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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
By Emma Smith
An elegant look at literature’s transformative power.
Edited
By Barry Lyga
A clever though largely unsatisfying meta tale.
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
By David Maraniss
A magisterial biography of America’s greatest athlete.
Strange Fruit
By John R. Wennersten
A look at the longstanding racial strife in Maryland’s Somerset County.
L.A. Weather
By María Amparo Escandón
A Mexican American family navigates change in an exuberant, complicated city brought vividly to life.
War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance
By Daniel Akst
A look at the fighters who refused to take up arms.
Last Night in Brighton
By Massoud Hayoun
At loose ends, a gay Arab Jew seeks, well, something in Brooklyn.
Meet an influential record label you’ve probably never heard of.
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