Books in the Media – January 2020

Here is a sample of some of the books prominently featured in the media this week.

January 28:

Entertainment Weekly:

All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace

The Gimmicks by Chris McCormick

The Resisters by Gish Jen

NPR:

Processed Cheese by Stephen Wright

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A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

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Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

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People:

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins 

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

USA Today:

The Truants by Kate Weinberg

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The Washington Post:

The Missing American by Kwei Quartey

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Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino

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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War by Steve Inskeep

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Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

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Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War by Jonathan Rosenberg

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Authors of Air:

Fresh Air:

 by Fred Kaplan

 

January 21:

New York Times:

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins 

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A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

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What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron

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Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

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NPR:

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

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The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao

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Agency by William Gibson

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People:

Followers by Megan Angelo

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener

Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain

The Secret Guests by Benjamin Black

The Tenant by Katrine Engberg 

The Times:

Jack Reacher: Blue Moon by Lee Child

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The Washington Post:

Little Gods by Meng Jin

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The Fixers: The Bottom-Feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President by Joe Palazzolo and Michael Rothfeld

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Sidney Lumet: A Life by Maura Spiegel

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Authors on Air:

by Philip Rucker 

 

Fresh Air:

by Byran Stevenson

 

New York TImes:

by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn 

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January 14:

LA Times:

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener

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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor

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NPR:

Oligarchy by Scarlett Thomas

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Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia by Joshua Yaffa

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People:

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict:

The Prized Girl by Amy K. Green:

USA Today:

Little Gods by Meng Jin

Zed by Joanna Kavenna

The Washington Post:

God’s Hand on America: Divine Providence in the Modern Era by Michael Medved

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Zed by Joanna Kavenna

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Authors on Air:

CBS Sunday Morning:

by Sy Montgomery

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Fresh Air:

by David Zucchino

NPR:

by Anna Wiener

 

January 07:

Entertainment Weekly:

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

The Better Liar by Tanen Jones

NPR:

The Heap by Sean Adams

NYT:

Creatures by Crissy Van Meter

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala

USA Today:

House on Endless Waters by Emuna Elon

Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk

The Washington Post:

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

Author on Air:

PBS News Hour:

by Terese Marie Mailhot

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