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Tag: Book Review

Featured Story Literature

Memphis Historical Fiction with a Historian’s Stamp of Approval

Caroline Carrico July 1, 2022 1 Comment Book Review

The most useful interpretations of the past make history relevant and accessible to wide audiences. When authors use well-researched facts about Memphis’s complex history as…

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Literature

New Novel Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Sara Beth West April 18, 2022 No Comments Book ReviewChapter16Dolen Perkins-Valdez

The Right to Decide Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez considers a terrible injustice fueled by prejudice and good intentions By Sara Beth West, originally published April 13,…

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Cover of Memphis by Tara Stringfellow
Featured Story Literature

Memphis by Tara Stringfellow: A Tender, Honest Narrative

Sara Beth West March 29, 2022 No Comments Book ReviewChapter16Local Authors

By Sara Beth West for Chapter16.org, originally published March 28, 2029 There are readers who claim that every great novel must have a map in the front.…

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Literature

The Two Souths: An Interview with Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker

Aram Goudsouzian March 28, 2022 No Comments Book ReviewChapter16

Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker explain how Southern politics shaped the modern United States By Aram Goudsouzian for Chapter16.org, originally published March 28, 2022 “The South and…

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Literature

Double the Thrills: Mark Greaney’s New Gray Man Prequel

G. Robert Frazier February 18, 2022 No Comments Book ReviewChapter16Mark Greaney

Double the Thrills Greaney serves up twice the action in a Gray Man prequel, Sierra Six By G. Robert Frazier, originally published February 17, 2022, on Chapter…

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Literature

Speaking Ida’s Truth for a New Generation: Interview with Michelle Duster

Julie Danielson February 14, 2022 No Comments Book ReviewChapter16Ida B. WellsJulie DanielsonMichelle Duster

Michelle Duster writes a children’s book about her great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells By Julie Danielson, originally published on Chapter 16 on February10, 2022 The work of…

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Literature

Foot Soldier for Justice: Interview with Kathlyn J. Kirkwood

Julie Danielson February 7, 2022 No Comments Book ReviewChapter16Children's BooksKathlyn J. KirkwoodMLK Day

Kathlyn J. Kirkwood discusses her memoir for young readers on the making of MLK Day By Julie Danielson for Chapter16.org, originally published January 25, 2022 “I was…

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Trouble the Water
Literature

Called to the Water: A global fleet of stories about the deep

Chapter16 Community January 19, 2022 No Comments Book ReviewChapter16Emily ChoateSheree Renee ThomasTroy L. Wiggins

By Emily Choate for Chapter16.org originally published January 18, 2022 Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue — a new anthology of speculative fiction co-edited by lauded…

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Literature

The Keys to a Better Life

Chapter16 Community April 9, 2021 No Comments Book ReviewBooker T WashingtonChapter16Chris MoodyJim CrowPaul PerdueRosenwald Schools

Photographer Andrew Feiler documents the Rosenwald Schools of the Jim Crow South By Chris Moody, for Chapter16.org While researching his book, A Better Life for Their…

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History Literature

Turning Back Evil

Chapter16 Community April 9, 2021 No Comments Book ReviewChapter16Michael Ray TaylorSidney Thompson

Hell on the Border continues the true story of a larger-than-life lawman By Michael Ray Taylor, for Chapter16.org In Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves, Sidney Thompson…

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