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Spellbound
This week’s selection is meant to keep you on the edge of your beach chair, with books to be gobbled up quickly. An undocumented Ecuadorian...
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Everybody’s Looking for Something
These novels depict the search for answers—how to build a life, how to behave, and how to learn from the past. A Turkish writer gives us a snapshot...
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Missing Chapters
These five novels address disappearances. There is a suburban Long Island kidnapping inspired by true events; a community whose residents are...
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A Passport to Countless Adventures
This week we have a guest editor, bookseller extraordinaire Leah Bronstein, who has put together a superb selection of titles for young readers...
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A Quiet Place
These prose artists share a stylistic elegance that lends a quiet power to their writing. We encounter a tale about siblings and the power of...
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Watch Where You’re Going
The characters in this week’s selection are often introspective—sometimes to their detriment. This results in soulful contemplation, hilarity...
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Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind
Trouble is brewing here: in a simulated utopia; in a house full of secrets; from a struggling young woman’s career choice; in a transplanted...
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Out Loud
LGBTQ+ Pride Month begins today and we’re kicking off the celebration with two recommendations below, as well as a list of new and recent...
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On Their Own
Two novels about sisters (in France and on a Northern European Island) feature in this selection that launches Memorial Day weekend and the beginning of summer
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Where You’ll Find Me
Senegalese immigrants in Sicily, a translator from Greenland, a young woman looking for answers to her future, a cleaner in a chiropractor’s...