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Wild Rain: Women Who Dare

by Beverly Jenkins

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Wild Rain: Women Who Dare by Beverly Jenkins appears in NPR’s 2021 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, let’s talk about sex, historical fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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