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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
By Judith Tick
An exhaustive, unsatisfying look at one of the 20th century’s premier performers.
Predicting Our Climate Future
By David Stainforth
Are projections about global warming really just guesstimates?
November 1942
By Peter Englund; translated by Peter Graves
An extraordinary chronicle of ordinary people caught up in battle.
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
By Kate Winkler Dawson
What should’ve been a page-turner is more of a slog.
Homeward
By Angela Jackson-Brown
A young Black woman comes of age in the 1960s South.
Where the Evidence Takes Us: A Memoir of a Scotland Yard Detective
By Kevin O’Leary
An uneven, sometimes insightful reflection from a former lawman.
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
By Elyse Graham
Too many tangents derail what could’ve been an intriguing wartime tale.
The Picnic
By Matthew Longo
A sincere if sluggish account of a portentous 1989 gathering.
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