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Where Rivers Change Direction (Riverhead) chronicles author Mark Spragg’s experiences growing up on a dude ranch. In her review, Betsy Burton says it’s “a…
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Colson Whitehead’s new novel is called Underground Railroad (Doubleday). It’s a fictional take on one of the most important, and least visible, resistance…
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The Story of Land and Sea (Harper Perennial) by Katy Simpson Smith explores slavery during the American Revolution. Betsy Burton says it’s “a nuanced,…
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Mr. Eternity (Bloomsbury) is Aaron Thier’s new comic novel. It stars 18th-century English author Daniel Defoe (he wrote Robinson Crusoe and Moll…
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Marcella Hazan didn’t quite finish her latest book before her death. So her husband took it in hand and had Ingredienti: Marcella’s Guide to the Market…
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Maggie O’Farrell packs a lot into her new book. This Must Be the Place (Knopf) is a coming of age novel, a tale about family, a love story, and a look at…
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Hiking the Appalachian Trail changed Robert Moor’s life. In his book On Trails: An Exploration (Simon & Schuster), he examines trails in all their…
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The author Kent Haruf died in 2014. All of his novels take place in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado. On Books & Beats this week, Betsy Burton looks…
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Betsy Burton says, “Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel Homegoing (Knopf) was a publishing sensation before it even came out last month, vied for by ten publishers ……
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Manon Bradshaw is the star of Susie Steiner’s new mystery Missing, Presumed (Random House). She’s a lonely detective who’s tried internet dating, and…
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Betsy Burton says, “For anyone who grew up [in Utah]—or who wants to understand what it means to be a child of the fifties, Western, female, and…
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Annie Proulx’s hefty new novel Barkskins (Scribner) tells the story of forests and timber in America, following two families for centuries—starting in…