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| | | October 9, 2017 |  Ball, Forna, Frazier, Mayes, & Nesbø | Barbara’s Fiction Picks Barbara Hoffert, @barbarahoffert Charles Frazier's Varina and Frances Mayes's Women in Sunlight will gratify fans by revisiting the Civil War South and beautiful Tuscany, respectively. Maenwhile, Jo Nesbø pulls a surprise by adding to the Hogarth Shakespeare series' contemporary rethinking of the Bard's great plays with a creepy, 1970s-set Macbeth. And award-winning authors Jesse Ball (Census) and Aminatta Forna (Happiness) strut their stuff and get a chance to break out to larger audiences. |
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|  Albright, King, Moore, Pardlo, & Snyder | Barbara’s Nonfiction Picks Madeleine Albright's Fascism and Timothy Snyder's The Origins of Unfreedom examine the wave of power- not-to-all-the-people thinking that's hit the world today. A Pulitzer Prize winner in nonfiction, Gilbert King revisits a race- and class-fraught crime in 1957 Florida in Beneath a Ruthless Sun. A Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, Gregory Pardlo offers a father-and-son memoir in Air Traffic. And short story genius Lorrie Moore turns out her first collection of essays, See What Can Be Done. |
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| |  Deveraux, Steel, & Lots of Fantasy Award Winners | Pop Fiction Previews Along with Jude Deveraux, Shelley Shepard Gray, and Danielle Steel, pop fiction this month includes lots of top fantasy authors, with works from award winners like Anne Bishop (Lake Silence) and Kim Wilkins (Daughters of the Storm), an Australian author looking to break out here. Plus, the mega-best-selling Karen Marie Moning starts a new story arc as she dreams up another Fever novel. |
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|  Award-Worthy Authors from Ausubel to Tolstaya | Fiction Previews PEN Center USA Fiction Award winner Ramona Ausubel, Montana Prize winner Taylor Brown, Discover Great New Writers honoree Joe Pineda, O. Henry Award winner Christine Schutt (also a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist), plus a rafter of other prize finalists from Jennifer Clement to Michael David Lukas are lining up this spring with smart books for smart readers. |
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| NBA Fiction Finalists - Eliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing
- Lisa Ko, The Leavers
- Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
- Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
- Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing
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|  Royalty, Sports, & the Oppressed | Memoir & Biography Previews From Richard III to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the royalty this month proves to be controversial indeed, as the subtitle of Chris Skidmore's biography of Richard suggests. Basketball stars Ray Allen and Elgin Baylor dribble their way onto the page. And, crucially, Anthony Ray Hinton's The Sun Does Shine tells how he survived 30 years on death row after a wrongful conviction. |
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|  Painters, Photographers, Rappers, and Andrew Lloyd Webber | Arts Previews Joining Andrew Lloyd Webber for his starry (and fabulously named) memoir, Unmasked, painter Duncan Hannah collects Seventies notebooks in Twentieth-Century Boy and Lamont “U-God” Hawkins chronicles the Wu-Tang Clan in Raw, while famed photographer Arthur Fellig, aka Weegee, gets the full biographical treatment. In addition, Joy Press's Stealing the Show shows, as the subtitle says, How Women Are Revolutionizing Television. |
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