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Review: 'Cloud Cuckoo Land,' by Anthony Doerr
FICTION: Anthony Doerr's follow-up to his Pulitzer winner is bigger and more ambitious.
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Review: 'Lean Fall Stand,' by Jon McGregor
FICTION: A profoundly affecting story of the lives upended when a man loses his ability to communicate clearly.
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Review: 'The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet,' by Maureen Gibbon
FICTION: A quietly dazzling novel that focuses on the last three years in the life of artist Edouard Manet.
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Review: 'Forever Young: A Memoir,' by Hayley Mills
NONFICTION: Hayley Mills became a Disney darling at 12. Her new memoir recalls after that.
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Review: 'Reeling,' by Sarah Stonich
FICTION: The second novel in Sarah Stonich's planned trilogy tells a tender tale of fishing, fresh air and grief.
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Review: 'Snowflake,' by Louise Nealon
FICTION: This debut novel is a darkly comic coming of age story of a young woman in Ireland.
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Review: 'Bewilderment,' by Richard Powers
FICTION: A deeply moving story about an astrobiologist and his young son, anguished by the state of the planet.
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Review: 'On Freedom,' by Maggie Nelson
NONFICTION: A timely chance to think about freedom not as a state but a practice.
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Review: 'The Speckled Beauty,' by Rick Bragg
NONFICTION: An ornery, broken-down, used-up man and an ornery, broken-down, used-up dog find each other.
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The lost manuscript of Kate DiCamillo
Her new book, "The Beatryce Prophecy," sprang from a rediscovered draft that she had abandoned after the death of her beloved mother.
Long-lost manuscript sparked a new book by famed Minneapolis author Kate DiCamillo
Her new book "The Beatryce Prophecy" sprang from a draft she started and then abandoned after the death of her beloved mother.
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