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'The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy' series editor John Joseph Adams shares how sci-fi is evolving'Trying to achieve change through something like science fiction seems like a pipe dream,' Adams says. 'But it also feels like the only thing that writers can hope to do.'
'Nine Continents' is Chinese author Xiaolu Guo鈥檚 resonant memoir about leaving her pastAlmost 20 years since she published her first novel in China, Xiaolu Guo lays bare her first 40 years in a single book.
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe Nobel judges described Ishiguro as a mix of Jane Austen and Franz Kafka, with 'a little bit of Marcel Proust.'
'A Bold and Dangerous Family' ably chronicles one Italian family's battle against MussoliniMoorehead, who grew up in Italy and speaks Italian, portrays the trials and intrigues of the Rosselli clan in intimate detail.
Bestselling books the week of 10/5/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
'The Future Is History' is a dark examination of what went wrong in RussiaRussian-American journalist and activist聽Masha聽Gessen focuses on four brave resisters聽to Russian totalitarianism.
'A Moonless, Starless Sky' tells the stories of the courageous figures who stand up to extremismThe book is聽the result of Alexis Okeowo鈥檚 tenure spent reporting in Africa over the past decade.
10 best books of October 2017, according to Amazon's editors As fall continues, more intriguing titles are headed to bookstores 鈥� check out what Amazon says are the best of the bunch.
'Unbelievable' chronicles the 'most unlikely, exciting, ugly ... bizarre campaign' in US historyNBC asked聽Tur聽to cover a couple of Trump events while the network鈥檚 political reporters followed more serious contenders. Five hundred and聽ten days later, she watched as Trump won.
'At the Strangers' Gate' is Adam Gopnik's captivating story of a couple finding their way in the Big AppleGopnik's new memoir is sure to become as beloved as 'Paris to the Moon.'
History's great stock crash? Not 1929 or 2008, but 1987'It was hair-raising, it was a cliff-hanger,' says Henriques of the 1987 incident. 'We almost didn't make it through.'
Why are illustrated books the most challenged books of 2016?This year, the main reason for objection to books was sex and gender issues.
'Coming to My Senses' tells the story of Chez Panisse icon Alice WatersAlice Waters's memoir is a mixed salad of various elements, some engaging, some less so.
Bestselling books the week of 9/28/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
'True Gentlemen' analyzes the troubling co-dependence of colleges and fraternitiesBy further exposing the profound problems with fraternities, Bloomberg News writer John Hechinger has made a far more valuable contribution to American college life than any fraternity ever could.
'Alone' examines the cinematic appeal of the 'England alone' World War II scenarioThe book's memoir framing-device gives author Michael Korda a measure of dramatic license, and he uses it to good effect. "Alone"聽is relentlessly involving reading, full of masterfully-drawn set pieces.
'Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities' succeeds as both vibrant history and personal tributeBettany Hughes wonderfully tells the story of a city that has been many things at many different times.
10 best books of September: the Monitor's picksFrom Tsarist Russia to Trump's America, and from evocative short stories to the best of expository prose, here are the 10 September releases most highly recommended by the Monitor's book critics.
'Little Soldiers' examines the Chinese education system from the insideJournalist Lenora Chu had聽privileged access into the academic world, further enhanced by her son Rainey鈥檚 admission into one of Shanghai鈥檚 most prestigious kindergartens.
'An Odyssey' is a father-son journey with Homer as guideA classics professor learns much when his father becomes his student.
