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July 7, 2026

Breadtopia’s Magnificent Sourdough Recipes

All hail Melissa Johnson, the weekly recipe inventor for the website and store, Breadtopia. Sign up for their free weekly newsletter and once a week,...

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July 7, 2026

Ghalen: A Romance in Black by Walter Mosley *** (of 4)

Jamilah Fenestra is a working on her PhD and a medical student. She marries Robert Horton who is someplace on the spectrum, but probably the...

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June 24, 2026

Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen **** (of 4)

In 2007, as a 29-year-old journalist, Hansen won a fellowship to Turkey. Eight years later she published this combination memoir–reports from the Middle East–in depth...

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June 24, 2026

Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite *** (of 4)

Many generations back in rural Nigeria a woman was cursed for her infidelity. The curse doomed all of her female offspring to failure in their...

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June 8, 2026

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey *** (of 4)

Perveen Mistry lives in Bombay, India in the 1920s. She is the city’s first lawyer, but sexist, and racist hierarchies prevent her from entering a...

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June 8, 2026

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman *** (of 4)

Fifth in the series of investigations by the Thursday Murder Club, a group of four delightfully quirky senior citizens who investigate murders for funsies. This...

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May 22, 2026

Paradise by Adulrazak Gurnah *** (of 4)

In this fourth novel by Nobel Prize recipient Abdulrazak Gurnah, the author tells a coming of age story of Yusuf. It is in the first...

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May 22, 2026

Judgement at Tokyo by Gary Bass **** (of 4)

Not long after the start of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, while Douglas MacArthur was Supreme Commander over a conquered Japanese nation, defeated...

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May 20, 2026

Podcasting with Bake This Book

Full Episode can be found here.

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April 30, 2026

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford *** (of 4)

Genghis Khan gets a bad rap. His negatives have been mostly related by Medieval Europeans who were about as close-minded and backward as any society...

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