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Review: 'A Long Petal of the Sea,' by Isabel Allende
FICTION: A family's flight from the bloody Spanish Civil War to a new life in Chile forms the arc of this powerful novel.
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Review: 'Homie,' by Danez Smith
POETRY: In this third collection, Danez Smith's poems burst with rage and love.
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NBCC Finalists announced, including Ronan Farrow and Colson Whitehead
The finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards were announced in New York.
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Review: 'Imperfect Union,' by Steve Inskeep
NONFICTION: A vibrant portrait of John and Jessie Frémont mirrors the ferment of 19th-century political intrigue.
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Review: 'How Quickly She Disappears,' Raymond Fleischmann
FICTION: Alaska-set thriller hinges on the relationship between a lonely woman and a killer.
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Review: 'Pravda Ha Ha,' by Rory MacLean
NONFICTION: The author of "Stalin's Nose" returns to Russia to try to understand what has happened to the world since the fall of Communism.
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Review: 'The Secret Guests,' by Benjamin Black
FICTION: In this thriller, Britain's princesses are spirited to Ireland during the Blitz.
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Review: 'All My Cats,' by Bohumil Hrabal, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
NONFICTION: A short yet captivating memoir from a Czech master about the pleasures and pains of cats, and the brutality of nature.
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Author tackles Gen X women's midlife crisis: 'You're not imagining it, and it's not just you'
NONFICTION: Journalist Ada Calhoun plumbs the question of what's keeping women up at night.
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Review: 'The Magical Language of Others,' by E.J. Koh
NONFICTION: Language serves as a fortress of solitude for child whose parents returned to South Korea.
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Review: 'Creatures,' by Crissy Van Meter
FICTION: The rhythms of island life provide a rough structure and constancy in this sharply observed Bildungsroman.
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Review: 'The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree' by Shokoofeh Azar
FICTION: An Iranian family flees persecution in Tehran for a remote village after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
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