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Up in the Air, Under the Earth and Seas
Four of the novels we highlight this week take a fascinating look at disasters and big nature: two involve earthquakes—one a debut, the other...
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Getting By
This week’s novels feature characters and families with unforgettable voices as they struggle in the world: a writer known for her inventive...
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Dream a Little Dream
Four extraordinary Nigerian women embark on a journey of self-discovery; an Iranian family is transformed by their new life in America; a Dickens...
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Women in Mind
This week we have a slate of novels that revel in the feminine mystique. On offer is a dishy look at women in Hollywood perfect for the forthcoming...
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Sense of Place
As Rebecca Solnit has said, “Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together
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Transience
Past and present intertwine in several of these fine books, two of which are story collections. We have a sensitive memoir of grief by one of...
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Don’t Look Away
These books share a common thread in the way they pull you into their narratives, making it hard to turn away. A Victorian psychopath; a Latin...
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Love Is in the Air
Here we have three unconventional books about love and sex in the run-up to Valentine’s Day; the latest from a bestselling Caribbean American...
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Out of the Darkness
This week we have a nonfiction book about the second wave of the Civil Rights Movement in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Nobel Laureate...
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The Long and Short of It
January usually brings the making (or breaking) of resolutions, and reading more is often on the list. Here are five new titles to entice—from...
