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A Mastermind Meets His Match

Diane Vitullo learned a great deal from her uncle Trevor Hawthorne. He taught her to recognize deception and anticipate an opponent’s next move. Those lessons have served her well as an NSA agent. They become considerably harder to apply when the person she needs to outwit is Trevor himself, especially…
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October 2, 2026
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An Alien Promises to Save Earth. A Scientist Has Reason to Doubt.

In Marlen Suyapa Bodden’s In Defense of Earth, the prospect of planetary destruction begins with a family trying to survive the storm of the century. By the time an extraterrestrial android offers to rescue humanity from climate catastrophe, Elaine Johnson-Coleman’s world has already been shattered. Seventeen-year-old Elaine is a competitive…
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October 6, 2026
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5 Novels Where Family History Becomes American History

The story of America is also the story of families and of what one generation inherits from the last and what it chooses to carry forward. These five novels span decades, and sometimes centuries, using intimate family histories to explore race, identity, migration, community and belonging. From Chicago’s Cabrini-Green to…
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October 5, 2026
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Rural Books by Canadian Writers

Canada is a vast country in terms of land mass, with its population spread out across millions of kilometres from coast to coast to coast, though it’s no secret that the majority of this population lives in cities and communities close to the border where it isn’t so remote, rugged,…
Michael Schmidt
October 2, 2026
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10 Books to Rev up Your Book Club

When I say I’m a lover of book clubs, I’m not kidding. I belong to six of them. That’s right, six. Each is different in terms of frequency and focus, but they all have one thing in common: our most riveting conversations come from books that aren’t necessarily everybody’s favorites.…
Laura Anne Bird
October 1, 2026
Fiction

Who Keeps the Record

Folklore has been relegated to entertainment in many ways, but I want us to remember the power of a folk story. A mother in a dark room, tucking her child into bed at night, giving them a cautious warning to not get out of bed for the creature in the…
Cynthia Pelayo
September 29, 2026