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Larry Tye, The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet. What is far less known about these groundbreakers is […]

Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

JCCNS 4 Community Rd., Marblehead, MA, United States

Winner of the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award for fiction, Kantika - "song" in Ladino - is a kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries and follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to […]

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