#The best books of the week

#The best books of the week

“#The best books of the week” September 12, 2020 | 9:01am Thick as ThievesSandra Brown (fiction, Grand Central Publishing) Twenty years ago, the ultimate group heist went up in flames as one member landed in the hospital, one in jail, one was dead, and the other got away with it. Now the daughter of the…

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#The best books of the week

#The best books of the week

“#The best books of the week” September 5, 2020 | 10:22am The Forger’s DaughterBradford Morrow (fiction, Mysterious Press) Will is a reformed literary forger, having lived 20 years on the straight and narrow. But one night, a package is violently delivered to his country home — with a new demand. Through no choice of his…

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#The best books of the week

#The best books of the week

“#The best books of the week” August 22, 2020 | 9:57am Beyond ValorJon Erwin and William Doyle (non-fiction, Thomas Nelson) In April 1945, a fleet of American bombers flew toward Japan on a mission to bomb cities, military bases and factories. On one plane, a phosphorous bomb accidentally detonated. Staff Sgt. Henry E. “Red” Erwin…

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#The best books of the week

#The best books of the week

“#The best books of the week” August 8, 2020 | 9:55am Mexican GothicSilvia Moreno-Garcia (fiction, Del Rey) Noemí Taboada is enjoying life in Mexico City until, one day, a troubling letter from her newlywed cousin summons her to High Place, the house in the Mexican countryside where her cousin now lives. When Noemi arrives, she…

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#The best books of the week

#The best books of the week

“#The best books of the week” August 1, 2020 | 8:58am Destination WeddingDiksha Basu (fiction, Ballantine Books) Tina Das has traveled with her friend Marianne and her parents from NYC to New Delhi, where a close friend is having a gloriously over-the-top weeklong wedding celebration at Colebrookes, the city’s poshest country club. In between wedding…

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#The best books of the week

#The best books of the week

“#The best books of the week” July 25, 2020 | 8:15am Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Evolution (Jason Bourne Book #15)Brian Freeman (fiction, GP Putnam’s Sons) Jason Bourne is back, and he’s ready for some more action. When his lover is killed in a mass shooting, Jason has a hunch that Treadstone — the agency that…

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#The best books of the week

#The best books of the week

“#The best books of the week” July 18, 2020 | 8:48am The Lions of Fifth AvenueFiona Davis (fiction, Dutton) In 1913, Laura Lyons is married to the superintendent of the New York Public Library, a post that allows them to live within the great building. But when she applies to Columbia Journalism School, her world…

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#The best books of the week

#The best books of the week

“#The best books of the week” July 11, 2020 | 12:26pm Make Your Mess Your MemoirAnna David (memoir, Launch Pad Publishing) Anna David has made a career out of candid sharing and ’fessing up to the “messy” parts of her own life; in “Party Girl,” she wrote about her drug addiction and recovery. In her…

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#The best books of the week

“#The best books of the week” July 4, 2020 | 9:14am Florence Adler Swims ForeverRachel Beanland (fiction, Simon & Schuster) Atlantic City, 1934. Florence Adler has returned home after college and is spending the summer training to swim the English Channel while her sister, Fannie, is on bed rest for a risky pregnancy. Meanwhile, their…

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#The best books of the week

“#The best books of the week” June 27, 2020 | 10:46am RodhamCurtis Sittenfeld (fiction, Random House) What if Hillary had never married Bill? What if they had a serious relationship at Yale Law School and then went their separate ways? That’s the premise of this fascinating novel, which kicks off in 1971 and imagines a…

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