In ‘Moonflower Murders,’ clues to solving the brutal murder of a wedding guest may lie within the murder mystery novel within the murder mystery novel.
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Bedside Table: Can connection help us to overcome climate change?
‘All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis’ weaves together poetry, essay and activism – and offers hope.
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A modest rebel
The paradoxical personality of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Even more interesting than the occult text at the heart of Elizabeth Hand’s latest Cass Neary novel?
The indelible character of the self-destructive Cass Neary herself.
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What does a gardener need for winter? A good book about gardening, of course
Read on for tidbits from and summaries of several gardening books published in 2020.
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Trump books will keep coming after Trump leaves office
It’s been one of publishing’s most thriving genres of the past four years.
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When a loving Maine farm family encounters tragedy, it proves their undoing
In quiet, stirring prose, ‘Beneficience’ ponders existential questions of goodness and love.
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Bedside Table: Book calls for an end to ‘generational feminism’
The issues of older women are as important as those of younger ones, especially in a #MeToo time, according to this book pick from reader Joan Souza.
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If you’re thinking of a drastic lifestyle change, ‘Off Grid Life’ will feed your fantasy …
or kill it. This book is a great place to spark – or park – your dreams.
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A dark tale of strong women, barbarous circumstances – and hope
Set in 19th-century Australia, ‘The Exiles’ intertwines the fates of Englishwomen unfairly convicted and banished with that of a real-life Aboriginal girl.