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June 2013 w w w. B o o k Pa g e . c o m
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J. Courtney Sullivan
08 Audio Month The Engagements traces the history of diamonds in America through four stories of love and marriage.
Becky Masterman on oral traditions and hearing her characters’ voices
16 Rick Atkinson The acclaimed Liberation Trilogy concludes with the Allied victory
18 Father’s Day Six books for dear ol’ Dad
Meet the author of Revenge Wears Prada
The Apprentices continues a magical Cold War tale
31 Bob Shea Meet the author-illustrator of Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great
columns Lifestyles The Author Enabler Well Read Whodunit Audio Romance Book Clubs cooking
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21 Fiction
26 NonFiction
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29 Maile Meloy
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reviews We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
20 Lauren Weisberger
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Big Brother by Lionel Shriver You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt The Son by Philipp Meyer TransAtlantic by Colum McCann The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani Sparta by Roxana Robinson We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani
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The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
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Bootstrapper by Mardi Jo Link The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown A Million Years With You by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas The Feud by Dean King Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
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30 CHILDREN’S top pick:
The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
also reviewed:
Twerp by Mark Goldblatt Every Day After by Laura Golden P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia Firecracker by David Iserson Winger by Andrew Smith
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