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10 best books of May: the Monitor's picks

Excellent narrative lines 鈥 both real and invented 鈥 lift these 10 new May releases above the pack.

7. 'Hostage,' by Guy Delisle

In 1997, Christophe Andr茅, a French administrator for Doctors Without Borders in the northern Caucasus, was kidnapped by Chechens and spent 111 days as a hostage. Guy Delisle, the marvelous cartoonist, memoirist, and travel writer, met Andr茅 in 2000 and over the next 15 years learned, gathered, and then re-created in a graphic novel the harrowing yet also inspiring and compelling story of Andr茅鈥檚 captivity. You can read the Monitor's full review of "Hostage" here.

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