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THE SERPENT AND THE ROSEReaders learn about the era’s tense political situation through diary entries written by Marguerite, Princess of France, beginning in 1581. Her...
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GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEThe author, an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University, believes that artificial intelligence technology is poised to usher in a “new...
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REFLECTIONS FROM THE SHADOW OF LOS ANGELESThe author’s parents moved to Southern California as part of the “great migration of the early 1950s,” the beginning of the “golden age” of the...
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BEN ROTHERY'S WEIRD AND WONDERFUL ANIMALSWonder is immediately evoked by the astounding photorealism of the illustrations (comparable to other Rothery books). Readers of all ages will...
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SPILLAGEIt’s 1976, and “unfinished buildings marring the skyline” plague New York City, along with overflowing garbage, boarded-up storefronts, and...
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LOVES AND ENTANGLEMENTSIn this assemblage of more than a dozen tales, Bogaty limns the fraught eccentricities that plague relationships between men and women with a...
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RUNNING MATESEdgartown, North Carolina, is split between its liberal Eastside and conservative Northside. Instilled with progressive values by her moms,...
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THE CIRCLE OF WILLISReaders meet Leotie “Leo” Lightfoot when Ray Shipworth, an EMT, finds her passed out alone in an abandoned “party” warehouse. She was left there...
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NEXT OF KINJacob Mallory may seem like a mild-mannered graphic designer in his early 30s, but when the urge strikes him, he’s not above stabbing someone...
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ALL THE WAY TO SUMMER“They are about love that changes the lives of my characters, one way or another,” Kidman writes in the preface. “Love, long or short, and often...
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WHAT IRANIANS WANTAzizi, the author of The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions , is a writer and historian based in New York City...
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WHERE IS POPPY?The young narrator keenly misses Poppy—Grandpa—at Passover. The little one looks for him as the family gathers for the seder. Some things seem...
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PLAYING WITH WILDFIREEarly on, a woman named Gretel—the closest thing to a central character you’ll find here—explains her situation: “I live on the evacuation...
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THE KAMOGAWA FOOD DETECTIVESIn the back streets of present-day Kyoto, Koishi Kamogawa and her father, Nagare, are running a restaurant that isn’t your ordinary dining spot....
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NOBODY'S ANGELTo the stand-by rules that govern cab driving in the Windy City—don’t go west, don’t go south, don’t go back, don’t go to Cabrini–Green—a new...
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TRUE BELIEVERVeteran journalist Traub, author of What Was Liberalism? and The Freedom Agenda , delivers a memorable, admiring portrait of Hubert Humphrey...
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BRIGHT STARS OF BLACK BRITISH HISTORYThe author notes that from the first century, when the Romans conquered Britain, Black people have fought to create better lives for themselves...
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HABITATSTaking the same layered approach as Pang’s Seasons (2021), illustrated by Clover Robin, this outing transports young wildlife lovers from the...
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TODAY IS FOR YOU!In this U.K. import with pages bursting with colors, groups of kids do all sorts of playful, active stuff—they occasionally rest, too—and cavort...
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TAXI, GO!Rhyming text addresses a perky, smiling taxi as it makes its way through town taking fares, driving through rain and sun, and speeding along...
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BEVERLY HILLS SPYHe was known as Agent Shinkawa, a spy for the Imperial Japanese Navy. His real name was Frederick Rutland (1886-1949), a hero of early British...
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REBEL SKIESIn this Japanese-inspired fantasy, the sky-dwelling Sorabito people and the groundlings (who form the middle strata of society) live under the...
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MY MOTHER'S TONGUESSumi’s mother speaks two languages: Malayalam and English. She speaks Malayalam because she grew up in the Indian state of Kerala, where...
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DROPPED!Six teens are dropped on Adventure Island, the tropical setting of the internet reality show Dropped! , in which contestants try to survive...
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AFIKOMAN, WHERE'D YOU GO?A delightful part of any seder is when the children in attendance scour the house in search of the afikoman, a hidden piece of unleavened bread....
