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33 novels, thrillers and young adult books you'll want to read this summer
Whether you're sipping coffee on the porch, lounging in a beach chair or camping in a tent, you're going to need a book.
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Review: 'Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient,' by Theresa Brown
NONFICTION: A former nurse calls out the lack of compassion in health care with eloquence and fury.
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Review: 'Sleeping Alone: Stories,' by Ru Freeman
FICTION: An accomplished debut collection of short stories from the author of "On Sal Mal Lane."
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Review: 'The Visitors,' by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
FICTION: A woman navigates a crumbling world and identities during the time of Occupy Wall Street.
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Review: 'Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind,' by N. Scott Momaday
NONFICTION: A collection of poetic essays and drawings by Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday honors the magic of expression through words and imagination.
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Review: 'Last Summer on State Street,' by Toya Wolfe
FICTION: A poignant look at growing up in Chicago public housing by a debut novelist who lived in one of the city's most notorious developments.
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Review: 'Pig Years,' by Ellyn Gaydos
NONFICTION: A seasonal farmhand writes about the beauty and toughness of making a living off the land.
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Review: 'The Wet Hex' by Sun Yung Shin
POETRY: In mythic poems, Shin explores the world of transnational adoption and the lives of the "castaways."
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Review: 'Companion Piece,' by Ali Smith
FICTION: Ali Smith's first novel since her seasonal quartet takes place in our pandemic-inflected world.
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Literary giant Fiona McCrae moves on from Minnesota's Graywolf Press
Fiona McCrae brought Minnesota's Graywolf Press from a small regional publisher to a worldwide literary powerhouse.
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Review: 'Bitter Orange Tree,' by Jokha Alharthi
FICTION: A meditative novel from a Booker Prize winner about an Omani woman who reflects on the life of her grandmother.
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Review: 'Mother Country,' by Jacinda Townsend
FICTION: Jacinda Townsend's new novel explores motherhood's borders and boundaries.
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Review: 'Teachers in the Forest,' by Barry Babcock
NONFICTION: Barry Babcock's inspirations include an Ojibwe spiritual leader and wolves.
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Review: 'Happy-Go-Lucky' by David Sedaris
NONFICTION: More comic essays, this time in a more somber vein, from the celebrated satirist.
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