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'The Nordic Theory of Everything' wishes the US were more ScandinavianA Finnish journalist explains what the United States can learn from Nordic countries
'White Trash' argues that America has always been riven by class conflictHistorian Nancy Isenberg's book is a carefully researched indictment of a particularly American species of hypocrisy, and it鈥檚 deeply relevant today.
'Bobby Kennedy' is an engaging look at the most enigmatic KennedyLarry Tye's book has the field to itself in the quest to be the definitive life of the man who was Ambassador Joseph Kennedy's third son, President Kennedy's Attorney General, and 1968's most evocative candidate for president.
Why I read 'Robinson Crusoe' every summerThe same way that some families go to the same mountain cabin, beach house or place by the lake each vacation season, every summer I find myself circling back to 'Robinson Crusoe.'
'The Sport of Kings,' C. E. Morgan's second novel, is large in every senseMorgan gives us more than two centuries of love, hatred, and dramatic action.
Bestselling books the week of 6/30/16, according to IndieBound* What's flying fastest off the shelves at indie bookstores across the country?
'End of Watch': Stephen King's trilogy roars to a satisfying conclusionStephen King is really, really good at what he does.
'Jackson, 1964' sheds light on some very dark chapters of US historyFor half a century, Calvin Trillin has been writing about race in America.
'The Bones of Grace': Anam's 鈥楤engal trilogy鈥� comes to a graceful closeThe final book of Tahmima Anam's 'Bengal trilogy' encompasses lost love, history, and ceaseless perseverance.聽
Why I read a poem a dayReading at least one poem a day has been like an intellectual vitamin, giving me a small dose of literature even on busy days when I can鈥檛 get to the novels and nonfiction on my nightstand.
6 baseball books ripe for midseason reading Here are excerpts from six intriguing new baseball books.
4 light, breezy audio books for summer This month's audiobook are light, breezy, and humorous 鈥� in other words, vacation reads.
'The Romanovs' tells the gripping, tragic, fascinating story of Russia's tsarsThe focus of this enormous book is on character and the distorting effects of absolute power on both rulers and their advisors in each era, culminating in 'the often bizarre, daft and self-defeating trajectory of the last Romanovs.'
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'Dark Night' turns Batman into a real-life heroPaul Dini recounts his real-life journey out of darkness after a harrowing mugging with the help of a certain Caped Crusader.
'China's Future' predicts the protracted decline of China's Communist PartyChina watcher David Shambaugh once thought China's Communist Party would be able to adapt and survive, but he now says that without reform the Party has nowhere to go.聽
'The Way to the Spring' chronicles the frustration, heartbreak of Palestinians'This is our lives,' novelist and journalist Ben Ehrenreich hears over and over from residents of Nabi Saleh, a small town 25 minutes northwest of Ramallah in Palestine's West Bank.
How the 1976 GOP convention set Reagan on the path to powerThe future president lost to Gerald Ford in nail-biter but emerged wiser and stronger.
Bestselling books the week of 6/23/16, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at indie bookstores across the US?