Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set across multiple centuries.
Across The Centuries
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
by Olivia Laing
Hardcover: Jun 2024
Paperback: May 2025
Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise.
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The Creation of Half-Broken People: A Novel
by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Paperback: Apr 2025
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University's Windham–Campbell Prize.
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel
by Douglas Westerbeke
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Paperback: Apr 2025
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving.
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Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
by Leah Sottile
Hardcover: Mar 2025
An investigation of the New Age movement in America that aims to understand its appeal to women and the self-proclaimed prophetesses, like Love Has Won's Amy Carlson, who've created kingdoms for themselves within it.
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
by Cat Bohannon
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Feb 2025
The real origin of our species: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today
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Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by Tao Leigh Goffe
Hardcover: Jan 2025
A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today.
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Song of a Blackbird
by Marie van Lieshout
Hardcover: Jan 2025
Fictionalized but based on true events, Song of a Blackbird has two intertwined timelines: one is a modern-day family drama, the other a thrilling tale of a WWII-era bank heist carried out by Dutch resistance fighters.
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The Bullet Swallower: A Novel
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, ...
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Wild and Distant Seas: A Novel
by Tara Karr Roberts
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures.
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Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
by Marcus du Sautoy
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
An award-winning mathematician explores the math behind the games we love and why we love to play them.
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North Woods: A Novel
by Daniel Mason
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and ...
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There Are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel
by Elif Shafak
Hardcover: Aug 2024
In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign.
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