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Ahead of the release of both the paperback book and movie, take a look at the film actors side-by-side with the people who served as real-life inspiration for the tale.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025 -
This breezy, down-in-one-gulp of a novel—now out in paperback—follows a charismatic family on one of their annual Cape Cod vacations.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
31 July 2025
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Tony Visconti gave input on the remasters and contributes to the hardback book of unseen notes, drawings, and handwritten lyrics that accompanies the physical box sets.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
9 July 2025
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Best E-reader Amazon Kindle (2024) $110 at Amazon Nothing is more decadent for a beach day than a good book, but packing paperbacks or hardbacks just isn’t practical for me.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
28 May 2025
Noun
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The Experiment, paperbound, 2014).—
Jessica Wapner,
Scientific American,
16 Nov. 2020
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As the first nodes of the internet were being wired together, the Catalog became a paperbound search engine.—
Fred Turner,
Harper's magazine,
10 Jan. 2019
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The recipes in these medicinal tomes are pretty complex—one calls for goose and hart brains mixed with silver, myrrh, ginger powder, honey, and several other precious ingredients on top of a base of wax and olive oil.—
Mark Hay,
Popular Science,
13 Aug. 2025
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The tome, titled Michael Bolton, features more than 200 pages filled with both classic and never-before-seen shots of Bolton, 72, all taken by photographer and longtime friend Timothy White.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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“Softback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softback. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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