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		<title>*** The Irish Goodbye by Beth Ann Fennelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 04:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs is a set of observations on the author&#8217;s life, some funny and others poignant, and many focused on close relationships with family members and friends. Her adventures range from the Czech Republic where she worked as &#8230; <a href="https://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/the-irish-goodbye-by-beth-ann-fennelly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>** Discipline by Larissa Pham</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 04:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The heroine of Discipline is a painter turned successful novelist whose book plot reimagined an exploitative relationship she had with one of her professors. The professor reaches out to her during the book tour and she chooses to go visit &#8230; <a href="https://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/discipline-by-larissa-pham/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>*** Evil Genius by Claire Oshetsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 04:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Evil Genius stars a gaslit young wife working for the phone company in 1974 San FranciscoAs it gradually dawns on her that she may need, and be able, to get away from her controlling husband, her coworkers and a nemesis &#8230; <a href="https://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/evil-genius-by-claire-oshetsky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>*** Bertie&#8217;s Theory of Ice Cream by Alexander McCall Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 04:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My favorite kid returns in Bertie&#8217;s Theory of Ice Cream (in the 44 Scotland series) and continues to maneuver around his nemesis, Olive, while dragooned into a wedding after he&#8217;s mistaken for a cousin. Quite funny that one. There is &#8230; <a href="https://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/berties-theory-of-ice-cream-by-alexander-mccall-smith/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>** The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 04:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Time centers around the highly unlikely premise that a shadowy UK government agency is gathering euphemistically-called expats from various periods in history to test time travel. If you are rolling your eyes (and I was), give it a &#8230; <a href="https://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/the-ministry-of-time-by-kaliane-bradley/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>*** A Far-Flung Life by M.L. Stedman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 04:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Far-Flung Life follows a family who manages an immense sheep station (ranch) in Western Australia. I learned reading the book that stations are not actually owned, only leased from the government.  After a series of tragedies the much diminished &#8230; <a href="https://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/a-far-flung-life-by-m-l-stedman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>** The Honey Bus by Meredith May</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees recounts the author&#8217;s childhood starting age five, when, after being brutally wrenched from her father and practically abandoned by her mentally-struggling mother, she found herself in &#8230; <a href="https://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/the-honey-bus-by-meredith-may/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>* The Final Problem by Arturo Perez-Reverte</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Final Problem is a clever mystery that takes place on a small Greek island where guests at a small hotel are stranded because of bad weather. A series of murders takes place and, improbably, an aging actor who played &#8230; <a href="https://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/the-final-problem-by-arturo-perez-reverte/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>*** The Monk by Tim Sullivan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Monk follows our fearless on-the-spectrum detective as he and his partner investigate the gruesome murder of a monk. Of course it will take fully unravelling the past of the monk to get to a solution, including a last-minute twist.]]></description>
		
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		<title>* It&#8217;s on You by Nick Chater &#038; George Loewenstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I found It&#8217;s on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We’re to Blame for Society&#8217;s Deepest Problems to be a bit of a struggle to read, as it&#8217;s written by two academics who, I&#8217;m sure, have &#8230; <a href="https://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/its-on-you-by-nick-chater-george-loewenstein/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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