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June 26, 2025

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Book Review: Kelsey McKinney wants gossip reconsidered in ‘You Didn’t Hear This from Me’

February 22, 2025 Curtis Yee

Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a word from Emily Dickinson: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” As the co-creator of the runaway hit podcast “Normal Gossip,” McKinney […]

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Book Review: Hunted by FBI, Russian Oligarch; hedge fund manager flees into wilderness

February 8, 2025 Bruce DeSilva

Paul Brightman, a former hedge fund manager, has been keeping a low profile, changing his name to Grant Anderson and making a modest living as a boat builder in a small New Hampshire town. But […]

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Book Review: Kyle Paoletta’s ‘American Oasis’ offers lessons for hotter, drier world

January 25, 2025 Anita Snow

Albuquerque-born author Kyle Paoletta takes readers on a virtual road trip around his native region, transporting us across hundreds of years and thousands of miles in his new book “American Oasis: Finding the Future in […]

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Book Review: Private eye uncovers conspiracy in Robert Crais’ “The Big Empty”

January 18, 2025 Bruce Desilva

Traci Beller was 13 when her father — co-owner of a heating and air conditioning company — went out on some service calls and never returned home. The police, who found no trace of him, […]

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Kenitz’s debut novel transforms ‘The Perfect Home’ into a gut-roiling thriller

January 11, 2025 Donna Edwards

Dawn and Wyatt Decker are a reality TV couple renovating homes on-screen and dealing with fertility problems off-screen. Their story and marriage seem like a foregone conclusion, but only a few chapters in, a sharp […]

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Book Review: Pip Drysdale’s new Hollywood thriller ‘The Close-Up’ weighs legacy against love

January 4, 2025 Donna Edwards

Drawn by sheer possibility and that magic, golden-hour light of Los Angeles, Zoe Ann Weiss moves from London to California when she gets her two-book-deal break. It’s that Hollywood allure that also prompts her to […]

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Book Review: Online dating, love, death in Jane Pek’s new mystery, ‘The Rivals’

December 28, 2024 Kendal Weaver

Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark cybersphere of tech systems in “The Rivals,” the second novel in a new mystery series by Jane […]

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Book Review: Weike Wang’s ‘Rental House’ finds beauty, humor in marriage of opposites

December 21, 2024 Ann Levin

Vacation rental with the in-laws — for many, it’s a setup for disaster. In Weike Wang’s “Rental House,” it’s certainly that. It’s also an opportunity for Wang, a wildly gifted writer, to explore the upside […]

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Book Review: ‘Those Opulent Days’ is a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina

November 16, 2024 The Associated Press

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a […]

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‘Big Little Lies’ author has new novel out in September

January 29, 2021 The Associated Press

NEW YORK — The new novel from “Big Little Lies” author Liane Moriarty will be a story of family, tennis and a mysterious absence. Henry Holt announced Wednesday that Moriarty’s “Apples Never Fall” comes out […]

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