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Books On Screen

November's Books on Screen roundup includes the films The Running Man, Train Dreams, Wicked: For Good, Hamnet, Karen Kingsbury's The Christmas Ring and Eric Jerome Dickey's Friends and Lovers; the series premieres of "Death by Lightning" on Netflix and "All Her Fault" on Peacock; the season premieres of Netflix's "Unicorn Academy" and Apple TV+'s "WondLa"; the season finales of "The Morning Show" on Apple TV+ and "Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order" on AMC; the continuation of CBS's "Tracker" and "Watson," HBO's "IT: Welcome to Derry" and Apple TV+'s "Down Cemetery Road"; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of The Long Walk, The Roses, Caught Stealing, Looking Through Water and Freakier Friday.

Reading Group Guides

The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

Heart the Lover by Lily King

The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O'Neill

Joyride: A Memoir by Susan Orlean

The Missing Pages by Alyson Richman

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy

The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers

Twice by Mitch Albom

Under the Stars by Beatriz Williams

The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller

Wreck by Catherine Newman

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