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'Pit Bull' aims to tell the story of a maligned breedJournalist Bronwen Dickey has written a powerful and disturbing book suggesting that fear of pit bulls reflects many broader American anxieties and pathologies surrounding race, class, and poverty.
'Everybody's Fool' revisits Sully Sullivan and his crumbling hometownPulitzer Prize winner Russo鈥檚 return to his fictional upstate New York mill town also marks a welcome return to the hard-bitten, hard-drinking, hardscrabble comedy of his first novels.
'Peter Arno' celebrates the iconic, one-of-a-kind New Yorker cartoonistIn Michael Maslin鈥檚 dazzling, well-illustrated biography, Arno鈥檚 story is told with skill and flair.
'American Rhapsody' is a dazzling slice of American cultural historyFrom Edith Wharton to Nina Simone, New Yorker writer Claudia Roth Pierpont brings 20th-century America alive.
'Valiant Ambition' offers a more nuanced history of Benedict ArnoldNathaniel Philbrick shows that while a major gulf of character did separate Arnold and Washington, the former was more sympathetic and the latter more flawed than the popular mythology suggests.
'A Self-Made Man' follows Abraham Lincoln from youth to political hustlerBlumenthal's new biography of Lincoln 鈥� the first of a multi-volume project 鈥� is engaging, informative, meandering.
Bestselling books the week of 5/12/16, according to IndieBound*What's flying fastest off the shelves at independent bookstores across America?
Inside the heartbreak of the Kent State shootingsHistorian Howard Means, author of聽 鈥�67 Shots,鈥� explores the myths and realities of the 1970 Kent State shootings.
'The Noise of Time' blends Shostakovich, Stalin, the meaning of artJulian Barnes weaves his new novel from the true story of Russian composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
'Booked' asks tweens to consider the idea that being smart could be coolNewbery medal-winner Kwame Alexander brings soccer, poetry, and teen life together in a compelling narrative for middle-grade readers.
10 best books of May 2016, according to Amazon's editorsHere are the best books to be released this month, according to staff at Amazon.
No room for the urban poor? 'Evicted' author Matthew Desmond explainsMatthew Desmond explores the intense hardship connected with evictions, which have now become a regular occurrence in American cities.
'Zero K' is Don DeLillo's spare but bracing assessment of life's later yearsRoss Lockhart, a super-wealthy businessman, has holed up in a facility in the barren chaparral of Kyrgyzstan, hoping to cheat death through cryonic suspension.
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'Pumpkinflowers,' a memoir by an Israeli soldier, questions the battleWas a small hilltop in southern Lebanon worth the lives that were lost there?
'Book Interrupted': the sometimes frustrating story of my reading lifeI鈥檓 not the sort who usually polishes off a book in a single sitting. Life cuts into my dance with the page, asking for a waltz of its own.
'The Morning They Came for Us' conveys the grim story of SyriaA journalist refuses to let readers forget Syria.- How well do you know philosophy?
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3 powerful literary takes on motherhoodOnly in the last 25 years has there been much to choose from in the way of literary takes on and by mothers.
'Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here' is full of penetrating insights into teens' livesThis debut novel makes important points about poverty, bullying, and popularity.
