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THE WAYS OF WATERJosie Belle Gore isn’t the oldest but she’s clearly the boldest child in her family. At the age of 6, for example, she uses a rope to retrieve...
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COMEDY BOOK“This is a love story,” writes Vulture senior editor Fox, invoking the famous quote from Season 2 of Fleabag . The author is a proud “member...
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FANCY MEETING YOU HEREElise Ngo has been selected to be a bridesmaid and the florist for three of her close friends' weddings. The business opportunities presented...
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VENGEANCE OF THE PIRATE QUEENIn this stand-alone companion to the Daughter of the Pirate King duology, Queen Alosa asks 18-year-old dark-brown-skinned Sorinda to lead search...
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MATERIAL WORLDSky News economics editor Conway, an inhabitant of the “ethereal world” in which ideas and services are bought and sold, opens his account with...
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A NEARBY COUNTRY CALLED LOVE“Tehran is like a bad marriage one gets trapped in.” Those words, spoken to Issa, the protagonist of Abdoh’s novel, encapsulate the challenges...
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LATE ROMANCEYezzi, a poet, playwright, and editor of the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets , makes his debut as a biographer with a sensitive,...
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TONIGHT, I BURNThorn witch Penelope Albright’s upcoming 21st birthday means she’ll finally be of age to cross into Death and fulfill the duties of her...
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THE MANOR HOUSE GOVERNESSBron, who uses he / him pronouns and experiments with his gender representation by dressing in romantic vintage fashions, is fixated on...
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ERAGONWhen unassuming farm boy Eragon finds a strange blue stone while out hunting, the last thing he expects is for a dragon to hatch from it. Eragon...
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NIGHTBANESupplying a punchy title but playing no significant role in the actual story, the eponymous flower makes a good emblem for a rambling follow-up...
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BREAKTHROUGHBorn in Hungary in 1955, Kati Karikó has never been a stranger to stacked odds. From her childhood as the daughter of a political dissenter, her...
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SIR CALLIE AND THE DRAGON'S ROOSTAfter Callie defeated Chancellor Peran, they thought Helston would become a more welcoming kingdom. Under the queen’s new decrees, anyone can...
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WE ARE THE CRISISThe Cult of the Zsouvox is fomenting a war between humans and monsters for obscure, apocalyptic reasons. On the human side, the Black Hand...
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THE LIFE AND LIES OF CHARLES DICKENSBritish literary scholar Kelly, the author of Jane Austen, the Secret Radical , offers a brisk overview of the life of Charles Dickens...
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CHEVENGURIt’s astounding that Stalin, after reading Platonov and scrawling “Bastard” on one page, allowed him to escape the Gulag. Platonov’s town of...
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FERREN AND THE ANGELFifteen-year-old Ferren has only known life as one of the People, a “primitive” population on a post-apocalyptic Earth, continually threatened...
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LOAVES OF TORAH“Challah is no ordinary bread,” writes the author, a rabbi, “it is rich with religious and spiritual resonance, as well as powerful sensory...
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HOW LIFE WORKSLife is not all about tidy genetic blueprints; it is influenced by "messy and capricious" elements so many levels that genes are “just...
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THE INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEW PLAYBOOK“When I was trying to land a job out of college, I had zero connections. ZERO. I had to work my butt off to make them,” writes the author. He...
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SHE MAY BE LYING DOWN BUT SHE MAY BE VERY HAPPYThe daughter of an Episcopalian mother and Jewish father, Gelb, who has appeared on Broadway in Wicked and Titanic , among other productions,...
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THE FIANCÉE RODE IN ON A DONKEYWhen “the scrawny old man riding a donkey” appears between two sand dunes, Yudah is disappointed. She’d imagined the rabbi would have “a...
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RISE OF THE READERThe author, founder of the marketing agency BookThinkers, advocates for increasing and maximizing reading time: Replace 15 minutes a day of...
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MY LIFE IN PAPERKephart opens this prose-poem memoir with self-reflexive musings on Dard Hunter, a master printer and papermaker whose 1958 autobiography My...
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SAVING MADONNAIn 1943, Sant’ Angelo, a rural town in northern Italy, is plunged into the perilous drama of World War II—the Nazis imperiously take control of...
