July 2022 Reviews & Mentions

By Washington Independent Review of Books
By Washington Independent Review of Books

July 2022 Reviews & Mentions

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Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement

Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between...

Karin Chenoweth

$36.80
The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero

The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan,...

Peter S. Canellos

$21.99
$20.45
Why I Cannot Take a Lover

Why I Cannot Take a Lover

Grace Cavalieri

$17.95
Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter

Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter

E. B. Bartels

$27.99
$26.03
Greed in the Gilded Age: The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick

Greed in the Gilded Age: The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick

William Elliott Hazelgrove

$26.00
$24.18
Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms

Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of...

Lisa Brahin

$28.95
$26.92
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible...

Kate Moore

$27.99
$26.03
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well

The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being...

Julian Baggini

$19.95
$18.55
The Martins

The Martins

David Foenkinos

$17.95
$16.69
My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington

My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and...

George Stevens

$27.95
$25.99
Isles of Firm Ground

Isles of Firm Ground

Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez

$16.95
$15.76
And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges

And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges

Amber Sparks

$23.95
$22.27
The Precious Jules

The Precious Jules

Shawn Nocher

$28.99
$26.96
O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner

O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of the...

Mark Clague

$28.95
$26.92
Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and...

Adin Dobkin

$14.95
$13.90
Dream Girl

Dream Girl

Laura Lippman

$28.99
$26.96
The Crimson Thread

The Crimson Thread

Kate Forsyth

$27.99
$26.03
On Rotation

On Rotation

Shirlene Obuobi

$27.99
$26.03
Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

Polly Barton

$27.95
$25.99
Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

John Waters

$26.00
$24.18
This Place That Place

This Place That Place

Nandita Dinesh

$17.99
$16.73
Do Baby Elephants Suck Their Trunks?: Amazing Ways Animals Are Just Like Us

Do Baby Elephants Suck Their Trunks?: Amazing Ways Animals...

Ben Lerwill and Katharine McEwen

$17.99
$16.73
Saving the Butterfly: A Story about Refugees

Saving the Butterfly: A Story about Refugees

Helen Cooper and Gill Smith

$17.99
$16.73
Giant Island

Giant Island

Jane Yolen and Doug Keith

$18.95
$17.62
Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the...

Rick Emerson

$26.95
$25.06