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I return to Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s tenacious female characters and vivid Colorado landscapes that I loved so much in her first book Sabrina and Corina, and I leave with a reverence for the many layers of ancestry–the adversity they’ve overcome, the values they’ve imparted, the love for the land that they’ve sewn–the author shares with us.
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Katherine Blunt's new book looks at energy production and infrastructure in the US, showing us the human cost when it fails and looking at the challenges we must confront in an age of climate change.
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The pain and suffering caused by the opioid epidemic has been profound. Beth Macy does not keep any of it at arm’s length. Her empathy is deep, her feelings raw, her anger righteous, and her reportage in-depth and personal.
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Kathleen Hale’s comprehensive narrative of the Slenderman stabbing case is a cautionary tale for us all, illustrating how denying the existence of a problem doesn’t make it go away—it only shifts the burden of who must deal with it, often to vulnerable people without the full capacity to handle it.
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Nick Kostov and Sean McLain's excellently reported new book about Carlos Ghosn is a fascinating and fast-moving account of one of the auto industry's most successful executives, his alleged crimes, and his eventual escape from authorities.
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