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| | Big screen or small screen, some of the most-talked-about film media lately seem to be adapted from books, and I love to see it. Of course there's the widely acclaimed drama based on Maggie O'Farrell's Shakespeare novel, Hamnet, which one critic for Vulture described as "the most emotionally shattering movie I've seen in years." Not to mention the smoldering hockey romance Heated Rivalry, developed from Rachel Reid's Game Changers series, which has cultivated an ardent viewership as eager for each new episode as they are for each new book. My favorite happens to be Guillermo del Toro's recent take on Frankenstein--all those lavish costumes and set pieces, the unsettling possibilities of weird science underscoring the folly of human hubris. I know it's a story that's probably been done to death already, but Mel Brooks, Andy Warhol, Wishbone: I love every version. (And I'm a sucker for Mia Goth.)
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 | | Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival | | | Trina Moyles |
| | | Trina Moyles's stunning second memoir traces her encounters with black bears in the Alberta boreal forest, alongside her complicated, loving bond with her older brother.
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| | Beth Is Dead | | | Katie Bernet |
| | | Katie Bernet's audacious and astonishingly successful debut novel reimagines Little Women as a metafictional YA murder mystery.
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| | Casanova 20: Or, Hot World | | | Davey Davis |
| | | This graceful, appealingly off-kilter novel tells the story of an impossibly beautiful 29-year-old and an older artist contending with a terminal illness.
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| | The Queen of Swords | | | Jazmina Barrera, trans. by Christina MacSweeney |
| | | Jazmina Barrera's genre-defying not-quite biography of immensely prolific Mexican writer Elena Garro gratifyingly resurrects an enigmatic icon for new generations.
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| | | | | | In her debut novel, Generator, a Swiss Korean journalist deftly explores identity through a mixed-race narrator re-creating the British father who abandoned her 40 years ago.
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| | | | Jennifer Niven's moving exploration of a fictional 1960s television family demonstrates how families can drift apart, and how they can reunite by celebrating each other as individuals.
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| | | | A 12-year-old girl and her best friend investigate a serial killer in 1979 Britain in this heartfelt, compelling debut novel.
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| | | | Mia P. Manansala concludes her Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series with a thoroughly satisfying sixth volume.
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| | | | In her debut romance novel, Megan Oliver takes readers on a whirlwind trip to Iceland with two former childhood sweethearts forced to reckon with their past and imagine their future.
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| | | | Soft is an entertaining and emotion-filled jaunt through humanity's deepest collective feelings.
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| | | | Amitav Ghosh's Wild Fictions is a vast and erudite collection of essays about climate change, migration, and colonialism.
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| | | | Dream scientist Michelle Carr offers a fascinating, easily digestible overview of why people dream, as well as strategies for mitigating nightmares and influencing dream content.
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| | | | A tiny detective team of body cells strives to solve a girl's stomach illness in this stimulating and fun younger middle-grade picture book race through the human body.
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| | | | Katrina Leno infuses New York City with the chthonic energy of the underworld in a distinctive YA Persephone retelling featuring inspiration from Louisa May Alcott.
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| | | | Through the Telescope is a radiant picture book tribute to Mae Jemison and the wonder and determination that defined her childhood.
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| | | | This cozy and candid YA romp features two queer love stories, a local hardware store that needs saving, a loathsome money-hungry mayor, and drag queen shenanigans.
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| | |  Few series for young readers are as beloved as "authorstrator" Ben Clanton's Narwhal and Jelly books. Clanton debuted the odd-couple duo in 2016 with a tale of friendship, comics, and waffles, and has entertained chapter-book readers ever since. In this interview for Shelf Awareness, Clanton chats about puns, the power of imagination and friendship, and 10 years of Narwhal and Jelly. (continued)
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| | | |  Sue Bender, whose bestselling book Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish (1989), became "one of the go-to texts of an anti-materialist movement of the 1990s known as voluntary simplicity," died on August 3, the New York Times reported, adding that her death was not widely reported at the time. She was 91.
In the 1980s, Bender's hectic life included working as a family therapist and a ceramist, along with being a wife and mother of two sons. In an art gallery, she... (continued)
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