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October 8, 2024

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published October 8, 2024. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in October 2024.

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Dry Tortugas

by Kristen Rabe

Featuring two hundred magnificent photographs, Ian Wilson-Navarro’s "Dry Tortugas" reveals a marine sanctuary at the edge of the Florida Keys. Wilson-Navarro has a lifelong attachment to the seven remote islands and coral reefs of the... Read More

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Ixelles

by Eileen Gonzalez

Young lovers run up against the limits of their abilities to control their own destinies in Johannes Anyuru’s melancholy novel "Ixelles". Ruth should know a lie when she hears one: she lies for a living, helping brands and politicians... Read More

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Forbidden

by Erika Harlitz Kern

Scholar Jordan D. Rosenblum’s fascinating text "Forbidden" is a history of how the pig became the litmus test for Jewish identity. In accordance with biblical dietary laws, the pig is only one non-kosher animal out of many. Still, it... Read More

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Paradises Lost

by Michelle Anne Schingler

The first tome in an epic series set to cover the span of human history, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s riveting novel "Paradises Lost" introduces an immortal who’s grown weary of human foibles, but who still recognizes the wondrous... Read More

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Threads of Us

by Leah Block

A wounded woman is assisted in the search for the truth about her late father in the empathetic novel "Threads of Us". Christie Havey Smith weaves together four entwined perspectives in "Threads of Us", a novel about grieving a parent... Read More

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Not Yours to Keep

by Cierra Taylor

Two women are pulled together by their complicated relationships to motherhood in the tense but humane thriller "Not Yours to Keep". Fraught with heartache, Zelly Ruskin’s thriller "Not Yours to Keep" unfolds the pain of infertility.... Read More