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Margot Duahy's second book in this queer, cozy series is called Blessed Water, and it finds the 34-year-old Sister Holiday up to her neck in murky floodwaters and priest with secrets.

The Expat is an excellent debut spy novel by Hanson Shi. The main character is an alienated young man named Michael Wang ... Once Michael settles into life in Beijing, however, he realizes he's been tapped not as a prodigy, but a patsy.

In his new book, Goodman explores the business decisions that left the economy vulnerable to a disruption like this and the erosion of government regulation over critical transport industries that left their capacity to move freight weak and brittle.

His new book is How the World Ran Out of Everything Inside the Global Supply Chain.

His new book is How the World Ran Out of Everything Inside the Global Supply Chain.

We are speaking with Peter Goodman. He's the New York Times global economics correspondent. His new book is How the World Ran Out of Everything Inside the Global Supply Chain.

His new book is How the World Ran Out of Everything Inside the Global Supply Chain.

I mean, this verges into my last book, Davos Man, How the Billionaires Defouled the World.

helped bring one of Hansberry's lesserknown works The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window to Broadway.

the sign in Sidney Brustein's window

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His new book is How the World Ran Out of Everything.

At the time of our conversation, Harris had helped bring one of Hansberry's lesserknown works The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window to Broadway.

get 1,500 people more a week to go home and tell everyone they know about a little play called The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window.

I read Young, Gifted, and Black.

His new book is How the World Ran Out of Everything.

Katherine Newman's new novel is called Sandwich and the title also winks at the situation of our main character, Rachel, nicknamed Rocky, who's halfway in age between her young adult children and her elderly parents, all of whom crowd into that cottage.

In the opening scene of Sandwich, Rocky's husband, Nicky, stands paralyzed, plunger in hand before the cottage's single overflowing old toilet, and as the vacation week progresses other things also slosh and overflow, revealing messy emotions like anger and shame.

She segues from Nora Ephronstyle comic passages to elegy, using metaphors like a slow leak to describe menopause and the body's changes, and later likens family life to a seesaw balanced deadcenter.

Sandwich is my idea of the perfect summer novel, shimmering and substantive, with a storyline about abortion that she handles in a way I've never encountered in fiction before.

In the original audiobook, The Art of Small Talk, actresses and comedians Casey Wilson and Jessica St. Clair share six simple rules for how to engage in small talk. Available on Audible, Spotify or wherever you get your audiobooks.

His biography called SATCHEL, The Life and Times of an American Legend was first released.

Larry Tye recorded in 2009 when his book SATCHEL, The Life and Times of an American Legend was first published.

Larry Tye recorded in 2009 speaking about his book SATCHEL, the life and times of an American legend.

Tye's latest book is The Jasmine, How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.

My guest, Amir Questlove Thompson, is always involved in multiple projects... Today's occasion is the publication of his new book, Hip Hop is History.

His new book is called Hip Hop is History.

Thank you again and congratulations on your new book.

Questlove's new book is called Hip Hop is History.

Questlove is also the author of several books, including Music is History and Soul Train, the Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation.

publishers of Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket's memoir, And Then, And Then, What Else?

In her new memoir, Consent, writer Jill Cement revisits a turning point of her early life and has some second thoughts.

Cement draws us readers into the process of mulling over these tough questions in this arresting memoir.

Cement wrote an earlier memoir called Half-a-Life that covered much of the same sexual and romantic terrain.

Cement returns to her first memoir, Half a Life, which she says is as close as she has to a transcript.

most recently in the incisive 2019 novel The Body in Question.