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| | | February 13, 2017 | |  Fiction Beyond Our Borders | Barbara’s Picks
Barbara Hoffert, - @barbarahoffert
From Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman to NBCC finalist Laurent Binet’s The Seventh Function of Language to Ayobami Adebayo’s Nigerian-set Stay with Me; from Dina Nayeri’s Refuge and Ian Bassingthwaighte’s Live from Cairo, views on the refugee crisis from Iran and Egypt, respectively; from new works by British authors Even Chase (The Wildling Sisters) and Sarah Hall (Madame Zero) to Spanish award winner Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Like a Fading Shadow, which tracks Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassin abroad; all the way to Gork, the Teenage Dragon in outer space, here are a dozen books that race beyond America’s borders.
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|  Science, Knausgaard, & America from Abroad | Barbara’s Nonfiction Picks Earthquakes, evolution, and trying to birth a woolly mammoth; Karl Ove Knausgaard's memoir to his unborn daughter, titled Autumn and the first in a four-volume series; policing African American men; and a journalist's look at America from her base in the Middle East—eight key nonfiction titles for the summer. |
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| |  Writers To Watch | Literary Fiction Previews Some great debuts here—e.g., Zinzi Clemmons’s What We Lose and Biana Marais's Hum If You Don’t Know the Words, both South Africa–referenced; Curtis Dawkins’s prison-based The Graybar Hotel: Stories; Brian Platzer’s Bed-Stuy Is Burning; and Irish author Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends. Plus new work from Donal Ryan and award winner Ian Stansel’s first long fiction. |
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|  Cleeves, Muller, & More | Mystery Previews Telling Tales, an early entry in Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series, basis of the BBC hit; The Color of Fear, a personal case for Marcia Muller's private investigator, Sharon McCone; plus works from Donna Andrews, Bill Crider, Julia, Keller, and more. Mystery for everyone. |
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|  Register Now for Day of Dialog 2017 Book Expo America is back in New York this year, and so is Day of Dialog, convening on Wednesday, May 31, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 542 W. 59th Street. Register now for a full day of panels. |
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|  Nuts and Bolts Solutions to your Collection Quandaries Tune in Wednesday at 1pm ET, as Jamie L. Watson, head of collection development at Baltimore County PL, shares solutions to common problems, including details like shelving allocation recommendations for floating collections. The webcast also includes a special discount code for our Collection Development & Merchandising course. |
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