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'The Firebrand and the First Lady': how two great women came togetherThis thoroughly researched book chronicles the peripatetic career of Pauli Murray and her friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt.
Burgers and books: Why McDonalds is serving books in its Happy MealsFrom Feb. 2 through Feb. 15, McDonald's will be replacing its usual Happy Meal prize with a children's book.
10 best books of February 2016, according to Amazon's editors What are the best books to have been released this month? Check out the selections from Amazon's editors.
Bestselling books the week of 2/4/16, according to IndieBound* What's getting readers hooked at indie bookstores across the country?
'Living On Paper' wonderfully displays the many faces of Iris MurdochIt is a compulsively discursive, doggedly happy Iris Murdoch who dominates 'Living on Paper' and fills it with the kind of smart, nimble-footed smalltalk that is always the principal joy of reading letter collections.
'Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist' turns recent history into literatureSunil Yapa's fictional treatment of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle seeks out a 'higher law' in the chaos of competing causes.
'In Europe's Shadow' is a serious yet impassioned survey of RomaniaVeteran regional specialist Robert Kaplan takes a hard-nosed yet caring view of Romania.
'Our Spoons Came from Woolworth's' is a quirky delightThe reprint of this novel gives readers a chance to discover an unpredictable English novelist who never turned away from the black comedy of life.
'The Dogs of Littlefield' is one of the funniest new books of the yearA paradisal suburb is set on its ear by a proposed dog park, with acerbic laughter as a result.
Why JK Rowling's empire is lowering the drawbridgeThe renowned author's digital publishing house, Pottermore, has retained a monopoly on the sale of Harry Potter e-books and audio titles ever since its launch. But times they are a-changing, and the company's strategy is undergoing seismic shifts.
#1000BlackGirlBooks aims to connect black girls with books they can relate toA sixth-grader from New Jersey has started #1000BlackGirlBooks, a social media campaign and book drive to collect books in which black girls are the main characters.
'Bookishly Ever After' is a YA novel that entertains 鈥� and then challengesFor high school geek Phoebe, real life can鈥檛 possibly measure up to bestselling fiction. What happens if she fails at her first attempt at romance outside a book?
J.K. Rowling will receive PEN free speech prizeThe Harry Potter author will be presented the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service award May 16 at the literary and human rights group's annual gala in New York.
'Ostend' evokes Belgium in the summer of 1936, as Europe stood on the brinkIn this novelistic telling of history, Joseph Roth and Stefan Zweig 鈥� whose friendship is characterized by both admiration and resentment 鈥� encounter a series of other authors and cultural figures displaced by the intellectual unrest that preceded the carnage of World War II.
Bestselling books the week of 1/28/16, according to IndieBound* What's getting readers hooked at indie bookstores across the country?
Beatrix Potter: Newly-found story by 'Peter Rabbit' author will be released this fallA story by Potter titled 'The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots' was recently found and will be released by Penguin Random House in September.
My 'Updike year' 鈥� why I appreciate the man more now than everUpdike's works accompanied me to the doctor and the dentist, to campouts and picnics, summer vacations and office lunch hours.
'The Dictator' completes the Robert Harris trilogy about the great CiceroHarris brings Cicero to life with wit, verve, and vanity.
'Sailor and Fiddler' is Herman Wouk's nonchalantly charming memoir'Sailor' and 'Fiddler' are both in the same key: anecdotal, glancing, casual, and far more concerned with sharing fun facts about Wouk鈥檚 career than divulging anything especially intimate.
3 Super Bowl books to celebrate the 50th anniversary For in-depth retrospectives of the first 49 Super Bowls, these recent releases are hard to beat.