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'Dark at the Crossing' tells a compelling story set against the war in SyriaElliot Ackerman, who also wrote the critically acclaimed novel 'Green on Blue,' served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, earning a Silver Star, a Bronze Star for Valor, and a Purple Heart.
Is fraud an American tradition?Edward J. Balleisen, author of 'Fraud,' says America鈥檚 embrace of democracy has eased the path for some charismatic pitchmen of fraudulent schemes.
'The Age of Caesar' collects new translations of five Plutarch biosThe works in this volume form an astute grouping of figures whose interwoven families and fortunes shaped much of the political history of the Roman world in the first century BC.
'The Sun is Also a Star' is a huge YA success and a new classicThe lives of two immigrants teens collide in NYC 鈥� despite impossible odds and with unimaginable potential.
'Bill Clinton' is a balanced assessment of the 42nd president鈥檚 tenure'Bill Clinton,' like the rest of the excellent 'American Presidents' series, offers a quick sketch of early life and career, and then a thoughtful overview of time in office.聽
'The Bear and the Nightingale' charms with a tale set in in 14th-century RusKatherine Arden's debut novel features a clever, stalwart protagonist, determined to forge her own path in a time when women had few choices.
Is social media making the young less happy?'The Happiness Effect' author Donna Freitas answers questions on the role that social media plays in the social, professional, religious, and emotional lives of the young.
Bestselling books the week of 1/26/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
3 new Obama biographies by unabashed supportersAll three books have the same basic story to tell: how the nation's 44th president took office against the most openly stated across-the-board Congressional opposition of a generation.
'Rumi's Secret' offers an expanded view of the 13th-century poet and mysticThe Rumi we know today might never have emerged, if not for three profound friendships.
'The Book that Changed America' tells the deeper story of Darwin in the USDarwin's theories of evolution and natural selection would challenge the racial superiority of slavery and mold the minds of transcendentalists.
DC Universe Rebirth breathes new life and fun into classic comic storylinesNew Graphic Novels collect the relaunched Superman, Green Arrow, Aquaman, and Batman comics.
'Dorothy Day,' portrayed by her granddaughter, is a hero but not a saintDay's youngest granddaughter Kate Hennessy calls her searching biography 'a quest to find out who I am through her.'
'84, Charing Cross Road' 鈥� celebrating the best movie ever made about readingThirty years ago, '84, Charing Cross Road' was released, achieving the magic of bringing to life the quiet drama of being lost in a book.
Bestselling books the week of 1/19/17, according to IndieBound What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
'The Cyclist Who Went Out In the Cold' rides the Iron Curtain TrailThe Iron Curtain Trail is a 10,000-km ride through 20 countries along what was the world鈥檚 most extensive expression of divisive hostility.
'Relentless Spirit' looks beyond fame and glory for the story of Missy FranklinThis memoir told alternately by Franklin and her parents is a pull-up-a-chair-to-the kitchen-table retelling of a remarkable family story.
'How America Lost Its Secrets' depicts a darker, complicated Edward SnowdenThe image of Snowden as a brave idealist takes a pounding in this deeply researched biography.
'The Girl in Green' tells a dark, funny, poetic tale of the US in IraqA Desert Storm vet returns to Iraq 20 years later, this time on a mission of hope.
How hard is it to impeach a president? Ask Andrew Johnson.Andrew Johnson dared Congress to go after him, and it did.