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'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams' is time well spent with Stephen KingKing's latest short story collection shows the Master of Horror to be at the top of his form.
'Destiny and Power' brings a gentle touch to biography of Bush 41Jon Meacham offers a surprisingly deferential biography of George Herbert Walker Bush.
'Reclaiming Conversation': what we lose when we're always onlineMIT professor Sherry Turkle is not averse to technology. But she expresses hope that society's reliance on it could be moderated a bit.
Bestselling books the week of 12/3/15, according to IndieBound What's flying fastest off the shelves of independent bookstores this week?
10 best books of December 2015, according to Amazon's editors Here are the best titles to come out at the end of the year, according to Amazon's editors.
'Under the Udala Trees' examines the potential for cruelty in ordinary lifeNigerian author Chinelo Okparanta's first novel starts quietly. Don't be deceived.
'Kin' expresses Pieter Hugo's discomfort with his homeland South AfricaHugo's photgraphs in 'Kin' might best be called thoughtfully uncomfortable.
Lucy Maud Montgomery: From hat box novelist to Google Doodle tributeOn the Canadian author's birthday, Google honors Lucy Maud Montgomery's famous novel 'Anne of Green Gables.'聽
What to read while thinking of Paris? Pick up Montaigne, mon cher.Montaigne didn鈥檛 come to any clear conclusions about man鈥檚 place in the cosmos or the dimensions of his soul, but his essays gave us something almost as good: the story of one man sitting alone, thinking for himself, refusing to let some craven orthodoxy do his thinking for him.
Ta-Nehisi Coates packed the house at Davidson College talking on raceCoates 鈥� journalist, commentator, and聽National Book Award-winner 鈥� is seen by many as the voice of his generation on black America.
'Sam Phillips' chronicles the life of the man who incubated rock 'n rollPhillips dreamed of capturing 'the excitement from the music in the cotton fields.'
Are you truly thankful for the good books you already have?On Thanksgiving Day, after the dishes are cleared, scan your own home library and remind yourself how lucky you are to have so much great writing at your fingertips.
'The Gratitude Diaries' explains why a grateful heart is a happy heartAn author takes a hard look at gratitude and finds her life transformed.
Mark Twain's turkey tale 鈥� perhaps the funniest in American literatureWhat Twain eventually learned, after an interminable time on the trail, is that turkeys have a genius for feigning injury.
'S.P.Q.R.' offers a learned, intimate view of ancient RomeThe survival of what Romans wrote about themselves gives Mary Beard鈥檚 project its heft.
Bestselling books the week of 11/24/15, according to IndieBound* Created by the聽American Booksellers Association, the IndieBound bestseller list uses data from hundreds of independent bookstores across the country to determine which books are flying fastest off the shelves on any given week.聽
'This Old Man' displays the charms of New Yorker writer Roger AngellAngell moves with agility between humor, pathos, and playful metaphor, often within the same essay.
'Paradise of the Pacific': a transporting immersion in Hawai鈥榠鈥檚 historySusanna Moore details the tenacity with which Hawai鈥榠鈥檚 native peoples held on to their way of life in the face of colonial exploits.
How the Eiffel Tower outlasted its criticsAuthor Jill Jonnes on Paris landmark鈥檚 evolution into an enduring symbol.
'Lafayette in the Somewhat United States' brings the French founding father to lifeSarah Vowell trains her irreverent historical imagination on the revolutionary ally who made the American Revolution a global struggle.