book review
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Book review: Poet Warrior — by Joy Harjo
(W. W. Norton & Company)In Joy Harjo’s second memoir, the poet, author, musician, playwright, and first Native American to serve as the U.S. poet laureate, reveals, in illuminating…
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Book review: The Guide — by Peter Heller
(Knopf Publishing Group)If you read “The River” by Peter Heller, you will have a good idea of just what kind of literary territory you are venturing into —…
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Book review: Damnation Spring — by Ash Davidson
(Scribner)Be prepared to fall hard, fast and deep for the people who inhabit this debut novel by Ash Davidson as they navigate changing livelihoods, a changing climate, and…
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Book review: Dark Waters — by Katherine Arden
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)In this hair-raising novel by Vermont author and Middlebury College alum, Brian, Ollie and Coco, still banded closely together for safety, make…
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Book review: Once There Were Wolves — by Charlotte McConaghy
(Flatiron Books)Inti Flynn, biologist — impulsive, idealistic yet deeply knowledgeable and passionate about reintroducing wolves as a way of rewilding environments and thus combating climate change — cannot…
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Book review: This Is Your Mind On Plants — by Michael Pollan
(Penguin Press)In his distinctive journalistic form, Michael Pollan, food writer and garden sage, takes a closer look at three plant “drugs” humans use to alter our consciousness: opium,…
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Book review: Mona at Sea — by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
(Santa Fe Writer’s Project)Mona — also known as Sad Millennial, infamous star of a viral video captured as her much-deserved job vanished before her eyes in the economic…
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Book review: The Startup Wife — by Tahmima Anam
(Scribner Book Company)Asha, daughter of Bengali immigrants, is a coder, and a brilliant coder at that. She is developing an algorithm that will attempt to endow AI, artificial…
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Book review: Fox and I: An uncommon friendship — by Catherine Raven
(Spiegel & Grau)For someone like Catherine Raven — natural history teacher, former national park ranger, and self-professed loner — consorting with a fox, or appearing to anthropomorphize a…
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Book review: Seven Days in June — by Tia Williams
(Grand Central Publishing)It would clearly give away too much, but imagine for a second if this book title was “Seven Steamy Days in June” and you would have…