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'Bizarre Romance' Finds Love, But Misses That Perfect Moment

NPR Book Reviews - Tue, 03/20/2018 - 7:00am

Audrey Niffenegger's new book is a collaboration with her husband, comics artist Eddie Campbell — but Campbell's style doesn't jell with Niffenegger's writing, leading to an uneven experience.

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Match Book: Dear Match Book: Reading for Precocious Preteens

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 03/20/2018 - 5:00am

Adolescent-appropriate fiction to challenge and inspire budding bookworms.

#9: Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

Amazon Top Ten - Tue, 03/20/2018 - 1:22am

Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends
Peter Schweizer (Author)
Release Date: March 20, 2018

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Nonfiction: The Revolution Has Been Televised

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 5:59pm

Joy Press’s new book, “Stealing the Show,” traces the ways in which women have transformed the TV landscape.

Fiction: Turf Wars of the Ultra-Wealthy, Upper East Side Style

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 5:43pm

Caitlin Macy’s novel “Mrs.” homes in on the conflicted lives of three Manhattan women and the corrupt man on whom they take vengeance.

Children’s Books: In New Books for Kids, Women’s Victories Speak Loud and Clear

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 4:39pm

On the road to equality, women’s historic achievements have often been dry footnotes in American schools. These authors are out to change that.

#5: Marlon Bundo's Day in the Life of the Vice President

Amazon Top Ten - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 4:20pm

Marlon Bundo's Day in the Life of the Vice President
Charlotte Pence (Author), Karen Pence (Illustrator)
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Nonfiction: When Doctors Don’t Listen to Women

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 3:54pm

Abby Norman’s “Ask Me About My Uterus” describes her quest to get proper medical attention.

Nonfiction: Trust Your Own Heart, Write Your Own Story and Fight On

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 3:35pm

In “Dear Madam President,” the Clinton campaign’s former communications director Jennifer Palmieri tells young women how to succeed in politics.

Nonfiction: How Silicon Valley Turned Into ‘Brotopia’

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 3:14pm

Emily Chang examines a tech culture that has become a boys’ club, hostile and averse to women.

Books of The Times: A New Biography Traces Tiger Woods’s Mythical Rise and Fall

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 1:14pm

Like a pair of supersleuths, Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian reconstruct the golfer’s life and offer new angles on old stories.

Nonfiction: Science’s Invisible Women

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 12:51pm

Two new books, Patricia Fara’s “A Lab of One’s Own” and Claire L. Evans’s “Broad Band,” put women back into the history of science.

#1: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

Amazon Top Ten - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 7:18am

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
Jill Twist (Author), Marlon Bundo (Author), EG Keller (Illustrator)
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Nonfiction: Come-Ons, Takedowns and Insults: What It’s Like to Write Comedy as a Woman

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 5:00am

In “Just the Funny Parts,” Nell Scovell — who’s crafted jokes for everyone from David Letterman to President Obama — describes the toxic misogyny she’s endured.

Essay: Before #MeToo, There Was Catharine A. MacKinnon and Her Book ‘Sexual Harassment of Working Women’

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 03/19/2018 - 5:00am

Why did it take nearly four decades for the world to realize that she was right?

'The Sparsholt Affair' Finds Truth Somewhere Between Satire And Sentiment

NPR Book Reviews - Sat, 03/17/2018 - 7:00am

Novelist Alan Hollinghurst's latest chronicles changing attitudes towards homosexuality in Britain through the stories of a closeted gay man — and later, his son — in the decades after World War II.

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