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Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 27, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2023, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Identity. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s 2. Happy Place. Emily Henry. ...
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 27, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2023, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Identity: A Novel" by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s) Last week: — 2. ...
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 27, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2023, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Identity: A Novel" by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s) Last week: — 2. ...
FICTION: Emma Törzs' "Ink Blood Sister Scribe" is "enthralling." "Ink Blood Sister Scribe" by Emma Törzs; William Morrow (416 pages, $30) ——— If Olivie Blake's "The Atlas Six" seduced you with its library of ancient secrets, if you swooned over Deborah Harkness' enchanted manuscript in "A Discovery of Witches," then let me introduce you to Minnesota author Emma Törzs' "Ink Blood Sister ...
Well, yes, you could go do outdoorsy things this summer. Or you could read. Here are six new books that are good summer reads. Wishing you a season full of good books! "The Guest" By Emma Cline (Random House, $28) Emma Cline's previous novel, "The Girls," followed a young woman in the throes of a cult led by a Charles Manson-like figure; her latest, "The Guest," focuses on another young woman, ...
FICTION: Luis Alberto Urrea's captivating novel dives into adventures of female volunteers in World War II. "Good Night, Irene" by Luis Alberto Urrea; Little, Brown (416 pages, $29) ——— In the musical "Hamilton," George Washington croons to aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton, "History has its eyes on you." But do the Founding Father's words apply to kitchen staff, grunts in trenches and ...
FICTION: In Ore Agbaje-Williams' bitterly funny novel, a friend disrupts a volatile marriage. "The Three of Us" by Ore Agbaje-Williams; G.P. Putnam's Sons (192 pages, $26) ——— As a teenager, few works hit me like Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The mind games and layers of anger, grief and love that glued husbands and wives together offered a revelatory window into ...
Earlier this year, legendary costumer Ruth E. Carter made history as the first Black woman to take home two Academy Awards. Her win for 2018's "Black Panther" was the first in costuming for a Black person and the first Oscar for Marvel Studios. Her second, for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," marked another record: the first repeat in the category for an original film and its sequel. Safely ...
Review: When two moms drove their six kids off a cliff, this writer investigated what led them there
Don't Miss "We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death and Child Removal in America" by Roxanna Asgarian; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (297 pages, $28) ——— Roxanna Asgarian's shattering book is classified as "true crime" but it's less about solving murders — South Dakota natives Jennifer and Sarah Hart drove their car, with their six drugged children in back, off a California cliff — than ...
Books in brief "Master Slave Husband Wife" by Ilyon Woo; Simon & Schuster (416 pages, $29.99) ——— If anything, Ilyon Woo's subtitle, "An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom," undersells her spellbinding book of nonfiction. It's the story of Ellen and William Craft, an enslaved couple who fled a Georgia plantation in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen (her father was her owner) disguised as a ...
NONFICTION: Tracing the events that culminated in a 60-year-old murder. "Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night" by Lisa Belkin; W.W. Norton (402 pages, $29.95) ——— A doctor, a convict and a cop. Even though a bar will play a role, and two of those men will walk into it, this is no setup for a joke. Instead, the three mark the convergence of very different ...
CHICAGO — In the first nine days that Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was on tour this month for his novel, “Chain-Gang All-Stars,” 23 mass shootings occurred in this country. More than 30 people were killed. Many more were injured. That’s according to the Gun Violence Archive, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that defines mass shootings as four or more killed or wounded. (They take their cue from the ...
Review: Uncovering the demons that drove legendary correspondent Ernie Pyle in 'The Soldier's Truth'
NONFICTION: A biography of perhaps the most famous war correspondent of all time. "The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II" by David Chrisinger; Penguin Press (400 pages, $30) ——— My father lived through World War II and, like many of his generation, said very little about it. But one name he spoke with reverence was that of journalist Ernie Pyle. A slight, driven man ...
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is in custody at a federal women’s prison camp in Bryan where she will spend the next 11 years serving he…
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is in custody at the Texas prison where she will spend the next 11 years serving her sentence for overseeing an infamous blood-testing hoax. Holmes could be seen Tuesday from outside the prison’s gates walking into the a federal women’s prison camp located in Bryan, Texas. She wore jeans, a brown sweater and was smiling as she spoke with two prison employees accompanying her. Her arrival comes more than a year after a jury convicted Holmes on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022. She was sentenced to prison time in November.