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Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/06/2018 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Fiction: Are Her Characters Seeing Things? Maybe. Maybe Not.

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 04/05/2018 - 3:30pm

The stories in Tatyana Tolstaya’s new collection, “Aetherial Worlds” — which flit between real and imaginary realms — light up with flashes of pure transcendence.

#10: 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms

Amazon Top Ten - Thu, 04/05/2018 - 3:13pm

50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms
Dev Aujla (Author), Lodro Rinzler (Foreword)
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Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 04/05/2018 - 12:44pm

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

'The Chandelier' Is A Stop-Motion, Shaggy Dog Masterpiece

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 04/05/2018 - 10:00am

Brazilian modernist Clarice Lispector's second novel, written when she was 26, is an essentially story-free story, fragmentary and obsessed with the nature of thought — but it will carry you away.

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Nonfiction: A Memoir of Near-Death Experiences

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 04/05/2018 - 5:00am

Maggie O’Farrell’s “I Am I Am I Am” recounts a life lived on the brink of dying.

By the Book: John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 04/05/2018 - 5:00am

The historian John Lewis Gaddis, whose new book is “On Grand Strategy,” finds train videos relaxing: “I especially recommend the six-hour run from Omsk to Novosibirsk, on which nothing happens.”

Nonfiction: Meet the Dreamers Who Walked 1,500 Miles to Stay in America

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 04/04/2018 - 3:30pm

“The Making of a Dream,” by Laura Wides-Muñoz, recounts the long and unfinished battle for immigration reform through the stories of young activists.

Suffering From Nature Deficit Disorder? Try Forest Bathing

NPR Book Reviews - Wed, 04/04/2018 - 11:54am

Positive scientific results aside, the idea of shinrin-yoku shouldn't be surprising: Who hasn't felt an inner sense of well-being when walking along a forest trail? asks commentator Marcelo Gleiser.

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Love (And Music And Glitter) Saves The Day In 'Space Opera'

NPR Book Reviews - Wed, 04/04/2018 - 10:00am

In Catherynne M. Valente's new novel, a washed-up glitter punk musician has to save all humanity by singing in an intergalactic version of the Eurovision Song Contest. (Also, there are murderhippos.)

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'Two Sisters' Leave Home For Syria, Tearing A Family Apart

NPR Book Reviews - Wed, 04/04/2018 - 7:00am

Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad's new book is a heartbreaking but necessary account of two teenage sisters from a moderate Muslim family who fled to war-torn Syria after becoming radicalized.

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Nonfiction: What’s a Zucchini? And Other Questions Americans Once Asked

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 04/04/2018 - 5:00am

Daniel Stone’s “The Food Explorer” tags along with a world-traveling Gilded Age botanist whose agricultural discoveries changed the American diet.

#7: Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story

Amazon Top Ten - Wed, 04/04/2018 - 3:03am

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story
Cecile Richards (Author)

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#10: Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country

Amazon Top Ten - Wed, 04/04/2018 - 12:03am

Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country
Tim Scott (Author), Trey Gowdy (Author)
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#3: Michael Symon's Playing with Fire: BBQ and More from the Grill, Smoker, and Fireplace

Amazon Top Ten - Tue, 04/03/2018 - 9:03pm

Michael Symon's Playing with Fire: BBQ and More from the Grill, Smoker, and Fireplace
Michael Symon (Author), Douglas Trattner (Author)

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#4: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Amazon Top Ten - Tue, 04/03/2018 - 9:03pm

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling (Author), Anna Rosling Rönnlund (Author), Ola Rosling (Author)

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#8: Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence

Amazon Top Ten - Tue, 04/03/2018 - 6:02pm

Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence
Nick Caruso (Author), Dani Rabaiotti (Author)

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