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ACLS Events - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 3:25pm

11/27/24 @ 9:00am - 11/27/24 @ 1:00pm Hammonton Meeting Room Hammonton

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Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 3:14pm

Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel about the rise and fall of a rural Colombian village as seen through generations of its founding family remains the leading exemplar of magical realism.

Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

New York Times Book News - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 3:14pm

Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel about the rise and fall of a rural Colombian village as seen through generations of its founding family remains the leading exemplar of magical realism.

New Crime Novels

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 11:07am

Our critic on November’s best new books.

New Crime Novels

New York Times Book News - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 11:07am

Our critic on November’s best new books.

For a Raw Portrait of War, Look to Palestinian Poets

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 5:01am

In their new collections, Mosab Abu Toha and Najwan Darwish share unvarnished views of destruction, displacement and loss.

Two New Picture Books Set the Table for an Object Lesson

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 5:01am

Sometimes a spoon is just a spoon.

For a Raw Portrait of War, Look to Palestinian Poets

New York Times Book News - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 5:01am

In their new collections, Mosab Abu Toha and Najwan Darwish share unvarnished views of destruction, displacement and loss.

Two New Picture Books Set the Table for an Object Lesson

New York Times Book News - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 5:01am

Sometimes a spoon is just a spoon.

Spencer Lawton Jr., D.A. in ‘Midnight in the Garden’ Case, Dies at 81

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 5:00pm

He devoted much of his 28 years in office in Savannah to victims’ rights, but he was best known for his role in a 1981 murder at the center of a best seller and its movie version.

Spencer Lawton Jr., D.A. in ‘Midnight in the Garden’ Case, Dies at 81

New York Times Book News - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 5:00pm

He devoted much of his 28 years in office in Savannah to victims’ rights, but he was best known for his role in a 1981 murder at the center of a best seller and its movie version.

6 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 3:52pm

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

6 New Books We Recommend This Week

New York Times Book News - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 3:52pm

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Sex and Horror and the End of the World, in November’s Graphic Novels

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 5:05am

This month’s offerings include a collection of warped horror stories, an apocalyptic flood narrative and a hero doing battle with a super-being who sees humankind as a race of pests to eliminate.

Sex and Horror and the End of the World, in November’s Graphic Novels

New York Times Book News - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 5:05am

This month’s offerings include a collection of warped horror stories, an apocalyptic flood narrative and a hero doing battle with a super-being who sees humankind as a race of pests to eliminate.

Book Review: ‘Family Romance,’ by Jean Strouse

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 5:03am

Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas.

Book Review: ‘Family Romance,’ by Jean Strouse

New York Times Book News - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 5:03am

Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas.

Interview: Glory Edim on ‘Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me’

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 5:00am

Her own is called “Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me,” which follows anthologies that grew out of founding the Well-Read Black Girl book club.

Interview: Glory Edim on ‘Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me’

New York Times Book News - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 5:00am

Her own is called “Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me,” which follows anthologies that grew out of founding the Well-Read Black Girl book club.

Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:36pm

Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”

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