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A reader’s walking path: 5 books to inspire your next jaunt

Some books of note on walking, for escapes of the body and mind.

Remembering Kate Mattes, a maven of mysteries

Writers are notorious introverts, and reading is essentially a private experience. But Kate created a community, supporting and nurturing crime fiction authors as well as fans.

Augustine Sedgewick serves up a bitter brew in ‘Coffeeland’

For something that’s so ubiquitous in our lives, coffee is — for most people — a little murky in its origins. This new book provides a history lesson.

TaraShea Nesbit on reading history, poetry, and fairy tales during the pandemic

In her newest, “Beheld,” novelist TaraShea Nesbit looks back to the 1630s to re-imagine the story of the first murder trial in the Puritan colony of Plymouth Plantation.

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In Anne Tyler’s ‘Redhead by the Side of the Road,’ a quiet life, interrupted
There’s always a good reason to celebrate a new Anne Tyler novel, and her 23rd warrants popping open the champagne.

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With ‘Memory Eaters,’ author Elizabeth Kadetsky releases family secrets
Kadetsky wrote a series of essays on her mother's traumas and amnesias.

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LOCAL BESTSELLERS

Local bestsellers for the week ending March 29

Bestsellers based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.

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Remembering Tomie dePaola, whose award-winning children’s books provoked, comforted, and endured

When I heard Tomie dePaola had died this week, the news came as a shock to me. This was a different kind of death, not part of the daily numbers. I had to sit down and process it.

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Lighting a path, online book launches, new poetry

A single book is like a candle trying to light the night. A whole mass of books together though, brings the possibility of a mighty blaze.

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Tom Perrotta on ‘The Leftovers’ and how we behave in times of fear and loss

His 2011 book was about the aftermath of a world-changing loss when 2 percent of the planet’s human beings vanished inexplicably in one day.

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Hilary Mantel on re-reading

Hilary Mantel’s new novel, “The Mirror and the Light,” brings to a close her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. The novelist talked with the Globe about what she's reading (and re-reading) lately.

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Love and fury in West Texas

“Valentine” is an angry novel, a blast of feminist outrage against a toxic culture that breeds racism and violence against women as readily as the babies most of its female characters bore before they were old enough to vote.

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‘Too Much’ draws a direct line from Victorian to contemporary restraints on women

Author Rachel Vorona Cote takes a historic look at feminine excess.

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‘I Want You to Know We’re Still Here’ is a memoir of heartbreak and horror

There are heartbreaking moments in Esther Safran Foer’s “post-Holocaust memoir” about her obsessive quest to uncover the details of her immigrant parents’ Holocaust history. How could there not be?