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In this latest of the best-selling FBI Thriller series, agents Savich and Sherlock are solving their most twisted case yet, involving a missing CIA analyst and a kidnapper with powerful connections. For nearly a decade, Taddeo followed three American

Entertainment Weekly

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PAGES 348 | GENRE Fiction REVI EW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats LET US NOW PRAISE DIFFICULT books: the ones whose refusal to play by the conventional rules of form and storytelling confound and dazzle us, and maybe even aim to drive us a little bit

India Today

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At the centre of Poomani's novel, Heat, is Chidambaram, a boy who, in an act of daring and planning beyond his years, strikes down his elder brother's killer, Vadakkuraan. A powerful land-grabber, Vadakkuraan is always surrounded by his own armed men

TIME

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CERTAIN BOOKS LEAVE READERS FEELING THEY KNOW EVERY MINUTE detail of a character’s inner life, as if they were lifelong companions and daily confidants. Paul Auster’s massive new novel, 4 3 2 1, is such a book. The concept behind the 866-page tome b

Cricket Magazine

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A house painter named Mr. Popper dreams of being an Antarctic explorer. When he gets a penguin, his dream comes true. Soon one penguin turns into two, and soon a dozen penguins are in the household. It’s too expensive to take care of ten babies, so M

The Millions

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After six months of smashing success on our list, The Practicing Stoic surely becomes the first philosopher's resource to grace our Hall of Fame. The post The Millions Top Ten: November 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Valeria Luiselli PAGES 375 GENRE Fiction HOWEVER WE DECIDE WHAT defines a Great American Novel in 2019, it must feel a lot like what’s inside Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive. Not only because the narrative unfolds across a literal r

Cobblestone

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American writers produced a number of books in the 1920s. Here’s brief list of some of those titles, authors, and the year in which they were published. Not all of these works of fiction or poetry were bestsellers at the time they were published, but

WHO

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The London-based, Australian writer, 61, found success after co-authoring Puberty Blues in 1979, and with later novels like Mad Cows and Nip ’n’ Tuck. Her most recent, HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy, is out now. Lette tells WHO about the book that

The Millions

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This month marks the entrée of two newcomers. The post The Millions Top Ten: September 2017 appeared first on The Millions.

Woman & Home

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In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, dramatic events mark the relationship between governess Jane and gruff Edward Rochester. They do marry, but only after facing a series of challenges that include a hidden wife locked in an attic, a devastating fire i

Woman's Weekly

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Growing up, sisters Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina were never close, but, respecting their mother’s dying wishes, they travel to India together to carry out the final rites. In a life-affirming read that’s emotional and humorous, we see tensions play out

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Jesse Ball PAGES 253 GENRE Novel FEW WRITERS CAN RESIST THE road trip—the chance encounters of strangers who’d never otherwise collide; the claustrophobic intimacy that’s forced among families and friends; the revelation that meets majestic lan

You South Africa

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EMMANUEL CASTIS sure knows how to sweep a woman off her feet. The Trackers actor proposed to his long-term partner SHARLENE ECONOMOU, at the luxury Komati George Lodge in Mpumalanga in front of her family and friends last month. The couple have been

Woman & Home

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I first read this when I was nine and it terrified me. We’d just moved into a Victorian house, where my bedroom was in the attic. I was convinced Bertha Mason lived in the box room and would set fire to me each night. The ‘mad woman in the attic’ is

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 16 announcement of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award winners, NBCC board members review the 30 finalists. Today, NBCC board member Jane Ciabattari offers an appreciation of fiction f

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Born in Wellington, she now lives in Melbourne, working as a newspaper journalist. This is her first novel. This novel was inspired by… “My career as a journalist and by my extended family. My great, big, fat, political, union, social-justice family

Country Life

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As devotees know, William Boyd is the master of dysfunctional heroes and wearing research lightly. Here, it's Brighton 1968 and the making of a typically 1960s film. Three characters lead double lives: a novelist whose work about Virginia Woolf is st

Literary Hub

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Philip Kerr’s 12th Bernie Gunther novel, Prussian Blue, is available now. What was the first book you fell in love with? First book I fell in love with was probably Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Name a classic you feel guilty about nev

Literary Hub

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Book publishing can be a tricky—and fickle—thing. Some of the classics we know and love today were instant bestsellers when they were originally published—and some were huge flops. While the numbers a book puts up during its first year in the world a

Literary Hub

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Alexander McCall Smith, best known for the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, sees his latest book, My Italian Bulldozer, hit American shelves today. What was the first book you fell in love with? When I was a very young boy I had a book called G

New Zealand Listener

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Bernard Beckett began writing The Tunnel of Dreams a few years back as bedtime reading for his twin boys, completing a section each day. The novel opens with twins Arlo and Stefan deciding to investigate an abandoned house late at night. They spot a

Literary Hub

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Eileen Myles’ Afterglow is available now from Grove Atlantic. What was the first book you fell in love with? Little Women: because there was both a female writer, Jo, in it and there was a rich boy, Laurie, I longed to be. Name a classic you feel gui

Texas Monthly

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(RIVERHEAD BOOKS, OCTOBER 27) Narrated in alternating sections by Mike and Benson, a mixed-race couple living in Houston’s Third Ward, Washington’s first novel explores love, forgiveness, estranged parents, and the power of meals to connect people.

Literary Hub

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As I write this, more than 250 million people have been ordered to stay at home in attempt to slow the coronavirus pandemic. For many of those those lucky enough to be simply quarantined and not sick (or caring for anyone who is), the days have been

Writing Magazine

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‘I hadn’t intended to write The Death of Mungo Blackwell for at least three more years. My agent had been actively shopping my indie-published series for middle grade readers with no success. The market just wasn’t acquiring middle grade. My agent re

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the best-selling individual novel of all time, with sales of 120m. Second with 85m sales is: a. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown b. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger c. The Lion, the Witch and the War

Literary Hub

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Scott Turow’s latest book, Testimony, is available now from Grand Central.  What was the first book you fell in love with? The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, which I read during one of my many malingering periods of absence from grade school at the

Writing Magazine

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‘When I read the submission draft of How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, I was drawn by the immediacy of Lala’s story, the awful brutality that she, her mother and grandmother all endure in different ways, and their stoicism and honesty and ca

Literary Hub

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One of my favorite things about skulking around old bookstores is the possibility of chancing upon a first edition of a beloved author’s early work and looking at it in its original context—not repackaged nor redesigned, not yet Made into a Major Mot