The Anniston Star Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“The Magic Kingdom” is a remarkably perceptive and heartbreaking tragedy played out against the American Dream of an earthly paradise, all seen through the eyes of Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  https://t.co/S1FUXVStNY

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“A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness: Stories” is the debut collection from Jai Chakrabarti. https://t.co/0Q7SpBQGT0

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Kevin Wilson has been able to pack so much into a novel as brief as “Now Is Not The Time To Panic” is truly astonishing. https://t.co/bpBWUfBBiw

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“Trust,” the new novel from Pulitzer-Prize finalist Hernan Diaz, wends its way through four different perspectives of the same events, often bewildering us as we try to sort out which might be the reliable narrative. https://www.annistonstar.com/features/entertainment/books/a-spellbinding-fable-of-a-wall-street-tycoon-and-his-wife/article_35cd30f2-eb55-11ec-a72f-539a61ecb5a9.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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Can “The Maltese Iguana” really be number 26 in Tim Dorsey’s wildly popular crime series, set in the Florida Keys? The books riotously center themselves on sporadic — though emphatically honorable — hitman Serge A. Storms setting his world to right. https://t.co/6qHSHytcNe

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“The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” is the insightful — sometimes ferociously honest — memoir of Academy Award-winning actor Paul Newman, begun with the help of screenwriter (“Rebel Without a Cause”) and close friend Stewart Stern. https://t.co/UnyiylRaj7

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“Sam,” the new novel by Allegra Goodman, is a beautiful, unaffected coming-of-age tale. It initially calls to mind Southern small-town classics by Carson McCullers, but it gradually proves to be so much more. https://t.co/McMTuGEkDH

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“True Biz” is the deeply personal new work from Sara Novic, a fictional rendering of an ongoing debate that still rages within what Novic terms “the deaf community.” https://www.annistonstar.com/features/entertainment/books/novel-spotlights-ongoing-debate-in-the-deaf-community/article_a1f43c3a-e5e7-11ec-a860-cbcc6615c63b.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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“Old Babes in the Wood: Stories” is the first fiction collection by Margaret Atwood since “Stone Mattress” was published in 2014. https://t.co/VanLT3LrxX

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“The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece” is the first novel from Tom Hanks. https://t.co/7MfGRQdeQh