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'Draft No. 4' is as lean and punchy as legendary author John McPhee's earlier workThe star attraction in McPhee's book on writing isn't the method but the man.
'Stanton' brings Lincoln's secretary of war out of the historical shadowsStanton聽served in two key cabinets posts for two of America's worst presidents (James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson), as well as for Abraham Lincoln, whom he helped to win the Civil War.
6 books to kick off the 2017 football season Here are excerpts from six new football-themed books.
'A Legacy of Spies' reminds readers why they have loved John le Carr茅 so well and so longLe Carr茅's latest novel allows him to revisit his聽beloved earlier novels from a gripping new perspective.
'Letters to Memory' tells the story of author Karen Tei Yamashita's World War II internmentAllusive, quirky, questioning, 'Letters' is a challenging text.
Bestselling books the week of 9/14/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
'The Vietnam War' co-directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explain why Vietnam is relevant to us todayBurns and Novick call the Vietnam War 'the most consequential event in American history in the second half of the last century.'
'A Column of Fire' is half historic epic, half thriller 鈥� all of it engagingKen Follett returns with the final (we think) Kingsbridge story, now skipping ahead a couple of centuries to the Elizabethan era.
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'Border' is a touching meditation on lives shaped by geographic boundariesAfter 25 years away, memoirist Kapka Kassabova returns to her childhood home where Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey intersect.
10 best books of September: the Monitor's picks Here are the 10 September releases most highly recommended by the Monitor's book critics.
Hurricane hubris and heroism: Inside 1935's devastating Key West stormThe storm's heroes include a brave train engineer who desperately hustled evacuees out of the hurricane's path, an immigrant from the Bahamas who tried to save his fishing-and-farming clan of more than 60 people, and Ernest Hemingway.
'Mozart: The Man Revealed' explores a life infused with as much drama as any operaBiographer John Suchet does not look closely at Mozart's extraordinary musical creations, but he does provide an engaging glimpse into the life of a remarkable young man and his world.
Robert E. Lee and George Washington do not equate, says Lee biographer Jonathan HornThere were surprisingly deep personal ties between the two generals, says Horn, but ultimately the two men cast their lots on opposing sides of history.聽
'Glass Houses' is yet another excellent Louise Penny mysteryPenny 鈥� whose books wind up on Best Novels of the Year lists, not 'just' Best Mysteries 鈥� is a one-woman argument against literary snobbery.
'The Golden House' is Salman Rushdie's failed attempt to capture America in the Trump eraRushdie's twelfth novel feels like a rehash of old themes with a 21st-century gloss.
'The Last of the Tsars' is authoritative, definitive, and tells a compelling storyOxford historian Robert Service examines the overthrow of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II in February 1917.
Bestselling books the week of 9/7/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Baking and crime make for sweet combinationThe successful combination of baking and crime means the list of dessert-themed cozy mystery book series is now in the baker鈥檚 dozens.
'George and Lizzie' proves Nancy Pearl can also be a storytellerCelebrity librarian Pearl - best known for her book recommendations 鈥� comes out with her first novel.