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The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin, and the Death of Russian Democracy
Nemtsov was once Yeltsin likely successor and was shot within sight of the Kremlin in 2015. Fishman uses that career to trace how Russia turned.
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The Summer Book
A grandmother and granddaughter share a Finnish island, and neither of them mentions the death that put them there.
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The Sun Also Rises
Expatriates drift from Paris cafes to Pamplona bullrings, all of them wounded in ways nobody will name.
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The Sun Does Shine
Anthony Ray Hinton's memoir recounts thirty years he spent on Alabama's death row for a crime he did not commit.
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The Sun Sets in Singapore
Three high-achievers in expatriate Singapore, where success is measured exactly and its cost never mentioned.
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The Sunlit Man
A fugitive runs for his life on a planet where the sunrise itself will kill him, staying ahead of a dawn that never stops coming.
The Surrender Experiment
A decades-long experiment in saying yes to whatever life presented, instead of following personal preference, from the author of The Untethered Soul.
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The Sweaty Startup
The surest path to wealth isn't a flashy tech unicorn but an unglamorous, boring business nobody else wants to run.
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The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris's debut follows two freed brothers and a hidden pair of Confederate lovers in a Georgia town just after the Civil War.
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