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Fiction

Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club)

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Deacon King Kong (Oprah’s Book Club)

James McBride

5 THE GOVERNOR Thomas Elefante, the Elephant, heard about the Deems Clemens shooting an hour after it happened. He was working on his mother’s flower bed in his brownstone on Silver Street just three blocks from the Cause Houses, dreaming…Read more

Food & Cooking

A Southern Thanksgiving: Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast

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A Southern Thanksgiving: Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast

Robb Forman Dew

I have found that planning to serve Thanksgiving dinner about four o’clock or later makes the day much more relaxed for the cook. It is really more pleasant for the guests, too, because it is oddly depressing to be finished…Read more

Science & Tech

Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed

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Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed

Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.

At a little after nine central standard time on the night of Monday, April 13, 1970, there was, high in the western sky, a tiny flare of light that in some respects resembled a star exploding far away in…Read more

Romance

The Woman in the Lake

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The Woman in the Lake

Nicola Cornick

4 Fenella Present Day FEN CAUGHT THE last train from London Paddington to Hungerford. Swindon station would have been much closer, but there was a bus replacement service yet again for part of the journey and she did not relish…Read more

SF & Fantasy

A Heritage of Stars

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A Heritage of Stars

Clifford D. Simak

Dwight Cleveland Montrose was a lithe, lean man, his face a seasoned leather, the brownness of it set off by the snow-white hair, the bristling grayness of the mustache, the heavy eyebrows that were exclamation points above the bright eyes…Read more

Books & Ideas

Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany

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Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler’s Germany

James Wyllie

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES During the summer of 1930, the recently divorced Magda Quandt was looking for something to do. Her ex-husband had granted her a generous settlement: a spacious apartment in a fashionable part of Berlin, a healthy allowance and…Read more

Books & Ideas

Donovan's Devils: OSS Commandos Behind Enemy Lines-Europe, World War II

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Donovan’s Devils: OSS Commandos Behind Enemy Lines-Europe, World War II

Albert Lulushi

Special Operations in the Western Mediterranean In December 1942, the OSS consolidated all its assets in North Africa into a headquarters station in Algiers, known as Station X, under the command of Colonel William Eddy. It operated as an extension…Read more

Mysteries & Thrillers

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The Last Ride

Gregory Payette

I ONLY KNEW WHAT ANGELA Thompson looked like from a picture Bob Campbell had left with me when he said his good friend—Angela’s ex-husband—had been killed while out riding his bike. I met her at Barrington’s, a restaurant downtown for…Read more

Food & Cooking

Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook

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Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook

Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage, Tara…

We conclude this introductory section with a list of Flavor’s essential ingredients. By “essential,” we don’t suggest that you necessarily need to go out and buy them all before you start cooking, or that you just can’t do without them.…Read more

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