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'Home Is Not A Country' Imagines The Lives We Could Have Led

Safia Elhillo's novel follows a first-generation Muslim American girl who, bullied at school, longs for the homeland she's never really known and the alter ego who represents a more confident self.

March 04, 2021
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  • Nayantara Dutta

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'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality

Narrated by a robotic "artificial friend," Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel offers readers a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.

March 03, 2021
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  • Maureen Corrigan
<em>Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions,</em> by Michael Moss

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There Are So Many Flavors Of Potato Chips; 'Hooked' Looks At Why

Investigative reporter Michael Moss explores how some food companies tweak their products to take advantage of evolved biology, creating room for novelty that triggers the brain to make us want more.

March 03, 2021
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  • Barbara J. King

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Britain's MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In 'Slough House'

Mick Herron's brilliantly plotted series follows a group of maladroit MI5 agents who've somehow blown it with the agency. The latest installment is a timely novel set in a post-Brexit U.K.

March 02, 2021
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  • John Powers

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'Machinehood' Upgrades Asimov's 3 Laws Of Robotics

S.B. Divya's debut novel does what the best science fiction does — establishes a future that's relatable, plausible, and infinitely strange, where implants and wearable tech help humans survive.

March 02, 2021
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  • Fran Wilde

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'Klara And The Sun' Asks What It Means To Be Human

Kazuo Ishiguro's lovely, mournful new novel is set in a world where children can have android companions, known as Artificial Friends — but can those artificial friends ever replace the children?

March 02, 2021
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  • Annalisa Quinn

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To Summarize, 'Infinite Country' Can Be Frustrating

Patricia Engels' novel about the experiences of a Colombian family migrating to the U.S. stands out for its sharp writing — but frustrates in equal measure because of its reliance on summary.

February 27, 2021
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  • Lily Meyer

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  • Book Reviews

Love May Be 'For Losers,' But This Book Is For Everyone

Wibke Brueggemann's charmingly snarky YA novel follows teenaged Phoebe as she recovers from the Worst New Year's Ever and learns that not all of life's answers can be found via Google.

February 27, 2021
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  • Alethea Kontis

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  • Book Reviews

A Botched Execution Leads To A Search For Answers In 'Two Truths And A Lie'

Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for The Miami Herald, when she witnessed an execution that went horribly wrong. She revisits the case of Jesse Tafero in an intense new true crime book.

February 24, 2021
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Book Reviews

On 'The Kitchen Front,' 4 Women Cook Their Way To Victory

In Jennifer Ryan's new novel, set in England in 1942, four women from different backgrounds compete in a cooking contest with a possibly life-changing prize: The chance to cohost a BBC cooking show.

February 24, 2021
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  • Maria Godoy
<em>Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa,</em> by Matthew Gavin Frank

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Pigeons Star In A Tale Of Mining In 'Flight Of The Diamond Smugglers'

Journalist Matthew Gavin Frank exposes the history of South Africa's nefarious diamond industry, accompanied by a tale of pigeons and their role in subversion, in crisp and poetic prose.

February 23, 2021
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  • Martha Anne Toll
<em>Nubia: Real One</em>, by L.L. McKinney and Robyn Smith

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In 'Nubia: Real One,' Trying To Be A Hero When Society Thinks You're A Threat

Nubia has been many things over decades of comics: Wonder Woman's sister, her rival, a guardian of the underworld. Now, L.L. McKinney and Robyn Smith have re-imagined her as a Black American teenager.

February 22, 2021
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  • Juanita Giles

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Winter Not Cold Enough? Here Are 3 YA Thrillers To Chill You

Prickly, angry girls get to the bottom of mysterious disappearances — or cause them — in these three angsty YA novels, from a retelling of "The Cask of Amontillado" to a wild and frozen dystopia.

February 20, 2021
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  • Caitlyn Paxson

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  • Book Reviews

You Actually Will Be Talking About 'No One Is Talking About This'

Patricia Lockwood's first novel follows an Extremely Online woman whose life changes forever when her niece is born with a serious illness — which sounds Hallmark-ready, but Lockwood pulls it off.

February 18, 2021
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  • Heller McAlpin

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  • Book Reviews

'The Echo Wife' Layers Sci-Fi And Murder Mystery For A Twisty Treat

Sarah Gailey's new novel follows a famed geneticist whose husband uses her methods to clone her — and has an affair with the clone. When he's murdered, the two women must figure out to do next.

February 17, 2021
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  • Jason Heller
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