Literature
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Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to nonfiction and explores the power of stories in upcoming ‘The Message’May 30, 2024 7:37 am - For his first all-new book of nonfiction in nearly a decade, Ta-Nehisi Coates traveled the world. One World announced Thursday that Coates' “The Message” will be published Oct. 1.
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Book Review: A dark secret exposed about a World War II internment camp in ‘First Frost’May 28, 2024 1:26 pm - Walt Longmire and his deputy are poking around in his basement when she spots a relic of his youth, a hundred-pound Bob Simmons-model surfboard. “You’re too big to surf,”...
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Book Review: ‘Ascent to Power’ studies how Harry Truman overcame lack of preparation in transition
May 28, 2024 6:22 am - Once a senator who complained that the 32nd president treated him like “an office boy,” Harry Truman left the White House in 1953 as one of the most accomplished presidents. Those events are the focus of David L. Roll's “Ascent to Power.”
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Book Review: ‘Cujo’ character returns as one of 12 stories in Stephen King’s ‘You Like It Darker’May 20, 2024 4:57 pm - In Stephen King’s world, “It” is a loaded word. It’s hard not to picture Pennywise the Clown haunting the sewers of Derry, Maine, of course, but in the horror writer’s ne...
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Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92
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Batavia’s Books Between Bites welcomes author Karl Bruhn on May 16May 13, 2024 8:55 pm - Batavia's popular monthly lunchtime book program, Books Between Bites, concludes for the season on Thursday, May 16, with Batavian Karl Bruhn sharing a presentation about...
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Book review: Veronica Roth taps into her Polish roots for ‘When Among Crows,’ a lore-packed novellaMay 13, 2024 1:35 pm - Dymitr is on a personal mission, and it starts with facing the mythical leszy who’s guarding the fern flower as it blooms for the summer solstice. “When Among Crows,” a n...
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Book Review: Anonymous public servants are the heart of George Stephanopoulos’ ‘Situation Room’May 13, 2024 11:04 am - The biggest challenge for an author tackling the history of the Situation Room, the basement room of the White House where some of the biggest intelligence crises have be...
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Book review: ‘Challenger’ is definitive account of shuttle disaster and missteps that led to tragedy
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Book review: Memoirist Lilly Dancyger’s penetrating essays explore the power of female friendships