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FICTION: A Jewish grandmother revisits her youth among Hollywood émigrés — including an interlude with Greta Garbo — during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Künstlers in Paradise" by Cathleen https://t.co/0rdFSwjAti

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NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead's “Harlem Shuffle,” Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' “The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois” and a debut story collection by Anthony Veasna So, a promising writer who died before his book was published, are among this year's… https://qctimes.com/news/national/whitehead-jeffers-among-book-critics-circle-nominees/article_3dd28c3a-23f2-59c9-9d5c-0584df001f6b.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_qctimes

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"The Handmaid's Tale" has never been burned, as far as author Margaret Atwood knows, but has often been subjected to bans or attempted bans. https://qctimes.com/entertainment/books/a-burn-proof-edition-of-the-handmaids-tale-is-up-for-auction/article_a4a1c6f5-5dc6-58ce-9a31-310657d39073.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_qctimes

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CHICAGO — Sandra Cisneros, at 66, firmly ensconced on Chicago’s literary Mount Rushmore, hasn’t lived in Chicago in ages. Not since she made a young, bold splash. If that doesn’t make you feel old, consider: “The House on Mango Street,”… https://qctimes.com/entertainment/books/mango-street-author-sandra-cisneros-has-long-left-chicago-though-chicago-won-t-leave-her/article_54b2268c-c127-5607-a6fb-a024e5a7203e.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=undefined_qctimes

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FICTION: A journey through Depression-era America in search of a missing woman and the truth about her mysterious past. "The Trackers" by Charles Frazier; Ecco (336 pages, $29.99) ——— If https://t.co/mYlpyDlRDZ

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FICTION: A deeply moving story about an astrobiologist and his young son, anguished by the state of the planet. "Bewilderment" by Richard Powers; W.W. Norton (288 pages, $27.95) ——— As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Overstory" — which… https://qctimes.com/entertainment/books/review-bewilderment-by-richard-powers/article_2caabcdb-ae0c-544c-bab9-19197d76f296.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=undefined_qctimes

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“Cloud Cuckoo Land,” by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) https://qctimes.com/entertainment/review-anthony-doerr-dreams-big-with-cloud-cuckoo-land/article_587d3c42-60bf-5c1f-885d-8f9a4498c191.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=undefined_qctimes

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Alone and out of touch on the Galapagos during the COVID-19 lockdown, a young woman reconsiders her life. "Wish You Were Here" by Jodi Picoult; Ballantine Books (338 pages, $28.99) ——— March 13, 2020. The first words of Jodi Picoult's… https://qctimes.com/entertainment/books/review-wish-you-were-here-by-jodi-picoult/article_60dad625-dad5-5b86-b905-a0338da6d9b9.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_qctimes

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Brit Bennett is intrigued by performance, and her bestselling 2020 novel “The Vanishing Half” features a masterful one at its center: Stella, a light-skinned Black woman, leaves her small Louisiana town in the 1950s to begin a new life in… https://t.co/z6DidmEedY

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Don't miss "Silver Alert" by Lee Smith; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (224 pages, $27) ——— "Silver Alert" is about end-of-life considerations — creeping dementia, terminal cancer, and anxious adult https://t.co/NaXTHHp0dA