can Say
And The Little Free Libraries
Published on Dreaming in Japanese • 
The Limits
by Nell Freudenberger
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Barbara Shoup
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Fever
The story of Typhoid Mary
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Barbara Shoup
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Martyr!
“He is the most excited person I have ever met,” Kaveh Akbar’s wife said about him in a NYT feature. You see this in Martyr!, for sure. The book looks…
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Barbara Shoup
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Me and My Baby View the Eclipse
1. Lee Smith’s “Me and My Baby Watch the Eclipse” is a short story, not a novel. But how could I resist a post with that title with everyone agog about…
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Barbara Shoup
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James
by Percival Everett
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Barbara Shoup
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Book Pilgrim
Book Pilgrim
A place to celebrate good books and ponder the journeys they spark, both in the real world and in our heads.
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