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New beginnings in ‘Life After Life’ bring innovative vitality to contemporary novel

By Arlice Davenport, The Wichita Eagle | April 14 at 7:48 a.m.

“Life After Life” by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books, 544 pages, $27.99)

Wichita native’s third novel, ‘Zero Separation,’ a high-flying thriller

April 14 at 7:47 a.m.

“Zero Separation” by Philip Donlay (Oceanview Publishing, 312 pages, $25.95)

Watermark Books best-sellers (April 14)

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‘Kite Runner’ author Khaled Hosseini to speak in Wichita

By Lori O’Toole Buselt, The Wichita Eagle | April 10 at 4:42 p.m.

International best-selling author Khaled Hosseini, who wrote “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” will speak June 12 at Wichita State University’s Hughes Metropolitan Complex.

New biographies examine the troubled psyche of Sylvia Plath on the 50th anniversary of her death

By Arlice Davenport, The Wichita Eagle | April 9 at 12:18 p.m.

“American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath” by Carl Rollyson (St. Martin’s Press, 319 pages, $29.99)

Kent Haruf’s latest High Plains novel finds beauty in everyday lives

By Lisa McLendon | April 7 at 8:15 a.m.

"Benediction" by Kent Haruf (Knopf, 258 pages, $25.95)

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April 7 at 8:10 a.m.

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‘Moscow 1937’ is a magisterial portrait of the year of the Soviet Union’s Great Terror

By Gaylord Dold | March 31 at 8:15 a.m.

“Moscow 1937” by Karl Schloegel, translated by Rodney Livingstone (Polity Press, 653 pages, $35)

Philosopher wants to make a home for the mind

By Arlice Davenport, The Wichita Eagle | April 1 at 2:53 a.m.

“Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False” by Thomas Nagel (University of Oxford Press, 144 pages, $24.95)

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Paging through new mysteries from across the Atlantic

By Carole E. Barrowman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | March 31 at 8:10 a.m.

I’ve spent a great deal of time in the past two weeks in bookstores across the U.K. In an Edinburgh bookstore, I picked up Peter May’s “The Blackhouse” (SilverOak, $24.95), the first in a trilogy set on the Isle of Lewis, “a brooding landscape” on the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. As I flipped through its pages, an elderly man standing near me said, “That’s better than butter.” I bought it immediately.

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Biography explores Jane Austen’s life from a fresh perspective

By Lisa McLendon | March 24 at 12:22 a.m.

“The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things” by Paula Byrne (Harper, 329 pages, $29.99)

Reissues of Waugh’s novels a welcome 175th anniversary gift

By Scott Eyman, New York Times News Service | March 24 at 12:21 a.m.

To celebrate their 175th anniversary, Little Brown has issued hardcover editions of the novels of Evelyn Waugh. They’re all welcome, especially “Brideshead Revisited,” the original voyage into the mysteries of class and paternity that animates so much English fiction, right up to and including “Downton Abbey.” (Waugh referred to the genre as “the cult of the English country house.”)

‘Tribes of Hattie’ chronicles 12 types of suffering

By Lois Carr | March 24 at 12:17 a.m.

“The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” by Ayana Mathis (Alfred A. Knopf, 243 pages, $24.95)

Christa Wolf’s final novel records her autobiographical journey to Los Angeles

By Arlice Davenport, The Wichita Eagle | March 17 at 7:25 a.m.

“City of Angels: Or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud” by Christa Wolf, translated by Damion Searls (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 336 pages, $27)

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