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Noun
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And please keep that Another Country paperback in your tote bag.—
Olivier Lafontant,
Pitchfork,
6 Apr. 2026 -
The paperback copy is coming out on Tuesday.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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The trade and deluxe hardcover editions will then release simultaneously wherever books are sold on March 2, 2027.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Apr. 2026
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Tailored for collectors, the board game is packaged like a hardcover novel for easy storage, with a design inspired by the Empyrean novels’ unique book jackets.—
Kirsten Acuna,
PEOPLE,
31 Mar. 2026
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The bottom shelf bump-out adds only two inches but creates a shelf deep enough for hardbacks.—
Amy Panos,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Mar. 2026
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Shelves are stacked with hardback books and vases and walls adorned with sea life prints.—
Tim Chester,
Robb Report,
5 Mar. 2026
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After the lawsuit was filed, the jail changed its mail policy, and softcover books as well as periodicals published by the nonprofit were accepted into the jail.—
Vanessa Swales,
jsonline.com,
12 Dec. 2025
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The softcover reading guide highlights ten of the most vital works to the Mythos.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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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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In honor of our Queen of the Damned, a bizarre bazaar dedicated to all things dark, creepy and vampiric materializes at festival headquarters on Sunday April 12th, the exact date marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of our sacred tome, Interview With The Vampire.—
William Earl,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
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This January, many such tomes on my shelves suddenly seemed to have offered all along nothing more than obfuscation, the opposite of illumination.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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