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SCHOENBERGIn the prologue, Sachs, a music writer, Toscanini biographer, and educator at the Curtis Institute of Music, states explicitly that he aims to...
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SHOULDERIn the 1950s and ’60s, the Hessions—the author, known as Moya or Mary; “Me-Mum”; and “Me-Dad”—were impoverished Irish Catholics living in a...
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BONESMITHIn the Dominions, smithing makes and breaks nations. Long extinct ghostsmiths raised the dead, recently eradicated ironsmiths mined too deeply...
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TEE TIME ON THE MOONThe 1971 Apollo 14 mission, the third to land on the moon, had tasks and experiments aplenty lined up, but, as they say, all work and no...
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SOMEONE JUST LIKE YOUThe Blum and Stark families have been thickly intertwined for years, since they moved in across the street from each other in Hoboken, New...
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THE LITTLE VILLAGE OF BOOK LOVERSMarie-Jeanne has possessed a special gift since her earliest days: She is able to detect a certain light that shines from people who have been...
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NARCASAs a feminist journalist, Bonello, Mexico City–based senior editor for Latin America at VICE World News, is acutely aware of gender stereotypes...
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THE SPACE BETWEENA young man named Jace Morgan races through New York’s Central Park to try to stop a wedding, sharing an intense look with the bride when he...
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EMERGENT PROPERTIESScorn wakes up with 10 days missing from zir memory banks. Ze soon figures out that ze got run over by a tram on the Moon—and zir last backup is...
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THE SWEETEST REVENGEAmy Duffy has suffered a humiliation. Not your run-of-the-mill embarrassment but a full-blown catastrophe. After Chris Ellis, her...
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A SHIMMER OF REDNo sooner has Tanya Risko introduced her two latest hires to the veteran staff at Risko Realty—clairvoyant sometime caterer Odessa Jones, father...
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HOW TO LOVE YOUR DAUGHTERIsraeli writer Blum’s brief, sometimes stiflingly close-focus new novel opens with Yoella Linden secretly watching her daughter Leah’s family...
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MURDER AT A LONDON FINISHING SCHOOLEdwina Davenport is surprised to receive a letter from Ermentrude DuPont, the head teacher at Miss DuPont’s Finishing School for Young Ladies,...
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THE SHOWDOWNIn this sequel to Sweet & Bitter Rivals (2023), Abby continues to struggle with her new stepfamily, especially when stepsister Emery...
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FIREBIRDWhen sophomore Caroline Kim agrees to peer tutor another student, she doesn’t expect it to be the outgoing, charismatic, and beautiful Korean...
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VAULTING THROUGH TIMEAfter living with unresolved questions that her older, widowed mom is cagey about, a secret DNA test reveals to Elizabeth that her ancestry is...
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ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN'T OLDWhitney Dagner has returned to Catalina Island, off the coast of Southern California, to help her grandparents, who brought her up after both...
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TWO FACES OF THE MOONEvery summer, the author leaves her suburban Long Island home to spend time alone in the isolated wilderness of Bobs Lake, in Ontario, Canada....
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DEFECTORSThe harboring of defectors from the Soviet Union in their “leap to freedom” was a tremendous coup for the West. However, as historian and...
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A KING OF CARTOONSAbraham Keen helms a charity that offers aid to unhoused people, but the mayor and the police of Old York (the former New York in a dystopian...
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ALL WE COULD HAVE BEEN AND MOREA woman—who may be controlled by a zombie ant fungus—invites her ex-boyfriend over for a late-night reconciliation (“Zombie Ant Fungus”). A...
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UNDER THIS FORGETFUL SKYA 16-year-old from one of the advanced, privileged Upper Cities, Rumi Sabzwari, who is of Pakistani descent, has only known life behind the...
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THE JASAD HEIRTen years after Jasad fell, its people live in hiding within the four nations that conspired against their homeland. The Jasadis were the last...
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I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDSChinese American Sabine Zhang is thrilled to get out of Moline, Illinois, and appear on Hotel California , a small reality series that centers...
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LOOKThe premise of this book is that contemporary people have lost the capacity for mindful observation of the world around them. As an...
