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'The World to Come' blends history and fiction in a short story collectionJim Shepard's work is an astonishingly powerful demonstration of fiction鈥檚 capacity to transport us across time and space.
'A Land Without Borders' rethinks the two-state solution in the Middle EastMarking the 50-year anniversary of Israel鈥檚 occupation of the West Bank, a Jewish activist travels the Middle East in search of answers.
'The Confessions of Young Nero' skillfully reshapes the image of NeroIn a historical novel that makes for delightful reading, best-selling writer Margaret George gives her readers a more sensitive, introspective version of teen-heartthrob Nero.
Finally 鈥� giving women artists their dueIn 'Broad Strokes,' historian Bridget Quinn remembers forgotten female painters and sculptors.
Bestselling books the week of 3/23/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
'No One Cares About Crazy People' cries for more attention for the mentally illPulitzer Prize-winning writer Ron Powers draws on heart-wrenching personal experience in writing about the way society treats the mentally ill.
'A Colony in a Nation' describes a colony of the unfree within the USJournalist Chris Hayes argues that some US politicians and law enforcement officials act as if whole areas of America constitute a separate realm of less value where different rules apply.
'Silly Symphonies Volume 2' delights with more classic Disney comic stripsThis is a handsome book with lots of extras to enhance the marvelous comic strips.
'This Long Pursuit' is a biographer's paean to his craftIn the most pleasing possible way, biographer Richard Holmes comes across in his own collected writing as contagiously curious, casually erudite, and just a bit daft.
Bestselling books the week of 3/16/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best at bookstores across America.
'Fallen Glory' explores the most famous buildings that no longer existScottish historian James Crawford finds meaning in lost landmarks.
Remembering Robert James Waller 鈥� beyond 'The Bridges of Madison County'When my local library was selling off discarded volumes for a penny apiece, I wasn鈥檛 inclined to take one of the castoffs, Waller鈥檚 'Old Songs in a New Caf茅,' home with me. But I鈥檓 glad I did.
'March 1917' follows Russia and the US in a year that shaped the futureJournalist Will Englund suggests that World War I set both the United States and Russia on the paths they would follow for the next century.
'Temporary People' depicts the lives of guest workers in the UAENovelist Deepak Unnikrishnan tells tales of 'people from elsewhere' who live as perpetual foreigners, often in fear, with precarious futures.
Three terrific new novels for young readersNothing signals spring better than a newly-published crop of books. These three novels for middle-grade readers (ages 8-14), feature interesting young narrators and strong, unique stories.
Kids interrupting a BBC interview? Great writers wouldn't be surprised.South Korean political expert Robert Kelly went viral after an epic on-the-job encounter with his very young and very lively children.
'No Friend But the Mountains' asks why war is so often waged on mountainsWar correspondent Judith Matloff travels the world, exploring the many conflicts that have erupted at high altitude.
'South and West' pulls together jottings made by Joan Didion while travelingReaders would do well to follow the route mapped out in 'South and West': to be inquisitive about those with whom they seem to have nothing in common, including electoral preferences.
'The Devil's Mercedes' investigates a pair of notorious Nazi limosA major question surrounded both cars 鈥� which Nazi had used them?
Bestselling books the week of 3/9/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best at independent bookstores all across America.