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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
A few weeks before the tome hit shelves, Latifi didn’t think enough people were paying attention to that news.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Gorgeously produced with a cornucopia of photos and movie stills, this tome clocks in at 501 pages and answers almost every question you ever had about the legendary filmmaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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
It’s a weighty tome, in more ways than one.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
Splitting franchise films into two parts made sense for young adult books like “Harry Potter,” “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games,” given that each series boasted thicker tomes with each subsequent release.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
He plowed through graphic-design books and tomes of logos featuring obscure examples like Hungarian oil companies from the ’80s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
"I looked at each individual part, comparing its appearance to old tomes where scholars drew out the jellyfish anatomy by hand. A real challenge when you look at just how many tangled parts it has."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2025
Pater Aquillus is a jurist, and his library is filled with everything from obscure law books to ancient Scholar tomes on mathematics.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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