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Poet and Iraqi exile Dunya Mikhail's book 'The Beekeeper' serves as testimony for the victims of ISISMikhail聽devotes much of 'The Beekeeper' to transcribing the stories of the Yazidi women of northern Iraq who have been driven from their homes, sold into sexual slavery, and yet, remarkably, survived.
8 new baseball books for Opening Day Here are excerpts from eight new titles on baseball.
'The Family Medici' vividly and clearly tells the story of one clan's merciless self-aggrandizementThe Medici men and women portrayed by Mary Hollingsworth are generous art patrons, but always with the end goal of burnishing their own reputations and making Florence their sole possession.
First LookSpanish booksellers deploy 'Don Quixote' in free speech battleBooksellers in Spain are using a digital tool built with 17th century 'Don Quixote' to recreate a banned book and protest censorship. In the digital age, banning books is 'ridiculous and anachronistic,' the Madrid Booksellers's Guild says.聽
'The Last Wild Men of Borneo' is a real-life adventure tale about two expats in the jungleHoffman鈥檚 fascination with and enthusiasm for his topic are readily apparent on every page.
YA novel 'The Poet X' is an elegiac meditation on poesy and religionYoung poet-protagonist Xiomara must dig deep to reclaim her identity and her voice, in spite of her rough circumstances.
9 sports books for spring Here are excerpts from seven new books about sports.
'A Long Way From Home' shifts from a lively 1950s travelogue to a darker debate over racial identityIn Booker Prize-winning author Peter Carey鈥檚 latest novel, a 1950s road rally serves as both an entertaining look at the Australian countryside and a plot device.
鈥極ne Kiss or Two?' author Andy Scott explores origins of greetings and cultural differences'Greetings ... can be fraught with difficulty, doubt and embarrassment,' Scott says.
'Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown' expertly reveals a hidden immigrant worldThis story of a Chinese activitst's efforts to make a new life in the US is startling but heartening.
'Fisherman's Blues' takes readers to Senegal's coast for an upclose view of a fading lifestyleThis book's prose shimmers, making it a memorably beautiful tribute.
Rania Abouzeid's book 'No Turning Back,' about the Syrian civil war, is eloquent and devastatingAbouzeid gives voice to a handful of the millions of Syrians whose lives were tragically upended by war.
10 best books of March: the Monitor's picksFrom a young Picasso to a Chinese couple seeking new lives in the US to the travails of the Yazidi women of Iraq 鈥� the Monitor's '10 best books of March' list ranges far and wide.
First LookA colorful bus brings books and joy to Afghan childrenA library on wheels, the blue bus of Kabul is giving children in war-torn Afghanistan the opportunity to read. The initiative is a step toward reducing the country's 62 percent illiteracy rate.
'The Cloister' probes deeply into matters of faith, dogma, complicity, and forgivenessIn James Carroll's latest novel, the protagonists' present lives are deeply affected by their perceptions of past mistakes.
Author Jane Harper makes Australia a full-fledged character in 'The Dry'Former journalist Jane Harper has become one of the world's leading mystery writers with her "Aaron Falk" mysteries set in distant corners of Australia.
3 compelling new mystery booksReliable names in mystery writing shine in two new mysteries and a biography of the queen of the genre.
'The Woman's Hour' wonderfully recalls the furious fight to ratify the Nineteenth AmendmentElaine Weiss鈥檚 superb book focuses on six key weeks in the suffrage battle.
'Picasso and the Painting that Shocked the World' depicts the heady, hardscrabble Paris yearsThe book culminates in the creation of the radical 1907 masterpiece 'Les Demoiselles d鈥橝vignon.'
'Basketball' is a fast-break compilation that goes from from the beginning to Stephen CurryA new Library of America collection of the best basketball writing offers an embarrassment of riches.