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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 4,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
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    <pubDate>Apr/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 4,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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    <pubDate>Apr/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['I love cockroaches' says author and professor]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marlene Zuk would like people to think more about creatures we
usually avoid.

Zuk, an evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of
Minnesota, writes about rats and other urban visitors in her charming
“Outsider Animals.” ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4064127</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Julia Cooke shares a secret about writing 'Starry and Restless']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia Cooke is the author of the books “Come Fly the World: The
Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am” and “The Other Side of
Paradise: Life in the New Cuba.” 

Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Tin House,
Smithsonian, Condé ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4064081</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[George Takei's book chosen for 'West Coast's largest book club']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE — George Takei was 5 years old when he heard U.S. soldiers,
who carried rifles with bayonets, pounding on the door of his home in
Los Angeles.

In 1942, following the signing of Executive Order 9066, soldiers
instructed his parents to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4059989</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 28,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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    <pubDate>Apr/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 28,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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    <pubDate>Apr/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: Divorce rocks a '70s community in 'Lake Effect']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[An entire neighborhood full of people is racing to tell us about a
shocking divorce in “Lake Effect” and, in the dazzling final
sentences of the book, we finally understand who they are. All of
them.

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s bestselling ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4058883</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Five books we can't wait to read in April]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s good news and bad news on the Anthony Horowitz book
that’s hitting store and library shelves this spring.

The good news is that his annual satiric mystery is almost here. The
bad, for some fans, will be that it’s not the long-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4058621</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: Louise Erdrich's latest is 'Python's Kiss']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s better than a new tale from Minneapolis writer Louise Erdrich? How about 13 new tales?

“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of
which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere
(each is ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4058004</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[With 8 romcoms, a bakery and hot firemen, Abby Jimenez takes the cake]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s Abby Jimenez’s world and we’re just living in it.

Specifically, it’s the Abbyverse, which is what the romance
writer’s fans dub the fictional world in which all of her characters
exist, often recurring from book to book. Characters...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4057454</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Diamond Forde reveals the genesis of 'The Book of Alice']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diamond Forde is the award-winning author of “The Book of Alice.”
Her debut collection, “Mother Body,” won the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry
Prize, and her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, Boston Review,
Great River Review and elsewhere. 

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    <pubDate>Apr/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: Like 'The Secret History,' 'Lucien' is an unnerving campus tale]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[If a character is compared to Icarus early in a book, it’s not
going to go well for them.

Soon after Christopher, the main character and narrator of
“Lucien,” arrives at Harvard University, a fellow student sees one
of his paintings. It ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4053065</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 21,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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    <pubDate>Mar/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 21,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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    <pubDate>Mar/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brian Platzer, author of 'The Optimists,' reveals his novel's inspiration]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Platzer is a middle-school teacher and author of “The
Optimists,” among other books. 

He was the education columnist for The Atlantic, and his writing has
appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and New York Magazine.


Q. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4050562</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In 2013, Chicago Public Schools tried to ban a book. It didn't go well. A new graphic novel tells the tale]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — Thirteen years ago, at Lane Tech College Prep High School
on Addison Street, a school administrator approached an English teacher
and told her that he needed all of her copies of “Persepolis,” the
widely beloved, best-selling 2000 ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mar/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: Tayari Jones' follow-up to blockbuster 'American Marriage' is 'Kin']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a character refers to the dual narrators of “Kin” as “crib
sisters,” he’s immediately informed that the correct term is
“cradle,” not “crib.” There’s a reason for that distinction, I
think.

“Cradle” is the key word, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4046200</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Mar/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 14,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/booksnews/s-4045668</link>
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    <pubDate>Mar/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 14,
compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book
wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana
BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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    <pubDate>Mar/19/2026</pubDate>
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