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| | | February 26, 2018 |  From Emma Hooper to Anne Tyler | Barbara’s Fiction Picks Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert Along with new works by Anne Tyler and Kevin Wilson, this week’s top picks go worldwide with fiction in translation (Mexican author Martin Solares’s Don't Send Flowers and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights), plus Irish author Nuala O'Connor’s Becoming Belle and Brazil-born Frances de Pontes Peebles’s The Air You Breathe. O’Connor and Peebles both offer historical works—set in Victorian London and 1930s Brazil, respectively—while Linnea Hartsuyker’s The Sea Queen is another historical, continuing her investigation of medieval Norse history. |
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|  Knausgaard, Macy, Tomalin, & More | Barbara’s Nonfiction Picks Some of the best nonfiction titles this month address the embroiled America present, from Chris Hedges’s America: The Farewell Tour to Beth Macy’s Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America. Science is also strong this month—see Eric R. Kandel’s The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves and David Quammen’s The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, plus more science/medical previews below. Focusing on climate change in America, Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island combines both themes. |
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|  Gangsters, Feminists, & Brazil | History Previews My history coverage typically boasts big books on the Civil War and World War II, staples of the publishing industry, but this month is a little different. Big titles range from Sam Anderson's Boom Town, about the growth of Oklahoma City; Phyllis Chesler's A Politically Incorrect Feminist, about the late Sixties–early Seventies feminist movement, and Lilia M. Schwarcz & Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil: A Biography. |
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|  From Heiress to Novelist to Impostor | Biography/Memoir Previews According to LJ’s 2018 materials survey, biography/memoir has claimed the top spot among nonfiction circulators in U.S. public libraries. This month’s biography includes studies of heiress Doris Duke and author Anthony Powell, while memoir embraces novelist Mitchell Jackson and Oxford English professor Bart Van Es, who searches out the Jewish girl relatives hid during the Holocaust. For the memoir of a biographer, check on Claire Tomalin’s A Life of My Own in Nonfiction Picks |
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| |  Of Current Interest | Nonfiction Previews Conformity via computer, entrenched racism in U.S, police departments, the shift to the gig economy, and the relationship between masculinity and violence—these are some hot-button issues addressed by key books being published in August |
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|  From New Matter to the Flu | Science & Medical Previews One hundred years after the Spanish flu took 50 million lives worldwide, two books—Catharine Arnold’s Pandemic 1918 and Jeremy Brown’s Influenza—examine both the unfolding events and the consequences. Other titles chronicle the hunt for a new form of matter and the hope of developing an artificial heart. |
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|  More Power Debut Novels | Fiction Previews During the big fall season, fewer debut novels are published, and August is frequently the run-up month with great titles sneaking in from authors who aren't yet big names. Here are four more big debuts to add to "Debuts with Credentials," featured two weeks ago. |
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|  Pop Fiction from Robert Jackson Bennett to Koren Zailckas | Fiction Previews Earlier this month, I featured both mysteries and thrillers, but more have surfaced, among them Sandra Brown's Tailspin, Janet Evanovich & Raymond Benson's The Mark, and Sophe Hannah's The Mystery of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery. In addition, you'll find top sf/fantasy, historical, and women's fiction. |
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