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Bestselling books the week of 8/3/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Meet the woman who brings Haruki Murakami works to an enthusiastic PolandAnna Zieli艅ska-Elliott is now translating her 12th Murakami novel from Japanese into Polish, as she has done for 30 years. She is a聽professor of Japanese literature at Boston University.
'Sour Heart' author Jenny Zhang illuminates the immigrant's struggles to belongZhang makes her fiction debut with a collection of seven loosely linked stories highlighting the Chinese-American immigrant experience.
'The Cooking Gene' views the African-American experience through its foodCulinary historian Michael W. Twitty manages to document one of America's foundational food cultures in a book that is also moving and deeply personal.
'The Darkening Web' warns of destruction through cyber meansThe implication throughout the book couldn't be clearer: In cyber warfare, there are no civilians.
'The Library of Fates' has clever mythology, delicious languageAditi Khorana's young adult novel聽sets up a stunning premise but falters en route to conclusion.
'American Ulysses' writer Ronald C. White explains why Grant is so often misunderstoodWhite, also the author of the bestselling "A. Lincoln," is receiving the Civil War Forum of New York鈥檚 2017 award for Excellence in Civil War biography.聽
10 best books of July: the Monitor's picksFrom the shores of Walden Pond to the steppes of Siberia, and from Jane Austen's parlor to the fields of an Amish farmer, here are the 10 July titles that most appealed to the Monitor's book critics.
'When the English Fall' envisions the Amish as society's post-apocalyptic saviorsA gentle concern imbues this contemplative novel which imagines the rest of the society turning to the Amish when the power grid fails.
'The Netanyahu Years' portrays a divisive, oddly compelling world leaderThis is the kind of caustic and extremely topical biography that readers would expect to come from a working journalist rather than a professional historian.
'Refuge' is the story of an Iranian family in search of homeDina Nayeri鈥檚 sophomore novel, 'Refuge,' tells a tale of migration and dislocation.
Bestselling books the week of 7/27/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
'The Unwomanly Face of War' records Russian women fighting in WWIISvetlana Alexievich, whose oral histories of Soviet and Russian lives earned her the Nobel Prize for聽Literature, collected the stories of hundreds of Soviet women World War II vets.
'Ants Among Elephants' offers a window into the complexities of IndiaSujatha Gidla's memoir of her mother and uncle is a moving, fascinating story of class struggle in India.
'Modern Gods' is an agile domestic drama, split between Ireland and Papua New GuineaIn Nick Laird's third novel, the everyday drama of a Northern Ireland family is overshadowed by a past that can't quite be left behind.
'Live from Cairo' vividly describes a world where refugees are case numbersIan Bassingthwaighte's debut novel centers on refugees and resettlement officers living in Cairo, as longtime Egyptian president Husni Mubarak steps down.
4 classic audiobooks Four recent audiobooks bring new life to titles that should not be forgotten.
'White Man's Game' details efforts to save Mozambique's Gorongosa Park海角大神 Science Monitor correspondent Stephanie Hanes profiles Boston philanthropist Greg Carr, who fell in love with Gorongosa and launched a campaign to bring its wildlife back.
Bestselling books the week of 7/18/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
'Magpie Murders' author Anthony Horowitz delivers remarkable twist on the classic whodunnitThe聽bestselling British author and screenwriter is making his own bid for detective story immortality with an astonishing Golden Age-style mystery novel.