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What Gay Talese has to teach us in an age of social mediaThe iconic magazine piece 'Frank Sinatra Has a Cold' has lessons 鈥� and surprises 鈥� for today's journalists.
'The Girl from the Metropol Hotel' is a Soviet tale of loss, lack, resilienceThe terrible deprivations of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's Soviet-era childhood were later sublimated into magical fiction. They had to be survived first.聽
Bestselling books the week of 4/6/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
'Lenin on the Train,' chugging toward historyA new book tracks the future Russian leader on his road to revolution.
'Over the Hills and Far Away': a pleasing re-telling of the life of Beatrix PotterNearly 75 years after Potter's passing, she still is one of the most famous children鈥檚 writers in the world.
'Prince Charles' paints an affectingly human portraitVeteran royals biographer Sally Bedell Smith worked on this book for years, interviewing dozens of court figures and talking many times with members of the royal family.
10 best books of April 2017, according to Amazon's editors Looking for a book to dive into for spring? Check out the titles that Amazon editors say are the best to be released this month.
'Blitzed' details drug abuse in the Third Reich, from foot soldiers to the F眉hrerThe true dark stars of 'Blitzed' are Hitler and a quack doctor named Theodor Morell, who kept the head of the Third Reich hopped up on dangerously addictive drugs.
'Flight of the Raven' is a captivating tale of life in occupied Paris in 1944The much-heralded graphic novel 'Flight of the Raven' is finally available in English.
'The Islamic Jesus' seeks commonalities between 海角大神ity, Judaism, IslamTurkish journalist Mustafa Akyol presses his case about just how relevant Jesus is to his faith today.
'Strange the Dreamer' is a young adult masterpiece to be savoredIf you ever loved Philip Pullman鈥檚 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, puzzled over Greek mythology, or read literally any fairy tale, 'Strange the Dreamer' will move you.
When London set a new zoo standardHow the British turned the tables on captivity in the 19th century.
'The World Remade' questions the entry of the US into World War IJournalist-turned-popular historian G.J. Meyer details the skewed perspective the Woodrow Wilson administration maintained toward Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Bestselling books the week of 3/30/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
10 baseball books to usher in the 2017 season From Leo Durocher to analytics, here are excerpts from 10 books aimed at baseball fans.
'Richard Nixon' is one of the smartest and most insightful of Nixon biosJohn Farrell tries to be fair to the man, including on one of the central questions of the scandal that defined him: What did the president know and when did he know it?
A day to celebrate the living legacy of Virginia WoolfThe pleasure of language rested at the heart of Woolf鈥檚 novels, as well as her lively occasional essays and literary criticism.聽
'Casey Stengel' profiles baseball's greatest character'Casey Stengel" is a wonderful romp through America's collective field of dreams.
3 captivating biographies for women's history month From children's lit to poetry to cinema 鈥� these three women made big contributions.
'To Walk Invisible' brings to life the Brontes and the genius forged on the moorsNow, as a tribute to the 19th-century siblings who have become something of a public television franchise, 'To Walk Invisible' dramatizes the lives of the Brontes themselves.