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August 24, 2024

Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell

August 24, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell

A big new biography of Christopher Isherwood

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August 24, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Christopher Isherwood, Inside Out, Katherine Bucknell, biography, literary biography
August 23, 2024

Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard by Mary Flannery

August 23, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard by Mary Flannery

A new book about Chaucer's humor and its legacy

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August 23, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Mary Flannery, Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard, Chaucer, literature
August 21, 2024

Roy is Not a Dog by Daniel Newell Kaufman

August 21, 2024/ Shelly Swearingen
Roy is Not a Dog by Daniel Newell Kaufman

A little detective investigates someone who’s not what he seems

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August 21, 2024/ Shelly Swearingen/
August 15, 2024

One Giant Leap by Thao Lam

August 15, 2024/ Shelly Swearingen
One Giant Leap by Thao Lam

A wordless children’s book follows the adventures of a little explorer

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August 15, 2024/ Shelly Swearingen/
One Giant Leap, Thao Lam, children's books
August 15, 2024

Hardy Women by Paula Byrne

August 15, 2024/ Aaron Kyereh-Mireku
Hardy Women by Paula Byrne

A look at the women (real and imaginary) in the life of author Thomas Hardy

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August 15, 2024/ Aaron Kyereh-Mireku/
Hardy Women, Paula Byrne, biography, literary biography, Thomas Hardy
August 13, 2024

The House Before Falling into the Sea by Ann Suk Wang

August 13, 2024/ Shelly Swearingen
The House Before Falling into the Sea by Ann Suk Wang

A compassionately rendered, well-paced refugee story sure to pique curiosity about 1950s war-torn Korea.

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August 13, 2024/ Shelly Swearingen/
Ann Suk Wang, Hanna Cha, The House Before Falling into the Sea, children's books
August 13, 2024

Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor

August 13, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor

In Sarah Stewart Taylor’s new novel, a mysterious death involves an entire community in 1965 Vermont

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August 13, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Sarah Stewart Taylor, Agony Hill, mystery, fiction, Vermont
August 09, 2024

All the Rage by Virginia Nicholson

August 09, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
All the Rage by Virginia Nicholson

An episodic new history of women’s fashion in the long modern era

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August 09, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Virginia Nicholson, All the Rage, history, fashion, women's fashion
August 05, 2024

Gaga's Mistake Day by Emma & Susan Straub

August 05, 2024/ Shelly Swearingen
Gaga's Mistake Day by Emma & Susan Straub

A children’s book about a young girl and her unconventional grandmother

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August 05, 2024/ Shelly Swearingen/
Gaga's Mistake Day, Emma Straub, Susan Straub, Jessica Love, children's books
August 03, 2024

Twenty Years by Sune Engel Rasmussen

August 03, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Twenty Years by Sune Engel Rasmussen

An experienced Afghanistan reporter looks at the people who weren’t in the headlines

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August 03, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Twenty Years, Afghanistan, Sune Engle Rasmussen, US politics, US history, Afghanistan War, Sune Engel Rasmussen
August 01, 2024

Sea Level by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

August 01, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Sea Level by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

A short history of the concept of sea level — and its disturbing future

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August 01, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Sea Level, science, climate change
August 01, 2024

City in Ruins by Don Winslow

August 01, 2024/ Ryan Davison
City in Ruins by Don Winslow

Don Winslow's incongruent last novel leaves us wanting a stronger exit.

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August 01, 2024/ Ryan Davison/
City in Ruins, Don Winslow, fiction, contemporary fiction
July 30, 2024

Iron Imperator by Iskander Rehman

July 30, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Iron Imperator by Iskander Rehman

A well-illustrated new history of ancient Rome’s enigmatic Emperor Tiberius

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July 30, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Iron Imperator, Emperor Tiberius, Roman history, Roman emperors, Ancient Rome, ancient history, Iskander Rehman
July 28, 2024

The Missing Thread by Daisy Dunn

July 28, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Missing Thread by Daisy Dunn

An examination of the women of ancient times

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July 28, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Daisy Dunn, The Missing Thread, A Women's History of the Ancient Woerld, A Woman's History of the Ancient World, ancient history, women's history
July 25, 2024

The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon by Heath Hardage Lee

July 25, 2024/ Spencer Peacock
The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon by Heath Hardage Lee

A new biography of Richard Nixon’s First Lady

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July 25, 2024/ Spencer Peacock/
The Mysterious Mrs Nixon, Pat Nixon, Heath Hardage Lee, biography, presidential biography, First Lady Nixon, American history
July 24, 2024

Death on the Tiber by Lindsey Davis

July 24, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Death on the Tiber by Lindsey Davis

The daugher of Marcus Didius Falco catches another case in ancient Rome

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July 24, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Death on the Tiber, Lindsey Davis, ancient Rome, Roman historical fiction, murder mystery, historical murder mystery
July 24, 2024

The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

July 24, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

A new history recounts the turbulent beginnings of the Civil War

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July 24, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
July 23, 2024

Westlessness by Samir Puri

July 23, 2024/ Joe Spivey
Westlessness by Samir Puri

A scholar’s look at the precarious state of the West

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July 23, 2024/ Joe Spivey/
Westlessness, Samir Puri, history, politics
July 22, 2024

Alexander at the End of the World by Rachel Kousser

July 22, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Alexander at the End of the World by Rachel Kousser

A new account of the final years of Alexander the Great

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July 22, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Alexander the Great, Alexander at the End of the World, ancient history, biography, classical history
July 16, 2024

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

July 16, 2024/ Spencer Peacock
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

Love and profanity in Kevin Barry’s new novel set in the Old West

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July 16, 2024/ Spencer Peacock/
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