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“A Screaming Life” isn’t a massive tome, but it still manages to dive deep when it matters, and also when you least expect it to.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026
Ferrer won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in history for “Cuba: An American History,” a tome spanning more than five centuries of entanglement between the island and the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
It’s a peculiarly hefty tome if you buy Sellers’s own oft-repeated claim that he had no personality of his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
But what I found when I dug into the nearly 500-page tome is that we never should have listened to Attia in the first place.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2026
With its iron bindings, the tome weighed seventy-five pounds.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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One gets the sense that, were you to crack open one of the tomes, a mystery would come falling out from between its pages.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Kyiv's Pochaina second-hand book market was also struck, wiping out hundreds of individual stalls and countless treasured tomes.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Berkshire proxy is readable and runs less than 20 pages and compares with the 100-plus page tomes that most big companies issue.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
Using a modified version of Francis Bacon’s system, Jefferson sorted his tomes into the categories of Memory, Reason and Imagination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
It had a huge range, everything from serious academic tomes to a “Sky King Spy Detecto Writer,” found in a box of breakfast cereal.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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