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Kate Daniels/ Ilona Andrews Parable Series/Octavia Butler Brown Sisters/Talia Hibbert Benjamin January/Barbara Hambly Sookie Stackhouse/Charlaine Harris Jack Reacher/Lee Child (and Andrew Child) Elouise Norton/Rachel Howzell Hall Mercy Thompson/Patricia Briggs Gabriel Allon/Daniel Silva Broken Earth Trilogy/ N K Jemisin Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency/Alexander McCall Smith Easy Rollins/Walter Mosley Chief Inspector Gamache/Louise Penny Anita Blake/ Laurell…

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[Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore have long been favorites of mine since childhood. I have the entire Pooh’s Library collection. On Jan.1, 2022, A.A. Milne’s original Winnie-the Pooh stories entered the public domain. Although Disney’s illustrated version of Pooh is protected by copyright, the company no longer has an exclusive right to Milne’s work. – Kintsugi]…

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Best Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of 2021 from the NY Times The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers No One Is Talking About This By Patricia Lockwood When We Cease to Understand the World By Benjamín Labatut. Translated by Adrian Nathan West How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History…

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FictionBewilderment by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (One World)Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Dutton)One Two Three by Laurie Frankel (Holt)Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead)Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine)Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad (Knopf)The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press) NonfictionBlack Food: Stories,…

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By Candace McDuffie, Correspondent, Christian Scientist Monitor Black feminist thought has become crucial to how we navigate the social, economic, and political currents in America. To understand the consequences of pervasive racist narratives that seep into mainstream media – as well as into public policy and legislation – we must first examine how these narratives affect one…

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“The Black Count,” by Tom Reiss: The true story of General Alex Dumas, the son of a Black slave who inspired “The Count of Monte Cristo” and other swashbuckling tales written by his son, Alexander Dumas. “Slave Nation,” by Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth G. Blumrosen: On the role of slavery in the drafting of the United States Constitution,…

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