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AMÉRICA DEL NORTEAs romans à clef go, this doesn’t get much more clef-y. A young Mexican journalist (like Medina Mora), Sebastián Arteaga y Salazar, gets a...
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THE PERFECT PLACELucas is ecstatic when he gets a perfect score on his report on robots, but his thrill is short lived: His classmates stare when they see Lucas...
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SKIN & BONESNo matter how Lena Baker might feel about her big body, others see her size as concerning, inconvenient, or distasteful. She has to go to...
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TILTED SKYEleven-year-old Bai Jian yearns for a simple, quiet home life like his classmates have. His mother left when he was an infant, and ever since...
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JERRY, LET ME SEE THE MOONJerry and his dad have just moved to the gated community of Fort Phylum, Ohio, after years spent traveling to far-flung locations around the...
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UNCHARTEDBusenbark’s husband, Rick, had a fatal heart attack in December 2011, which upended her life. Clinging to plans they’d made together before his...
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THE LOCKMASTERAfter the outbreak of water wars across all the world’s continents, access to freshwater streams and precious inland reservoirs becomes top...
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ATTACHMENTSIn 12 loosely connected essays that collectively shape a kind of memoir, Mann, a professor of creative writing and author of Captive Audience ,...
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ONE ALLEY SUMMERIt’s the summer before Phoebe, 11, enters Southside Middle. Everyone says they’ll “eat her alive” when she gets there. On Phee’s street there’s...
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BEHIND MY DOORSIn 859, Fatima Al-Fihri, the daughter of a rich merchant, decided to build a mosque and school. “I began as a small corner for books, where...
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CONSOLIDATED WISDOMThis book of quotations includes chapters on topics such as “War & Peace,” “Science & Technology,” and “Education.” Each chapter...
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THE STONES OF BURREN BAYNorie Lynch has a passion for art and feels a close bond with Johanna, her maternal grandmother. After Gram’s death, Norie’s controlling father...
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SO WHO IS GOD, ANYWAY?“The question of whether God exists” is as old as humanity itself, and has been the driving query asked by philosophers for more than two...
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HOW TO GET YOUR RESISTING LOVED ONE INTO TREATMENTIn his nonfiction debut, the author, a psychologist and educator, discusses the vital importance of what he calls an “impact person” in...
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THE RACE AHEADStewart opens with a traumatic childhood story of witnessing his father fall from a balcony in an alcohol-fueled stupor. Upon later reflection,...
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MURDER AT THE LAKEThis latest entry in the author’s Madison Knight series characteristically begins with a crime—in this case, it’s the horrific rape and murder...
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SAYING NO TO HATEFinkelstein (1941-2024), a two-time winner of the National Jewish Book Awards, begins with the New Testament: “Embedded in its messages of love...
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THE DARKEST WATERThe head found by a jogger on Drigg Beach turns out to be attached to painter Leo James, who’s been buried up to his neck and left to drown in...
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LIFE UNDER PRESSUREGrounding their study within the confines of pseudonymous Poplar Grove, a wealthy, predominantly white suburban American community, sociologists...
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DUCK GOES MEOW“Joy abounds” when Cow lets out a raucous moo, then encourages the other animals to sing. They comply with equal enthusiasm—the animals’...
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ONE OF FOURThis story centers on the mysterious diary of a soldier (with the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1917 and 1918) whose vivid account...
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WHISPERS OF APPLE BLOSSOMSIn the year 2000, Edna Mann is an 81-year-old woman who’s been living alone after the death of her husband, Henry Mann, the previous year. Her...
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FAIR SHAKELegal scholars Cahn, Carbone, and Levit argue persuasively that the persistent wage gap between men and women is a result of a “winner take all”...
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SUNDAY MONEYClaire Joyce loves basketball. John, one of her brothers, is a high school basketball star, though the kind of ball John and the other boys play...
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THE LETTERS WE KEEPThe story opens with “Dear Jaan,” the first line of a letter from 1972 that’s a beckoning to romance—a romance that rumor says ended in flames...
