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Caught on the Cover: RT Awards Edition

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Recently several celebrities were “caught on the cover,” their likenesses spotted on some covers of books nominated for 2014 RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards. Check out …

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WORD FOR WORD

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Memories of life behind the Iron Curtain. In 1997, Lungina (1920-1998), a literary translator, spent a week with director Oleg Dorman, recounting her life for…

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MISSING REELS

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Rumors of a lost silent film send a quirky heroine and her bemused boyfriend on a delightful escapade. It may be tough to make ends…

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DEMIGODS ON SPEEDWAY

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A collection of interrelated stories, set in Arizona, that aspires to a mythic resonance.Sheehan (Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories, 2013, etc.) sets her…

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FAMILY FURNISHINGS

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Top-shelf collection by Canadian Nobelist Munro, perhaps the best writer of short stories in English today.Certainly few, if any, narrators are less trustworthy…

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MELT

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In Castrovilla’s (Revolutionary Friends, 2013, etc.) YA novel, a teenager finds an existential crisis in a doughnut shop—and a love like no other.When straight…

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ALL MY PUNY SORROWS

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A Canadian writer visits her older sister, a concert pianist who’s just attempted suicide, in this masterful, original investigation into love, loss and survival. “She…

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OLYMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

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Olympian shamus Plato Jones faces his toughest assignment yet: breaking out of prison. Puckish Plato, who narrates in an arch first-person, begins his descent…