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Finally a lazy

Monday

Finally a lazy Monday

Laying on the beach

Craving the sounds of summer

I tune it

Twins & Sox

Delayed

Daunte Wright

Another senseless loss in a sea of hate and authority

I cannot begin

My privilege, my past time

Baseball can wait

Borderland resident Dante Pensa is a lover of history, human stories and pluralism.

Send poems (40-line limit) to poetry editor Jim LaVilla-Havelin, San Antonio Express-News, P.O. Box 2171, San Antonio, TX 78297.

Fiction

1. Sooley

by John Grisham. Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.

2. The Last Thing He Told Me

by Laura Dave. Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.

3. Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir. Ryland Grace awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders.

4. While Justice Sleeps

by Stacey Abrams. When Justice Wynn slips into a coma, his law clerk, Avery Keene, must unravel clues of a controversial case.

5. 21st Birthday

by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. The 21st book in the Women’s Murder Club series. New evidence changes the case of a missing mother.

Nonfiction

1. The Anthropocene Reviewed

by John Green. Personal essays that review different facets of the humancentered planet.

2. Zero Fail

by Carol Leonnig. The Pulitzer Prize winner brings to light the secrets, scandals and shortcomings of

the Secret Service.

3. Killing the Mob

by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The 10th book in the conservative commentator’s Killing series looks at organized crime in the United States during the 20th century.

4. What Happened to You?

by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.

5. Noise

by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein. What might cause variability in judgments that should be identical and potential ways to remedy this.