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12 best books of September 2017, according to Amazon's editors What are some of the best titles to choose as fall begins? Check out Amazon's list.
'Border' is a touching meditation on lives shaped by geographic boundariesAfter 25 years away, memoirist Kapka Kassabova returns to her childhood home where Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey intersect.
10 best books of September: the Monitor's picks Here are the 10 September releases most highly recommended by the Monitor's book critics.
Hurricane hubris and heroism: Inside 1935's devastating Key West stormThe storm's heroes include a brave train engineer who desperately hustled evacuees out of the hurricane's path, an immigrant from the Bahamas who tried to save his fishing-and-farming clan of more than 60 people, and Ernest Hemingway.
'Mozart: The Man Revealed' explores a life infused with as much drama as any operaBiographer John Suchet does not look closely at Mozart's extraordinary musical creations, but he does provide an engaging glimpse into the life of a remarkable young man and his world.
Robert E. Lee and George Washington do not equate, says Lee biographer Jonathan HornThere were surprisingly deep personal ties between the two generals, says Horn, but ultimately the two men cast their lots on opposing sides of history.聽
'Glass Houses' is yet another excellent Louise Penny mysteryPenny 鈥� whose books wind up on Best Novels of the Year lists, not 'just' Best Mysteries 鈥� is a one-woman argument against literary snobbery.
'The Golden House' is Salman Rushdie's failed attempt to capture America in the Trump eraRushdie's twelfth novel feels like a rehash of old themes with a 21st-century gloss.
'The Last of the Tsars' is authoritative, definitive, and tells a compelling storyOxford historian Robert Service examines the overthrow of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II in February 1917.
Bestselling books the week of 9/7/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Baking and crime make for sweet combinationThe successful combination of baking and crime means the list of dessert-themed cozy mystery book series is now in the baker鈥檚 dozens.
'George and Lizzie' proves Nancy Pearl can also be a storytellerCelebrity librarian Pearl - best known for her book recommendations 鈥� comes out with her first novel.
'The Heart's Invisible Furies' is the funny, touching story of an Irish EverymanBoyne's new novel follows its protagonist throughout the decades, from birth in 1945 to age 70, and the story encompasses a great deal of history.
How 1927鈥檚 Mississippi River megaflood changed AmericaIn 1926, the Army Corps of Engineers said they were in a position to protect the entire Mississippi valley. It was classic hubris.
Hillary Clinton to kick off book tour for 'What Happened'Clinton's new book is a personal memoir about her campaign as well as a 'cautionary tale' about Russian interference in the election.
'So Happiness to Meet You' spins an improbable premise into a deft memoirAuthor聽Karin Esterhammer聽talked her husband into selling nearly everything they owned to move to Vietnam with their 8-year-old son.
3 science books compelling enough to speak to all readersBob Berman's 'Zapped,'聽Max Tegmark's 'Life 3.0,' and Richard Dawkins's 'Science in the Soul' succeed in turning science books into good summer reads.
Bestselling books the week of 8/31/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
'Stark Mad Abolitionists' is a dramatic and gripping account of the battle over slavery fought in KansasRobert K. Sutton brilliantly brings history to life in this thoroughly researched and passionately recounted story.
'Charlton Heston' is a voluminous, possibly definitive, study of a Hollywood paragon of masculinityA portrait of the actor who gave life to the larger-than-life.
