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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

James McBride
2023
Christmas came early for me this year with a new book from James McBride. Discovering McBride'…
Fiction —
The last days of the Dinosaurs

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Riley Black
2022
Riley Black has written a new sort of dinosaur book. It isn't really even about dinosaurs. Ins…
Nature —
The Latecomer

The Latecomer

Jean Hanff Korelitz
2022
The most delightful element of "The Latecomer" is the ironic deadpan humor of the narrati…
Fiction —
Towles

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles
2021
Amor Towles has written a quintessentially American Odyssey, a “coming of age” story, following the…
Fiction —
the Maid

The Maid

Nita Prose
2022
The mystery genre has only 2 basic requirements, an apparent crime, most often murder, and an attem…
Fiction —
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The Paris Apartment

Lucy Foley
2022
I have noticed a resurgence recently in classic "closed circle" mysteries. If you aren&#x…
Fiction —
The Right Call

The Right Call

Sally Jenkins
2023
I am not particularly athletic. I was not chosen last for every team in elementary school, but I ce…
Sports —
The Terraformers

The Terraformers

Annalee Newitz
2023
In her acknowledgements at the end of "The Terraformers" author Annalee Newitz says, &quo…
Science Fiction —
Applebaum

The Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Anne Applebaum
2020
You may know Anne Applebaum as a political commentator on television or as a Pulitzer Prize winning…
Political Science —
Wayfarers series

The Wayfarers series

Becky Chamber
2015-2021
"The Long Way to a Small and Angry Planet" was Becky Chambers' debut science fiction…
Science Fiction —
The Wife of Willesden

The Wife of Willesden

Zadie Smith
2023
I know very little about the mathematical study of probability but like most people I sometimes exp…
Theatre —
The Woman in the Library

The Woman in the Library

Sulari Gentill
2022
"The Woman in The Library" has some striking similarities to "And Then There Were No…
Mystery —
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