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- Books Published August 2024
August 2024
Here are all of the books we've reviewed
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published August 2024.
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A lighthouse and its storied secrets feature in Amanda Cox’s engrossing novel "Between the Sound and Sea", in which a woman helms a restoration project and meets a widower who longs for atonement. Joey was an event planner in Copper... Read More
Probing, fierce, and honest, the essays of "Loving Corrections" advocate for more compassionate, inclusive understandings of family, community, and oneself. The twenty-five essays in this book tackle a wide range of topics, including... Read More
Variously hilarious and despairing, Komail Aijazuddin’s memoir covers his struggles for self-acceptance. As a child, Aijazuddin knew that he was different from other children and that he would suffer because of it. “Gay boys who are... Read More
"Mississippi Swindle" is Shad White’s gripping account of the largest public fraud in Mississippi’s history—the misuse of nearly $100 million in federal welfare funds. Appointed Mississippi’s state auditor in 2018, White led the... Read More
Michelle M. Nickerson’s "Spiritual Criminals" is a gripping account of the Camden 28, Catholic war protesters who burglarized a federal building and were acquitted in a well-publicized trial in the early 1970s. While eight members of... Read More
Adèle Rosenfeld’s "Jellyfish Have No Ears" is a poignant novel in which lost hearing reshapes a woman’s understanding of the world. Louise has always been somewhat “uprooted from language” because of her imperfect hearing. Now... Read More