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Europe, what are you reading? My fellow train passengers respondSelections range from George Orwell's '1984' to 'World Without End' by Ken Follett.
'The Seabird's Cry' follows the 350 bird species inhabiting the coastlines and open oceans of our planetIt's a completely pitiless world, in which the attrition of natural predation is increased exponentially by the harshness of the environment.
First LookTown library starts newspaper after local paper shutteredA small New Hampshire town library offers a model of how others can step in to provide information for communities in 'news deserts.'
First LookWhy university libraries are tossing millions of booksStruggling to keep up with the increasing digitization of academia, libraries are purging older volumes to make聽way for study spaces and coffee shops. The act is a radical shift from when the value of a library was measured by the scope of its books.聽
'Directorate S' attempts to unravel the countless complexities of the Afghan warRelentless reporting and fastidious cultivation of sources are the hallmarks of Steve Coll's reporting and this book is no exception.
'The New Negro' explores Alain Locke not only as writer but also as a thinker and a fighterStewart's impressive new book confronts for the whole of its great length the 鈥渢wo-ness鈥� described often by W. E. B. Du Bois in his masterpiece, "The Souls of Black Folk."
'Love, Hate and Other Filters' is 2018鈥檚 most important YA novel so farAs we witness the senior year of Maya Aziz 鈥� the teenage daughter in the only Indian Muslim family in Batavia, Ill. 鈥� we鈥檙e treated to a sliver of an American Muslim bildungsroman.
In bookstores, immersion 鈥� and volumes of refugeBeneath a surge in interest for books about the Trump administration, booksellers see something more: Readers seeking to connect and make sense of a tumultuous time.
'Epic City' tells the story of a young expat and his love affair with CalcuttaAuthor Kushanava Choudhury's forte is history, well and freshly told.
'Jefferson's Daughters' tells the story of three of Thomas Jefferson's daughters 鈥� white and black'Jefferson鈥檚 Daughters' brings its period vividly to life, a credit to Kerrison鈥檚 exhaustive research, her passion for her subject, and her elegant writing.
'The Monk of Mokha' follows the true-life adventures of an immigrant turned coffee-entrepreneurIt's yet another example of the uncanny ability of Dave Eggers to transform the long-odds stories of real-life immigrants into poignant page-turners.
Read these books in 2018 Need some help with selecting new books this year? The Monitor asked four bookstores what books they think will excite readers in 2018.聽These 13 recommendations are from four independent bookstores across the United States: Prairie Lights in Iowa City; the Strand in New York; Off the Beaten Path in Steamboat Springs, Colo.; and Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tenn. (The Monitor has not reviewed these selections.)聽
7 popular books from 2017 Is reading more one of your New Year鈥檚 resolutions? Catch up on last year鈥檚 most popular reads 鈥� from fiction to the political 鈥� before diving into 2018 selections.
'Armed in America' asks exactly what the Founding Fathers intended with the Second AmendmentCharles, a historian and legal scholar, spent almost 10 years digging deeply into the issue of gun rights and he has written a credible record of what he learned.
'Norwich' is the town that grows OlympiansHow valuing development over winning helped a town become an Olympic pipeline.
Why are America's wild horses at a crisis point?'Wild Horse Country' author David Philipps discusses聽the rise (and fall and rise) of the American wild horse and the federal government's bizarre approach to equine management.
'Bringing Columbia Home' is a grimly captivating new history of the loss of the space shuttle ColumbiaAuthors Michael Leinbach and Jonathan Ward set their account apart from other 'Columbia' books by following the story from its central tragedy to its almost unthinkably sad immediate aftermath.
'Winter' is Karl Ove Knausgaard's attempt to make you see things anewKnausgaard's essays are naive, charming, and eye-opening.
'Tears of Salt' is a deeply moving, first-hand response to Italy's refugee crisisAs a doctor on Italy's southernmost island, Pietro Bartolo has a front-row seat to one of the world's most horrifying spectacles.
5 new titles to check out in the New YearAmong the flood of 2018 book releases, here are five particularly fine new titles.