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Posted on January 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Dan Brown's first Robert Langdon series book since 2017 will come out September 9; The Secret of Secrets takes Langdon and his partner, Katherine Solomon, to Prague, where — of course — disaster strikes (Book Riot).
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Historian William E. Leuchtenburg, who wrote about American presidents across eight decades, died Tuesday at age 102; among his many books are Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 (considered his masterpiece) and Patriot Presidents: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams, which came out last summer (The New York Times).
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Deborah Eisenberg reviews an exhibition of writer Franz Kafka's postcards, letters, and manuscript pages that will be at New York City's Morgan Library and Museum until April 13 (New York Times Book Review).
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Learn about John J. Beckley, who became the nation's first Librarian of Congress on January 29, 1802 (HathiTrust).
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