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A Complete Fiction

by R.L. Maizes

Strike up the band: there's a new R.L. Maizes (We Love Anderson Cooper; Other People's Pets) book, and it's breakout-novel time--or at least it should be. As a funny-pitiless look at the lengths writers will go to get published, A Complete Fiction deserves shelf space alongside Percival Everett's Erasure and Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot.

P.J. Larkin is a Denver-based writer who drives for a ride-share company to pay the bills. She has three unpublished novels to show for herself; regarding her third unsold

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The Tree That Was a World

by Yorick Goldewijk, trans. by Laura Watkinson, illus. by Jeska Verstegen

A varied cast of eccentric animal characters inhabits The Tree That Was a World, a hilariously irreverent and enchantingly strange book of short stories by Dutch author Yorick Goldewijk, translated into English by Laura Watkinson (Movies Showing Nowhere), and illustrated by Jeska Verstegen (I'll Keep You Close).

A tree "as old as the world" and "as big as the world" grows in a fog-swept forest, its branches filled with the secret lives and stories of a hidden community of creatures. A sloth sneaks out of the

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The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature's Clues

by Tristan Gooley

British naturalist Tristan Gooley, known as the "Natural Navigator," takes readers on a fascinating journey of interpreting natural signs in his engaging, informative 10th book, The Hidden Seasons. Focusing on each month in turn, Gooley (How to Read a Tree; The Nature Instinct) highlights small but significant phenomena of flora, fauna, weather, and sky to help readers connect more deeply to, and understand the trends of, the shifting seasons in the temperate northern hemisphere.

"Our job is to decipher the

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No Hand Held Mine

by Kim Soom, trans. by Doo-Sun Ryu, Joon-Li Kim

No Hand Held Mine by Kim Soom, who's won every major Korean literary award, offers two extraordinary novellas, Granny Wild Goose and The Root's Tale, jointly translated by Joon-Li Kim and Doo-Sun Ryu.

Granny Wild Goose is a breathtaking homage to Gil Won-Ok (1928-2025), one of the last surviving comfort women when Kim interviewed her before the novella's original 2018 publication. By then, the nonagenarian's memory was in decline; Kim hauntingly mimics those gaps by writing in elliptical verse, creating white

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A Guardian and a Thief

by Megha Majumdar

The thrilling events of Megha Majumdar's novel A Guardian and a Thief take place over one week in a near-future Kolkata, India, where catastrophic consequences of climate change have caused flooding, food scarcity, and desperation.

Ma, her two-year-old daughter, Mishti, and elderly father, Dadu, are trying to flee the crumbling city and reunite with her husband in the U.S. "It was [Ma's] duty, as a guardian, to put into action the beautiful ideal of hope." Though their long-awaited immigration documents are

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Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

by Megan Clendenan, illus. by Brittany Cicchese

Debut picture book author Megan Clendenan (Design Like Nature) and illustrator Brittany Cicchese (No More Señora Mimí) skillfully combine their talents in the accessible, atmospheric picture book collaboration Just in Case.

Eight hundred miles from the North Pole, on a Norwegian island, in a frozen mountain is a global bank that holds only one kind of currency: seeds. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a repository that stores duplicates of every seed housed in every single one of the "1,700 seed

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

CBS Mornings: Nate Berkus, author of Foundations: Timeless Design That Feels Personal (S&S/Simon Element, $45, 9781668026137).

Also on CBS Mornings: Alison Roman, author of Something from Nothing: A Cookbook (Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411).

Good Morning America: Samin Nosrat, author of Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love (Random House, $45, 9781984857781).

Today: Dick Van Dyke, author of 100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist's Guide to a Happy Life (Grand Central, $29, 9781538777909).

Kelly Clarkson Show: R.J. Halbert (Jason and Rhonda Halbert), author of Servant: The Goodpasture Chronicles, Book 2 (Novus Press Works, $24.99, 9781963366099).

Monday, November 17, 2025

CBS Mornings: Rachel Renée Russell, author of Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life (Aladdin, $15.99, 9781665988384).

Today: Walter Isaacson, author of The Greatest Sentence Ever Written (Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314).

Fresh Air: Cynthia Erivo, author of Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much (Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250428325).

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

CBS Mornings: Sen. John Fetterman, author of Unfettered (Crown, $32, 9780593799826).

The View: Rob Riggle, author of Grit, Spit, and Never Quit: A Marine's Guide to Comedy and Life (Grand Central, $30, 9781538769546).

Drew Barrymore Show: Alison Roman, author of Something from Nothing: A Cookbook (Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411).

Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Jonathan Karl, author of Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America (Dutton, $32, 9798217047000).

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

CBS Mornings: Rob Riggle, author of Grit, Spit, and Never Quit: A Marine's Guide to Comedy and Life (Grand Central, $30, 9781538769546).

All Things Considered: Justinian Huang, author of Lucky Seed: A Novel (MIRA, $30, 9780778387862).

Fresh Air: Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters (North Point Press, $36, 9780374608699).

Monday, November 10, 2025

Good Morning America: Alison Roman, author of Something from Nothing: A Cookbook (Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411).

Kelly Clarkson Show: E. Lockhart, author of We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel (Delacorte Press, $22.99, 9780593899168).

Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Ken Burns, co-author of The American Revolution: An Intimate History (Knopf, $80, 9780525658672).
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