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'When the English Fall' envisions the Amish as society's post-apocalyptic saviorsA gentle concern imbues this contemplative novel which imagines the rest of the society turning to the Amish when the power grid fails.
'The Netanyahu Years' portrays a divisive, oddly compelling world leaderThis is the kind of caustic and extremely topical biography that readers would expect to come from a working journalist rather than a professional historian.
'Refuge' is the story of an Iranian family in search of homeDina Nayeri鈥檚 sophomore novel, 'Refuge,' tells a tale of migration and dislocation.
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'The Unwomanly Face of War' records Russian women fighting in WWIISvetlana Alexievich, whose oral histories of Soviet and Russian lives earned her the Nobel Prize for聽Literature, collected the stories of hundreds of Soviet women World War II vets.
'Ants Among Elephants' offers a window into the complexities of IndiaSujatha Gidla's memoir of her mother and uncle is a moving, fascinating story of class struggle in India.
'Modern Gods' is an agile domestic drama, split between Ireland and Papua New GuineaIn Nick Laird's third novel, the everyday drama of a Northern Ireland family is overshadowed by a past that can't quite be left behind.
'Live from Cairo' vividly describes a world where refugees are case numbersIan Bassingthwaighte's debut novel centers on refugees and resettlement officers living in Cairo, as longtime Egyptian president Husni Mubarak steps down.
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'White Man's Game' details efforts to save Mozambique's Gorongosa Park海角大神 Science Monitor correspondent Stephanie Hanes profiles Boston philanthropist Greg Carr, who fell in love with Gorongosa and launched a campaign to bring its wildlife back.
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'Magpie Murders' author Anthony Horowitz delivers remarkable twist on the classic whodunnitThe聽bestselling British author and screenwriter is making his own bid for detective story immortality with an astonishing Golden Age-style mystery novel.
'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' is a sprawling tale in which Kashmir looms largeArundhati Roy's聽first novel in two decades returns to the religious divisions polarizing India.
'Jane Austen at Home' considers where and how Austen lived and why it mattersLucy Worlsey's new biography聽covers familiar ground but also offers some distinct angles.
'Thoreau: A Life' doesn't shy away from the man's myriad contradictionsLaura Dassow Walls's work聽offers a well-crafted biography of Walden鈥檚 most famous resident.聽
'American Fire' spotlights a troubling rural arson spree solved by old-fashioned legworkThe new book by Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse is聽one of the year's best and most unusual true-crime books.
'Among The Living And The Dead' is a moving search for traces of the author's Latvian familyJournalist Inara Verzemnieks fuses world history with personal history as she travels to Latvia to trace the surviving branches of her family.
'Hannibal' relates the famous general's story with wonderful energyArcheologist and historian Patrick Hunt distills his survey of literature about the Second Punic War into a brightly dramatic story that covers virtually every anecdote connected with Hannibal.
Happy birthday to Henry David Thoreau 鈥� an inconvenient yet invaluable friendI didn't take much to Thoreau the first time I read him. He's been proving me wrong ever since.
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