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A Wannabe Influencer Gets Sent To Digital Detox In 'Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous'

Sunny — the protagonist of Suzanne Park's new young adult novel — is mortified when a PG-13 video accidentally goes viral, and even worse, her parents send her to a rural farm to get her off-line.

June 05, 2021
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  • Alethea Kontis

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An Argentinean Novel Spins Countless Stories From A Bicycle Wheel

César Aira's The Divorce, a 2008 novel now out in English, centers around one charged moment at a Buenos Aires cafe, when water falling from an awning suddenly drenches a passing bicyclist.

June 05, 2021
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  • Kamil Ahsan
<em>Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby,</em> by Dan Abrams and David Fisher

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Jack Ruby's Trial Moves From Side Stage To Center In 'Kennedy's Avenger'

Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell a gripping tale that takes readers into the heart of Ruby's trial, picking up the moment he killed Oswald and then methodically unpacking what followed.

June 04, 2021
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  • Gabino Iglesias

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  • Book Reviews

An Office Rivalry Turns Strange — And Maybe Dangerous — In 'The Other Black Girl'

Zakiya Dalila Harris drew on her own experiences in publishing for her new thriller, about a young Black woman who hopes for a friend and ally when her lily-white office hires another Black woman.

June 04, 2021
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  • Bethanne Patrick

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  • Book Reviews

Yes, There Are Crimes — And Much More — In 'The Thousand Crimes Of Ming Tsu'

Tom Lin's new novel promises — and delivers — lots of crimes in a cinematic Western starring a Chinese American gunslinger on a mission of revenge against the men who sent him to work the railroads.

June 03, 2021
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  • Fran Wilde
<em>How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America</em>, by Clint Smith

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'How The Word Is Passed' Teaches The Importance Of Reckoning With History

Clint Smith seeks out troubling history, including white supremacy, white violence — and the erasure of the oppression of Black Americans — to understand what America tells itself about who we are.

June 02, 2021
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  • Hope Wabuke
<em>The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease,</em> by Daisy Hernández

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'The Kissing Bug' Challenges Which Diseases Matter — And Why

Through the story of her aunt, who died of Chagas, Daisy Hernández raises damning questions about which diseases get attention — and whom we believe to be deserving of care.

June 02, 2021
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  • Kristen Martin
<em>House of Sticks: A Memoir,</em> Ly Tran

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'House Of Sticks' Is An Immigrant Success Story With Filial Bonds At The Core

Ly Tran's narrative power lies in its nuanced celebration of family devotion that withstands the enormous cost of the American dream.

June 02, 2021
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  • Thúy Đinh

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  • Book Reviews

A Stunning Graphic Novel Uncovers The History Of Enslaved Women Who Fought Back

Wake, by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez, blends passion and fact to set a new standard for illustrated history: Not just action scenes of daring, desperate women, but the struggle to make them known.

May 30, 2021
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  • Etelka Lehoczky

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  • Book Reviews

'Sixteen Scandals' Rewinds A Teen Classic To Regency England

Sophie Jordan's romp of a novel follows Primrose Ainsworth, youngest of four sisters, who escapes the family on her 16th birthday for an adventure through Regency London with a charming mystery man.

May 29, 2021
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  • Alethea Kontis

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  • Book News & Features

Give 'The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection' A Buzz, You'll Bee Charmed

In Ben Brashares and Elizabeth Bergeland's charming new picture book, a discontented young boy finds a new way to carry on his family's legacy of awesomeness — and without hurting any bugs.

May 29, 2021
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  • Juanita Giles
<em>King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy</em>, Michael Dobbs

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'King Richard' Is A Fresh Retelling Of Watergate — With All The Drama

Michael Dobbs writes of a time when a bipartisan group in Congress could command respect as investigators, and when even leaders of the president's party were prepared to acknowledge his wrongdoing.

May 27, 2021
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  • Ron Elving
<em>Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution,</em> by Carlo Rovelli

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  • Book Reviews

'Helgoland' Offers A New Way To Understand The World, And Our Place In It

Carlo Rovelli writes that quantum mechanics tells us reality is a net of interactions where there are no things, only relationships; nothing has properties until it interacts with something else.

May 27, 2021
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  • Adam Frank

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  • Books

A Bullied Kid Finds Unconventional Freedom In 'Heaven'

Following the success of Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami's publishers are releasing a beautiful new translation of her 2016 novel Heaven, about an unnamed teen dealing with bullies at school.

May 25, 2021
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  • Lily Meyer

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  • Book Reviews

May's YA Brings Unlikely Connections Between Very Different Stories

At first glance, The Ones We're Meant to Find and Luck of the Titanic don't have much in common — one's historical, one's dystopia. But as you read, you'll see surprising thematic connections.

May 23, 2021
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  • Caitlyn Paxson
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