By Nathan Coker
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Apr 29th, 2021
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by Kate Morton REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “There are few certainties in this world, but I will tell you something I know: the truth depends on who it is that’s telling the story.” I am so in love with this book. Kate Morton creates a timeless, century-shifting examination of people connected via the...
By Nathan Coker
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Mar 29th, 2021
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by Brit Bennett REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Maybe it was a mistake to return to Mallard. Maybe they should have gone somewhere new, started over fresh. But it was too late now for regrets. She could already hear the river. She started toward it, her daughter hanging heavy around her neck. The river ...
By Nathan Coker
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Mar 29th, 2021
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by Lou Berney REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “The past had power. The past was a riptide. That’s why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn’t go in the water.” Two mysteries rocked Oklahoma City in the late 80s. A movie theater robbery turned mass murder left one young man wondering why he […...
By Nathan Coker
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Mar 3rd, 2021
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by Sarah Fragoso and Brooke Kalanick, ND, MS REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “We can no longer ignore that today’s women are not happy and thriving; they are barely surviving. Studies like this show us that feeling spread too thin and the symptoms that arise from all this stress are most definitely not i...
By Nathan Coker
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Mar 3rd, 2021
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by Paula McClain REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “We wore the chalk on us everywhere-up to the knees, in the creases of our fingers, and in my mouth. I couldn’t keep it out and stopped trying, and that was something I loved about Africa. The way it got at you from the outside in and never […]...
By Nathan Coker
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Jan 28th, 2021
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by Kelly Rimmer REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Life has a way of shattering our expectations, of leaving our hopes in pieces without explanation. But when there’s love in a family, the fragments left behind from our shattered dreams can always be pulled together again, even if the end result is a mosai...
By Nathan Coker
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Jan 28th, 2021
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by Barbara Neely REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “This is how we’ve survived in this country all this time, by knowing when to act like we believe what we’ve been told and when to act like we know what we know. Blanche White is a black domestic worker with a sharp tongue, keen intuition, and an […...
By Nathan Coker
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Nov 10th, 2020
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by Ibram X. Kendi REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Racist ideas fooled me nearly my whole life. I refused to allow them to continue making a fool out of me, a chump out of me, a slave out of me. I realized there is nothing wrong with any of the racial groups and everything wrong with […]...
By Nathan Coker
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Nov 10th, 2020
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by Pamela Paul & Maria Russo REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Literacy experts talk about the need for a child to be exposed to books that are both mirrors and windows – some should be mirrors in which a child can see herself reflected, and others should be windows into the experiences of peopl...
By Nathan Coker
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Oct 5th, 2020
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by Amanda Eyre Ward Nightstands and Coffeetables | Bayou Pages REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She wanted him to know she’d been a stunning beauty once – that inside, she was still that graceful young boheme. But strangers seeing you as someone you couldn’t bear to be was simply one of the indigni...
