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Aug 16, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich |Helena de Bres |Elena Kosteiiuchenko
Sean Nam. Rushcutters Bay, $22.99 trade paper (332p) ISBN 979-8-218-13729-8Journalist Nam delivers a knockout debut that shines a light on the underbelly of the boxing industry in 1970s Philadelphia. In 1976, 23-year-old Tyrone “the Butterfly” Everett was a rising star in the ring. His reputation suffered, however, when he lost the WBC super featherweight crown in a shocking upset that some reporters and boxing insiders attributed to a ref who was paid off by the Mafia.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Peter Englund |Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich |Helena de Bres
Peter Englund, trans. from the Swedish by Peter Graves. Knopf, $32 (496p) ISBN 978-1-524-73331-5Swedish historian Englund takes a captivating firsthand look at a pivotal month of WWII by drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of 39 people who lived through it—the same approach he utilized in The Beauty and the Sorrow, his 2012 study of WWI.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Steve Inskeep |Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich |Helena de Bres
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided AmericaAbraham Lincoln’s ambidextrous political acumen is the focus of journalist and public radio personality Inskeep (Imperfect Union) in this eclectic assortment of encounters Lincoln had with those who quarrelled with him. Spotlighting 16 diverse people and their disagreements with Lincoln, Inskeep reveals how the president “learned, adapted, and sought advantage” through these interactions.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Scott Eyman |Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich |Helena de Bres
Scott Eyman. Simon & Schuster, $29.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-982176-35-8Biographer Eyman (20th Century Fox) presents a riveting account of the events that led the U.S. government in 1952 to banish Charlie Chaplin, a Brit by birth who had lived in America for decades after first arriving as a teenager.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Anne Case |Angus Deaton |Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich
Angus Deaton. Princeton Univ, $24.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-691-24762-5Nobel Prize–winning British economist Deaton (The Great Escape) lambastes American economic injustice in these feisty missives.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Gavin Edwards |Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich |Helena de Bres
Trial By Content podcasters Robinson and Gonzales team up with journalist Edwards (The Tao of Bill Murray) to deliver a superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood.
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Aug 7, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich |Helena de Bres |Elena Kosteiiuchenko
Taylor Lorenz. Simon & Schuster, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-982146-86-3This astute debut from Lorenz, a Washington Post technology columnist, traces the tumultuous history of social media from the early 2000s to the present. She describes how such platforms as Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter evolved from the humblest of beginnings, noting that YouTube launched as a dating site in 2005 before broadening its focus.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich |Helena de Bres |Elena Kosteiiuchenko
Kenneth Miller. Hachette, $32.50 (400p) ISBN 978-0-306-92495-8Journalist Miller’s eye-opening debut explores the lives and work of four researchers who pioneered the scientific understanding of sleep. He begins with Nathaniel Kleitman, the “patriarch” of sleep science, who fled Russian pogroms and landed in the U.S. in 1916 at age 20.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sarah Cooper |Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich |Helena de Bres
This witty memoir-in-essays from comedian Cooper (How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings) traces her trajectory from bookish child of Jamaican immigrants to social media superstar. Cooper, who rose to fame in 2020 by lip-syncing to then-president Donald Trump’s statements about Covid-19 (“I see the disinfectant knocks it out in a minute”), begins by recounting her youth in Rockville, Md., as the youngest of four children.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Carlo Rovelli |Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich |Helena de Bres
Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Simon Carnell. Riverhead, $26 (176p) ISBN 978-0-593-54544-7This mind-bending outing by physicist Rovelli (Anaximander) explores the possibility of the existence of white holes, the hypothesized inverse of black holes.
