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#10: Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Amazon Top Ten - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 3:13pm

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Tim Ferriss (Author)
Release Date: November 21, 2017

Buy new: $28.00 $22.66

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In 'Crash Override,' Zoe Quinn Shares Her Boss Battle Against Online Harassment

NPR Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 1:00pm

Having watched many colleagues attacked for speaking up, gamer Latoya Peterson offers a deeply personal review "I applaud Quinn for ... accepting that she is messy, imperfect, and, well: Human."

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Newsbook: In Harvey and Irma’s Wake, 3 Books on Hurricanes

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 12:58pm

Two books follow families affected by similar disasters, and a third argues that humans may hold the key to mitigating their impact.

Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 12:05pm

Readers respond to the complicated relationship we have to Freud.

Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 12:00pm

In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: TK TK

Inside the List: James Patterson’s Latest Villain Looks a Lot Like Amazon

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 11:59am

“The Store,” at No. 4 after three weeks on the hardcover fiction list, features a married couple at war with a dominant online retailer.

Open Book: TV, Pre-Golden Age

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 11:49am

In “Little Boxes,” writers share how they were influenced by TV shows, in the days before prestige TV.

Paperback Row

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 11:49am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Children’s Books: All Kinds of Outrageous Behavior in These New Picture Books

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 11:00am

A little seed who’s unapologetically bad, a horrible baby brother, the kid who won’t stop screaming and more.

The Shortlist: Stories of Familial Unrest and Displacement

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 10:14am

Four new novels set around the globe explore the causes and consequences of family estrangement.

#10: It: A Novel

Amazon Top Ten - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 6:12am

It: A Novel
Stephen King (Author)
(2919)

Buy new: $19.99 $12.93
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Fiction: James Kelman’s ‘Dirt Road’ Travels a Path to Solace

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 5:00am

A father and son escape painful reminders of their lost loved ones in Scotland to discover a new outlook in the American South.

Fiction: A Sydney Bridge, a Falling Man and Three Witnesses to a Miracle

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 5:00am

The stories of three Australians in three different centuries are linked by a miraculous vision in Ashley Hay’s “The Body in the Clouds.”

Critic’s Take: The Novels Explaining Britain’s Path From the Raj to Brexit

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 5:00am

Revisiting Paul Scott’s “The Raj Quartet,” 70 years after the partition of India and Pakistan.

Nonfiction: The Man Whose Cabinet of Curios Helped Start the British Museum

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 5:00am

James Delbourgo’s “Collecting the World” recounts the life of Sir Hans Sloane, a pioneering natural scientist.

Fiction: The Posh, Psychological Thrills of ‘The Party’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 5:00am

Elizabeth Day dissects the 21st-century British class system in this novel rife with literary allusions.

Fiction: When Friendship Ends, Does Betrayal Begin?

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 5:00am

The teenagers in Claire Messud’s novel “The Burning Girl” have always been best friends. Now they’re growing painfully, possibly dangerously, apart.

Fiction: Mother and Daughter in a Doomsday Cult

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 5:00am

In Rebecca Wait’s novel “The Followers,” a lonely woman and her child are lured into an isolated community on the Yorkshire moors.

Nonfiction: A Memoir of Dieting in the Age of Total Body Vigilance

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/08/2017 - 12:00am

In “Beautiful Bodies,” Kimberly Rae Miller recounts her lifelong addiction to deprivation through dieting.

'Spettacolo' Lovingly Chronicles A Tuscan Theatrical Tradition In Decline

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 09/07/2017 - 5:00pm

Once a year, for 51 years, residents of the Tuscan hamlet Monticchielo have staged a play about their lives. A new documentary finds the town's younger generation is losing interest in the practice.

(Image credit: Mark Jenkins /Grasshopper Film)

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