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GAYS ON BROADWAYIn his latest book, Mordden, who has written extensively about American and British theater, focuses on the influences of “homosexuals,...
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THE GALACTIC ZOOKEEPER'S GUIDE TO HEISTS AND HUSBANDRYThe author’s debut novels’ title echoes The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , but the prose is far more astringent, taking the form of the...
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THE BUCKNOLL COTTAGE CHRONICLESThe hankering that the author had in 2013 had specifications: The house had to be less than a two-hour drive from Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan,...
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HOP LOLA HOPGray toy bunny Lola hasn’t learned her lesson since her last adventure with her special friend, human girl Ella, in Hop Lola Hop (2022). As...
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TIERRA, TIERRITA / EARTH, LITTLE EARTHMother Earth tells her story and that of the myriad forms of life that call her home. Of all mothers, she is the oldest. “My song is the song /...
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FINDING KATYAThe author’s fascination with other countries began early. She borrowed Spanish, French, and German language books from her elementary school...
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SWIMMING TO JERUSALEMBorn in Paris to Jews from Poland and Morocco and raised in both Israel and Brooklyn, the polyglot Bram Goodman represents the whole of the...
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THE FALL WILL PROBABLY KILL YOU!Teddy Thompson is a wunderkind in the political world, the mentee of a congressman who becomes a senator and then aspires to the White House....
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UNDER THE BLANKET SKYOne summer morning, a bespectacled, light-skinned child encounters “a strange creature” in the backyard. We see what appears to be a gargantuan...
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THE WISHING FLOWERBirdie, a light-skinned girl with curly red hair, is happy by herself, reading books, watching bugs, and blowing on delicate wishing flowers....
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NO PERFECT PLACESThe summer before their senior year of high school, Olly and Alex’s well-known tech CEO father dies from a heart attack while still in prison....
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VENGEANCE IS MINEIn 1857 in Utah, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California came under attack. It was not the only wagon train to suffer siege and murder,...
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THE MALE GAZEDIn this absorbing fusion of memoir and cultural analysis, media critic Betancourt examines his boyhood in Colombia. He was obsessed with Disney...
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WHY CONGRESSCongress has been the subject of jeers since the early days of the republic, but the past 20 years have seen the scoffing turn into outright...
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BACK TO THE BRIGHT BEFOREA debilitating injury prevents 11-year-old Perpetua’s father from working, forcing her waitress mother to take double shifts. The cost of yet...
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JURASSIC JEFFJeff crash-lands his spacecraft on prehistoric Earth and declares himself ruler only to be met with laughter and Pterodactyl poop. He meets Carl...
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LESBIAN LOVE STORY“Mostly grown and living in New York City, I still rarely spotted other lesbians,” writes book publicist Possanza in her debut. “I joined a...
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THE MUSEUM OF ORDINARY PEOPLEJess Baxter has been having a rough year. She’s recently lost her beloved mother and has taken from her house a few bags of reminders: records,...
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THE ALCHEMY OF MOONLIGHTAfter Emile’s aunt threatened to have him institutionalized for his attraction to men, he ran away and found work as a servant in Count...
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EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCEMarried to endurance athlete Tommy Rivers Puzey, Catudal, a freelance writer, omits his full name in her debut memoir, referring to him only as...
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THE TOGETHER TREEAlthough he is assigned the best seat in the room—right next to the class pets—brown-skinned Rumi still feels unwelcome and out of place in his...
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MOTHER OF SHARKSAs the sun sets on the beautiful Playita del Condado, Puerto Rico, Meli promises her mami that she’ll be ready to leave in just five minutes....
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THE WORLD'S BEST CLASS PLANTColor Arlo and his Room 109 classmates bored. Unlike the pets in neighboring classrooms, their plant mascot does nothing. It barely grows. The...
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GIANT-SIZED BUTTERFLIES ON MY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOLDespite Mom’s reassurance that the first day of school will be fine, a child has “giant-sized butterflies.” “How am I to know how it will go on...
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SWEET & BITTER RIVALSSeventh grader Abby arrives for the start of her second year at Massachusetts boarding school Saddlehill Academy eager to reunite with friends...
