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Readers who long imagined themselves in Harry Potter’s world have a chance to immerse themselves in another fictional universe created by J.K. Rowling. The author said Tuesday that she would release “The Ickabog,” a new story for young…
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Nancy Omeara has lived all over the USA, plus seven other countries and visited another dozen. Her ideas about how the world could be are succinctly included in this book which she wrote and then shortened to make it a fun, smart read. …
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THE DEATH OF JESUSBy J. M. CoetzeeBefore Jesus became the man-god of Christianity, he was a brat. Or so say the Infancy Gospels, gnostic folk tales popular in their day but left out of the Scriptures for obvious reasons. The stories…
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THE CUBANS Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary TimesBy Anthony DePalmaAlmost exactly 40 years ago, in the spring of 1980 — even as cherry blossoms swept down the streets of Washington, D.C., the Iran hostage crisis crept toward a halfway…
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REVOLVERSam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed AmericaBy Jim RasenbergerTOMBSTONEThe Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride From HellBy Tom ClavinYou recognize the gun. It is elegant yet functional, clever yet intuitive.…
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Recent audiobooks of interest:MY VANISHING COUNTRY: A Memoir, by Bakari Sellers, read by the author. (HarperAudio.) The former South Carolina state representative and current CNN political analyst tells the story of his upbringing within…
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The journalist Meredith Talusan was a young teenager in a small town in the Philippines when, in 1989, the legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw proposed the concept of intersectionality to describe the ways in which race and gender and…
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RED DRESS IN BLACK AND WHITEBy Elliot AckermanElliot Ackerman, who served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, is known for writing novels set at the burning edges of wars. The beautifully spare “Waiting for Eden” is told by a…
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Kenny Chesney was supposed to take the stage last month in his signature straw hat and weathered boots at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas. The event was designed to help kick off an album, “Here And Now,” on which he had worked for about…
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Addison Cain was living in Kyoto, volunteering at a shrine and studying indigenous Japanese religion. She was supposed to be working on a scholarly book about her research, but started writing intensely erotic Batman fan fiction…
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