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June 9, 2017
The 'Hamilton' Revolution Continues at the Audies
This content was originally published by on 9 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link The 22nd annual Audies Gala featured awards in 27 categories, with a behind-the-scenes audiobook look at Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit nabbing ‘Audiobook of the Year’ honors. Source link
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Lenin’s Return From Exile Put Russia on the Fast Track to Revolution
This content was originally published by JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN on 9 June 2017 | 3:00 pm. Source link Photo En route to Petrograd in a sealed railway car, April 1917. Credit Pyotr Vasilievich Vasiliev/DeAgostini, via Getty Images LENIN ON THE TRAIN By Catherine Merridale Illustrated. 354 pp. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. $30. Catherine Merridale is…
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Bookstore News: June 9, 2017
This content was originally published by on 9 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Books of Wonder expands; Providence to get a new indie; finalists for Australia’s booksellers of the year announced; and more. Source link
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10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About F. Scott Fitzgerald
This content was originally published by on 9 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Including: his last royalty check was for $13.13. Source link
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A Return to Middle-Earth, 44 Years After Tolkien’s Death
This content was originally published by GREGORY COWLES on 9 June 2017 | 3:45 pm. Source link Photo J.R.R. Tolkien RETURN OF THE KING: On the hardcover fiction list of late, the dead are looking lively. Last week Michael Crichton, who died in 2008, debuted at No. 2 with “Dragon Teeth,” a cowboys-and-fossils thriller currently…
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 12, 2017
This content was originally published by on 9 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link This week: new books from Roxane Gay, Teju Cole, and more. Source link
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The Man Behind Wonder Woman Was Inspired By Both Suffragists And Centerfolds : NPR
This content was originally published by on 9 June 2017 | 5:50 pm. Source link Hear The Original Interview Wonder Woman’s creator had a few secrets of his own. Historian Jill Lepore describes William Moulton Marstothe’s unusual life in The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Originally broadcast Oct. 27, 2014. Source link
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Paperback Row
This content was originally published by JOUMANA KHATIB on 8 June 2017 | 9:00 pm. Source link Six new paperbacks to check out this week. Source link
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This Week's Bestsellers: June 5, 2017
This content was originally published by on 2 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ author Kevin Kwan rounds out his trilogy with ‘Rich People Problems,’ debuting at #13 on our Hardcover Fiction list. Plus Cassandra Clare has the #3 book in the country with ‘Lord of Shadows,’ second in her Dark…
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June 8, 2017
Anthony Horowitz’s Whodunit Within the Whodunit
This content was originally published by ROSLYN SULCAS on 8 June 2017 | 9:29 pm. Source link The open, airy living room is filled with contemporary art and shelves of books. Mr. Horowitz proudly pointed out a secret room — a small shelf-lined space hidden behind a bookshelf, displaying automatons and other objects related to…
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