Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set across multiple centuries.
Across The Centuries
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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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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by Evan Friss
Hardcover: Aug 2024
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest...
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Toward Eternity: A Novel
by Anton Hur
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it ...
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
by Olivia Laing
Hardcover: Jun 2024
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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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
by Kellie Carter Jackson
Hardcover: Jun 2024
A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy.
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
by Lisa Kaltenegger
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel
by Douglas Westerbeke
Hardcover: Apr 2024
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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A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
by Lauren Markham
Hardcover: Feb 2024
A mesmerizing, trailblazing synthesis of reporting, history, memoir, and essay.
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