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#10: Born Trump: Inside America’s First Family

Amazon Top Ten - Fri, 06/22/2018 - 4:08am

Born Trump: Inside America’s First Family
Emily Jane Fox (Author)
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#1: Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

Amazon Top Ten - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 10:04pm

Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Charles Krauthammer (Author)
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#4: Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

Amazon Top Ten - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 10:04pm

Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Charles Krauthammer (Author)
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2 Books Find Fuel In The American Landscape

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 3:14pm

Critic Maureen Corrigan recommends two books to expand your horizons: One is a cultural history of the great American road trip; the other an early 20th-century classic of Midwestern rural life.

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Fiction: This Novel Opens With a Suicide and a Suitcase of Cash. Then Things Get Really Interesting.

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 3:00pm

Rebekah Frumkin’s debut, “The Comedown,” is the drugs-and-crime tragedy of two Cleveland clans discovering the fluidity of life and of the self.

Making the Language Strange, as Only Poetry Can Do

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 2:31pm

In her collection “Yeah No,” Jane Gregory adopts an otherworldly voice like a medium channeling signals from the great elsewhere.

Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 12:03pm

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Nonfiction: How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 10:28am

In “Selfie,” Will Storr searches for the roots of Western narcissism, a journey that takes him from a Scottish cloister to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur.

'Tell The Machine' Is A Lucid Dream Of Sci-Fi Perfection

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 7:00am

Katie Williams' debut novel follows a woman who works for a company that can tell you infallibly how to become happy — and a drifting group of characters who aren't really looking for happiness.

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Librarian Nancy Pearl Picks 7 Books For Summer Reading

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 5:04am

Pearl's under-the-radar recommendations include a children's fantasy, a murder mystery set in 1919 Kolkata and an entire book dedicated to the events of 1947.

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By the Book: Samantha Hunt: By the Book

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 5:00am

The author Samantha Hunt, whose novel “The Seas” will be reissued in July, has started an apocalypse library: “I enjoy all these books. I just hope I’ll never need them to survive.”

Nonfiction: In One City, 2,000 Years of Gay History

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 5:00am

Peter Ackroyd’s “Queer City” is an enticingly dishy and detailed tour of gay life in London, from the Roman era all the way through to the present.

Nonfiction: A Writer Takes On the French Intelligentsia Over Muslims

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/21/2018 - 5:00am

In “The End of the French Intellectual,” Shlomo Sand argues the case that Muslims have replaced Jews as the country’s most oppressed people.

#5: This Will Only Hurt a Little

Amazon Top Ten - Wed, 06/20/2018 - 9:54pm

This Will Only Hurt a Little
Busy Philipps (Author)
Release Date: October 23, 2018

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An Adolescence of Skateboards, Fistfights and Sexual Yearning, Turned Into Pure Poetry

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 06/20/2018 - 5:39pm

Matthew Dickman’s new collection of poems, “Wonderland,” revisits his teenage years.

Nonfiction: A Biography Charts an Odysseus Sidelined by Mental Illness

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 06/20/2018 - 5:00pm

In “The Kevin Show,” Mary Pilon chronicles Kevin Hall’s long (and long-foiled) quest for Olympic gold in catamaran sailing.

The Enthusiast: In Praise of Julia Alvarez

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 06/20/2018 - 4:00pm

“By the time I found ‘How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,’ I’d already resigned myself to using books as windows rather than mirrors.”

#7: The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out

Amazon Top Ten - Wed, 06/20/2018 - 3:50pm

The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out
Dr. Robynne Chutkan M.D. (Author)
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Nonfiction: What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump?

NY Times Book Reviews - Wed, 06/20/2018 - 3:00pm

Stephen Greenblatt’s “Tyrant” finds parallels between our political world and that of the Elizabethans — and locates some very familiar characters.

2 First-Rate Novels Celebrate The Humor And Heroism Of Unconventional Women

NPR Book Reviews - Wed, 06/20/2018 - 1:54pm

Authors Dorthe Nors and Sayaka Murata use bracing good humor to subvert readers' expectations about single women in their new novels, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal and Convenience Store Woman.

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