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'Do Not Become Alarmed' finds suspense on a luxurious Christmas cruiseIn Maile Meloy's new novel, a carefully controlled vacation gives way to crisis, and reveals the thin membrane that surrounds a 'predictable' life.聽
How to explain refugee crisis to kids? Books.Recently a number of children鈥檚 books tackling the global refugee crisis have hit the market, helping to humanize the conflict, as well as educate, empower, and build empathy in young readers.
'Morningstar' shows how the books she read shaped a young woman's lifeAnn Hood's memoir about reading as a form of self-discovery is fast-paced and beguiling.
'The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway' reveals much 鈥� maybe too muchThe inclusion of early drafts of Hemingway stories sometimes detracts from the pleasure of the finished product.
Bestselling books the week of 8/10/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
How woolly mammoth bones baffled previous generationsJohn McKay, author of 'Discovering the Mammoth,' talks about the theories that earlier generations developed in their struggle to understand woolly mammoth bones.
'The Arena' explores America's stadiums and their relation to the national character'The Arena' is聽fun because of the author鈥檚 wit and style 鈥� a kind of gonzo/embedded journalism hybrid.
'Notes on a Foreign Country' is an American's struggle to understand her country's relation to the worldJournalist Suzy Hansen wonders how she, an Ivy League-educated journalist, could have been so ignorant of the extent of the US's role in remaking the post-World War II world.
10 best books of August 2017, according to Amazon's editors Enjoy the last of summer's days with one of these books by your side.
How a poet brought the Statue of Liberty to lifeEsther Schor, biographer of Emma Lazarus, talks about what she means today.
'Grocery' is Michael Ruhlman's exploration of the grocery store as an idea and institutionConsider, says Ruhlman, the most compelling evidence of a civilization's evolutionary leap: the grocery store....
Will Americans be able to agree on a most loved book?A new PBS program explores America's favorite books, culminating in an election.
Bestselling books the week of 8/3/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Meet the woman who brings Haruki Murakami works to an enthusiastic PolandAnna Zieli艅ska-Elliott is now translating her 12th Murakami novel from Japanese into Polish, as she has done for 30 years. She is a聽professor of Japanese literature at Boston University.
'Sour Heart' author Jenny Zhang illuminates the immigrant's struggles to belongZhang makes her fiction debut with a collection of seven loosely linked stories highlighting the Chinese-American immigrant experience.
'The Cooking Gene' views the African-American experience through its foodCulinary historian Michael W. Twitty manages to document one of America's foundational food cultures in a book that is also moving and deeply personal.
'The Darkening Web' warns of destruction through cyber meansThe implication throughout the book couldn't be clearer: In cyber warfare, there are no civilians.
'The Library of Fates' has clever mythology, delicious languageAditi Khorana's young adult novel聽sets up a stunning premise but falters en route to conclusion.
'American Ulysses' writer Ronald C. White explains why Grant is so often misunderstoodWhite, also the author of the bestselling "A. Lincoln," is receiving the Civil War Forum of New York鈥檚 2017 award for Excellence in Civil War biography.聽
10 best books of July: the Monitor's picksFrom the shores of Walden Pond to the steppes of Siberia, and from Jane Austen's parlor to the fields of an Amish farmer, here are the 10 July titles that most appealed to the Monitor's book critics.
