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- 'Water for Elephants' could be adapted as a Broadway musical'Water for Elephants' is by Sara Gruen and follows a veterinarian-in-training who joins the circus and falls in love.
- 'All the Light We Cannot See' won't be dislodged from bestseller lists'Light' came out months ago but is holding its own on bestseller lists among newer releases such as 'The Girl on the Train' by Paula Hawkins.
- 'Happy Are the Happy' spins a lively cluster of stories around a Parisian couple and their social networkInfidelity, children, and pasta are the stuff of life in 21 interlinked stories about a sparring Parisian couple and their connections.
- Reader recommendation: Piano LessonsMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'The Clan of the Cave Bear' TV adaptation moves forward at Lifetime'Bear' will reportedly feature actress Millie Brady as the main character Ayla.
- Blizzard 2015: One book fan recalls literary wintersThe Blizzard of 2015 would be only too familiar to Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jo March.
- 'Chasing the Scream' poses provocative questions about America's 'war on drugs'One hundred years after the Harrison Act outlawed heroin and cocaine in the United States, a journalist challenges America's approach to illegal drugs.
- Reader recommendation: All God's DangersMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Alec Baldwin will release a memoir in 2016Baldwin recently appeared in the films 'Still Alice' and 'Blue Jasmine,' among other work.
- 'Z for Zachariah' movie debuts at the Sundance Film Festival'Z for Zachariah' is based on the book of the same name by 'Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH' author Robert C. O'Brien.
- 'Sympathy for the Devil' presents an often unlovely portrait of Gore VidalA confidant recalls his complex rapport with one of the 20th century’s great contrarians.
- Reader recommendation: In Harm's WayMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'The Magician's Lie': A blend of 'The Night Circus' and 'Water for Elephants'?The novel 'The Magician's Lie' by Greer Macallister tells the story of a female illusionist who falls under suspicion for murder when her husband turns up dead.
- 'The Girl on the Train' rockets up sales charts, receives more critical praise'The Girl on the Train' is by Paula Hawkins.
- 'Why Homer Matters' calls the ancient poet 'a guide to life'To read Homer, says Adam Nicolson, is to feel 'a form of reassurance that in the end there is some kind of understanding in the world.'
- Reader recommendation: America in RetreatMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Scott Blackwood's 'See How Small' attracts critical praiseBlackwood's novel centers on a crime that takes place in a Texas town, examining the aftermath of the crime – and the afterlives of its victims.
- 'The Terrible Two' writers Mac Barnett and Jory John embark on a whirlwind book tourThe writers reportedly visited 22 schools over the course of one week for their children's book. 'Two' centers on prankster rivals living in the town of Yawnee Valley.
- 'The Secret Wisdom of the Earth' lives up to its hype and then someIn this astonishingly confident debut novel, a teenager and his mother move to rural Kentucky seeking healing from a tragedy – only to discover a new form of trouble.
- 'Guantánamo Diary,' written by an inmate, reveals inside look at infamous prisonMohamedou Ould Slahi’s personal diary, which was published Tuesday by Little, Brown, is being billed as the first book written by a Guantánamo detainee.