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If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. See this month's picks for the buzziest novels, memoirs and more Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she ...

Let’s kick things off with one of my favorite books for women, Maame. The word maame has many meanings in Twi, a language spoken in Ghana, but in author Jessica George’s case, it means “woman.” ...

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