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5 Great (and Weird) Books You May Have Missed in October

5 Great (and Weird) Books You May Have Missed in October

From People Transforming Into Plants to Children Who Talk to the Dead

By Bethanne Patrick | November 9, 2018

5 Great Books You May Have Missed in September

5 Great Books You May Have Missed in September

From Kitchen Romance in the Ottoman Empire to the Life of Leonora Carrington

By Bethanne Patrick | October 4, 2018

5 Great Novels You May Have Missed in August

5 Great Novels You May Have Missed in August

From War-Ravaged Europe to 19th-Century Korea...

By Bethanne Patrick | September 6, 2018

5 Great Books From July You May Have Missed

5 Great Books From July You May Have Missed

From the Basque Diaspora to Open Relationships Gone South...

By Bethanne Patrick | August 2, 2018

5 Great Books You May Have Missed in June

5 Great Books You May Have Missed in June

From Western Australia to Smalltown New York

By Bethanne Patrick | July 11, 2018

5 Great Books You Might Have Overlooked in May

5 Great Books You Might Have Overlooked in May

From Norwegian Icons to Mysterious Mennonites

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Alice McDermott's America is <em>Not</em> of a Bygone Era

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Gail Godwin on a Life of Writing

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The Author of Grief Cottage in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick

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5 Great Books You May Have Missed in September

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5 Great August Books You May Have Missed

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From WWII Drama to Ozark Creepiness

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Sympathy for the Rich? A Conversation with Christopher Bollen

Sympathy for the Rich? A Conversation with Christopher Bollen

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