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This week on Books & Beats, Betsy Burton revisits an older favorite of hers—The Transit of Venus (Penguin) by Shirley Hazzard. It’s a post-World War II…
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In Be Frank with Me (William Morrow & Company), one boy’s honesty is shocking to the woman who’s been sent to help his mother—a famous novelist—finish her…
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In The Relic Master (Simon & Schuster), satirist Christopher Buckley turns his gaze to the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century and the sale of religious…
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In When Breath Becomes Air (Random House), a memoir by Paul Kalanithi, the young author—a brilliant surgeon—is diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Betsy…
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In The Drifter (Putnam), the debut thriller by Nicholas Petrie, a veteran still struggling with his time in Iraq and Afghanistan helps a fallen comrade’s…
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain (Doubleday) is the latest book from famed humorist Bill Bryson, in which he travels the…
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In Your Heart is a muscle the Size of a Fist (Lee Boudreau Books), the debut novel by Sunil Yapa, Victor, who’s been roaming the globe since he was…
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With a wink to one of the late rapper Biggie Smalls’s several monikers, The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Dey Street Books), a…
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Pulitzer-prize winning author Anthony Doerr’s first novel was About Grace (Penguin Books). In it, protagonist David Winkler is troubled by dreams of his…
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Home is Burning (Flatiron Books) is Dan Marshall’s memoir of coming of age in Utah in the 1980s. In her review, Betsy Burton says the book “will resonate…
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When is a newspaper reporting the news, and when is it inventing the news? That’s the question posed by Umberto Eco’s new thriller Numero Zero (Houghton…
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In The Witches: Salem, 1692 (Little Brown), author Stacy Schiff re-examines the infamous Salem Witch Trials, stripped of the ideas brought to us by…