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  1. 'Drawn Testimony' is a courtroom sketch artist's memoir spanning 40 years

    Published: 8/21/2024
  2. Rufaro Faith Mazarura's 'Let the Games Begin' is a rom-com set in the Olympic village

    Published: 8/20/2024
  3. 'We Were Illegal' examines Texas history through multiple generations of one family

    Published: 8/19/2024
  4. Two books revisit the cultural impacts of Tina Turner, Duke Ellington and more

    Published: 8/16/2024
  5. Sheetal Sheth pens a children's book about Raksha Bandhan in 'Raashi's Rakhis'

    Published: 8/15/2024
  6. In 'Bringing Ben Home,' Barbara Bradley Hagerty examines a wrongful conviction

    Published: 8/14/2024
  7. In 'Five-Star Stranger,' a man gets hired on an app to pretend to be a girl's father

    Published: 8/13/2024
  8. In 'Midnight in Moscow,' a U.S. ambassador recounts his time in Russia

    Published: 8/12/2024
  9. Nancy Pelosi opens up about how she wields 'The Art of Power'

    Published: 8/9/2024
  10. M.T. Anderson's 'Nicked' follows a heist to steal the bones of Saint Nicholas

    Published: 8/8/2024
  11. Juli Min's novel 'Shanghailanders' unfolds in reverse

    Published: 8/7/2024
  12. Cory Richards' memoir covers mountains, photography and mental health

    Published: 8/6/2024
  13. Sarah Perry's 'Enlightenment' ponders faith, astronomy and friendship

    Published: 8/5/2024
  14. Novels by Claire Lombardo and Catherine Newman explore different stages of motherhood

    Published: 8/2/2024
  15. 'The Boiling Moat' plants a military strategy to prevent China's capture of Taiwan

    Published: 8/1/2024
  16. Jon M. Chu's memoir 'Viewfinder' traces his journey to making movies

    Published: 7/31/2024
  17. In 'Liars,' Sarah Manguso explores a marriage falling apart

    Published: 7/30/2024
  18. Stephen Graham Jones explores a new side of horror in 'I Was a Teenage Slasher'

    Published: 7/29/2024
  19. Riley Sager and Johanna Copeland set thrillers in suburbia

    Published: 7/26/2024
  20. Khushbu Shah's cookbook 'Amrikan' honors the Indian American diaspora

    Published: 7/25/2024

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