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'Founding Grammars' traces the battles Americans have fought over languageAn impassioned history of primary US prose offers 'entertaining historical perspective on these linguistic clashes.'
First Look'Hoverboard' and 'MacGyver' earn place in Oxford's online dictionary. NBD.The Oxford Dictionary inducted a spate of new words into its online dictionary Thursday, including 'manspreading,' 'holodeck,' 'MacGyver,' and聽'Grexit.'
'Kissinger's Shadow' accuses the controversial statesman of militarizing US foreign policyAuthor and historian Greg Grandin makes bold but compelling accusations, blaming Kissinger for setting aggressive precedents that support perpetual war.聽
5 unconventional sports books Here are a handful that are delightfully offbeat books about sports.
Latest Stieg Larsson novel isn't by Larsson 鈥� and some readers are not happy'The Girl in the Spider's Web' brings back characters Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist as they join forces to hack into the US National Security Agency in a plotline that includes stories about hacking, corruption, and national security.
'A River Runs Again' tells five tales of India at the crossroadsJournalist Meera Subramanian beautifully crafts a filigree of cautionary and celebratory stories about India future and past, voiced with dignified passion.
Bestselling books the week of 8/27/15, according to IndieBound* What's selling best in America's independent bookstores this week?
'The Last Love Song' offers a sympathetic, insightful look at the life of Joan DidionBiographer Tracy Daugherty wonderfully chronicles the life and work of American icon Joan Didion.
6 baseball books for the 2015 season鈥檚 stretch drive Here are recent releases for those eager for good late-season baseball reads.
Hugo Awards: Who won, who didn't, in the most controversial voting everWhy weren't there winners announced in five categories for the prestigious science fiction Hugo Awards? The prizes have been engulfed in controversy this year.
'The Love She Left Behind' is a finely drawn, dark comedy of manners, classThe death of a matriarch sets in motion this acerbic British comedy from an acclaimed London screenwriter.
'The Speechwriter' tells the story of a disgraced governor's former scribeThe man who put words into the mouth of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford takes readers behind the political curtain.
'The Automobile Club of Egypt' depicts an Egyptian family and nation split by ideologyAlaa Al Aswany, author of 'The Yacoubian Building,' tells a finely textured story of politics, class, romance, and family set post-World War II Cairo.
The true, heroic, and complex story of how water came to Los AngelesAs southern Californians grapple with drought, 鈥榃ater to the Angels鈥� tells the fascinating history behind the state's water politics.
9 best books about the Pacific War World War II is sometimes thought of as primarily a fight against Nazi Germany, with the war in the Pacific as an after-thought. Fortunately, there is no shortage of worthwhile books about the Pacific War.
Warren Harding: the world takes another look at scandalous claimsDNA findings give new credibility to 'The President's Daughter,' a controversial 1928 memoir.
'The Last Bus to Wisdom' is Ivan Doig's final tribute to the American WestIvan Doig's last novel is his most autobiographical and a gentle close to a worthy career.
Bestselling books the week of 8/20/15, according to IndieBound* What's selling best in America's independent bookstores this week?
'The Orpheus Clock,' a true story of Nazi art theft, is fascinating, horrifying, and essentialSimon Goodman鈥檚 account of his family's quest to recover art stolen by the Nazis is at once a family history, a memoir, a mini-social history of Germany pre-1914, a Holocaust story,聽 and a revealing look at the inner workings of the art world.
'The Road Not Taken' reveals the unexpected in Frost's most famous poemNew York Times poetry critic David Orr wonders why Americans have so consistently and so willfully misread one of the best known poems in the English language.
