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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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Review: 'Sovietistan,' by Erika Fatland
NONFICTION: Norwegian writer Erika Fatland journeys through Central Asia in an account of personal daring and graceful reportage.
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REVIEW: 'The German House,' by Annette Hess, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer
FICTION: Annette Hess' novel of the 1963 Nazi trials falls flat.
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Review: 'Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?' by Brock Clarke
FICTION: A lonely middle-aged man takes off with his aunt on a trip of adventures and crimes. And yes, you've read something like this before.
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Review: 'The Colonel's Wife,' by Rosa Liksom, translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers
FICTION: A woman looks back on her life, coming to terms with the fact that she spent most of her years as an apologist for fascism.
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Review: 'The Second Sleep,' by Robert Harris
FICTION: Set 800 years in the future during a second Dark Age, a priest becomes obsessed with the vanished society of current Britain.
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Review: 'Such a Fun Age,' by Kiley Reid
FICTION: Kiley Reid's brilliant debut engages with contemporary matters without losing sight of the characters at its center.
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