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Sydney Lea Author Of Now Look

From Sydney's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Sydney Lea Why Sydney loves this book

Ms. Egan's capacity to include eloquent and unexpected details (how did she learn so much about deep sea diving, say?) to a complex, mesmerizing, and yet entirely accessible story line made this great book stand out for me.

By Jennifer Egan ,

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4 authors picked Manhattan Beach as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book

Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author.

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, and Time

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men.…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Sydney Lea Author Of Now Look

From Sydney's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Sydney's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Sydney Lea Why Sydney loves this book

Tyler Mahan Coe, son of country musician David Alan Coe, has a regular podcast by the same name. This volume is purportedly a history of the relationship, musical and otherwise, of the greatest country duet ever, Tammy Wynette and George Jones. But although Coe does trace that relation, along the way he offers acute and usually very surprising cultural commentary. Who knew, say, that pinball machines and country music, say, were interlinked early on? Who knew that Waylon Jennings was actually addicted to pinball?

By Tyler Mahan Coe , Wayne White (illustrator) ,

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1 author picked Cocaine and Rhinestones as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music's legendary royal couple-George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After taking honky-tonk rockers like "White Lightning" all the way up the country charts, he revealed himself to be an unmatched virtuoso on "She Thinks I Still Care," thus cementing his status as a living legend. That's where the trouble started. Only at this new level of fame did…


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