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THE NEOREALIST IN WINTERIn the collection's eponymous opener, an aspiring director must choose between his next film or his family. "Do I Amuse You?" profiles an...
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DEEP BLUE COVERIn this fifth installment of Barrows’ thriller series, agent David Ward of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is on a...
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DATING SILKY MAXWELLAll the tales in this set feature female central characters, from a woman who falls in love with a controlling man in “Bird Girl” to a tender of...
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THE ODYSSEY OF FLETCHERTwenty-two-year-old Fletcher Sinclair was never a prime specimen of masculinity—he was an introverted community college student with thick...
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ALL THE PARTS OF THE SOULIn 1545, Geneva city magistrate Henry Aubert—a deeply religious man who lost his entire family to the plague—is summoned by John Calvin and...
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FATHER OF THE FUTUREDash’s protagonist, Cassique, is a “Fixer” in 2853. His job is to go back in time to repair history by extracting important figures and...
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DECODEPENDENCEPiecing together her life in cartoons and words, freelance cartoonist and regular New Yorker contributor Ash describes her mental health...
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THE HIDDEN LANGUAGE OF CATSBrown, author of The Cat: A Natural and Cultural History , began studying cat behavior in the late 1980s while gaining her doctorate and...
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CONFLICTAs the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to rage, with ongoing reporting drawn to the increasingly sophisticated warfare maneuvers executed...
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THINK YOU'LL BE HAPPY“Neither my mother nor I knew that her last text to me would be the words ‘Think you’ll be happy,’ ” Avant writes, "but it is fitting that she...
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THE LITTLE BOOKS OF THE LITTLE BRONTËSThe text begins “Many years before you were born,” urging readers to “look through the window” at the rapt, rosy faces of Charlotte and Anne,...
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LOVE IS IN THE BEARBear groggily wakes from a winter slumber, lumbering outside to greet the world. But if he had slept one more second, he would have missed it:...
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THE DICTIONARY PEOPLEIn her last days living in Oxford, before taking a teaching position at Stanford, linguist and lexicographer Ogilvie, who had worked as an...
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BEHIND THE SEAMSFeaturing fringe, vibrant color, and rhinestones, Parton’s fashion sense has always contributed to her immense popularity. In this effervescent,...
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UNFORGIVING“They’ve become the manifestation of every dream I’ve allowed myself to dream,” writes Jacobellis, with the assistance of veteran ghostwriter...
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THE WISHING MACHINEThe young narrator isn’t so sure about the impending move, which will mean leaving the friends Sam and Mom see at the laundromat every Sunday....
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NONE OF THE ABOVEAlabanza, a well-known trans author and performer based in the U.K., structures this memoir around seven impactful phrases spoken to them over...
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WADDLE I DO WITHOUT YOU?The tale unfolds in alternating chapters, each focusing on one of the three protagonists. Twelve-year-old homeschooled Addie lives by the beach...
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MARR'S GUITARSMarr founded the seminal 1980s British band the Smiths and later went on to play with the Pretenders, Electronica, and Modest Mouse, among many...
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HE/SHE/THEYIn this remarkable book, Bailar, the first trans athlete to play a sport on an NCAA Division 1 men’s team and now a prominent advocate for trans...
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ALL THAT CONSUMES USShe wasn’t able to land a spot in the prestigious Magni Viri program at Corbin College, something that comes with a full-ride scholarship, not...
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IN THE WICK OF TIMEFraternal twins Tabby and Sage Winslow are very close even though they can be very different. Sage is a bit of a hothead with a tendency to blow...
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I LOVE RUSSIAIn a vernacular style, Kostyuchenko, whose coverage of Russian’s invasion of Ukraine contributed to the 2022 shuttering of the independent...
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OPULENCE AND ASHESGenevieve grew up in a well-to-do society family with a feminist mother interested in societal problems. Daniel started life in a poor Irish...
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ELLE CAMPBELL WINS THEIR WEEKENDSeventh grader Elle is a huge fan of Phantom Thief , a fictional Doctor Who –esque show, but above all, they love its nonbinary protagonist,...
