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Bestselling books the week of 10/21/16, according to IndieBound What's selling best at independent bookstores across America?
Can Republicans, Democrats find common ground in 'bridge books'?A pair of researchers suggests political foes may find reconciliation in books.
'Today Will Be Different' is absolutely delicious black comedyThe latest novel by Maria Semple (author of bestselling 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette?') stars a mom who aspires to getting out of her yoga pants.
'Upstream' places poet Mary Oliver in her 'arena of delight'This collection of essays by Oliver is a testament to a lifetime of paying attention.
4 audiobooks for fall A Shakespeare retelling, a dramatic nonfiction story from Mali, and two celebrity chef memoirs are among the season's new audiobook releases.
'The Trespasser': Tana French scores again in 'Dublin Murder Squad' seriesOnce again, French presents a taut detective drama in which everyone is guilty of something.
What did Bobby Kennedy do when the going got rough? He read.Feeling stressed about US politics? Maybe you should take a break and read. RFK would have.
'The Conservative Case for Trump': Is there one?Three noted conservatives work hard to paint Trump as a contemporary Ronald Reagan. 聽
'The Durrells in Corfu': PBS adapts Gerald Durrell鈥檚 'Corfu' trilogyGerald Durrell was a British naturalist whose passion for animals blossomed when his oddball family, headed by his widowed mother, decided to leave England for Greece, hoping for milder weather, new adventures, and a cheaper cost of living.
'Reputations' tells of a political cartoonist, haunted for decades by the events of a single nightIn聽V谩squez's new novel, the protagonist thinks of Colombia as an 'amnesiac country obsessed with the present, a 'narcissistic country where not even the dead are capable of burying their dead.'
Young boys practice reading out loud 鈥� to their barbers?Barbershop Books hopes to make good use of time spent in the barber's chair to connect young boys to books.
'Hero of the Empire' wonderfully recreates the epic of a young ChurchillCandice Millard's account of Churchill's capture and imprisonment while in Africa covering the Boer War as a journalist is vivid and full of life.
Bob Dylan lyrics as literature: First songwriter to win a Nobel PrizeBob Dylan:聽The legendary folk singer and songwriter won the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving recognition for his poetic lyrics.
'Worst President Ever' names a name: James BuchananAlthough highly qualified for the job, James Buchanan failed massively as 15th president of the United States. Journalist and author Robert Strauss explains why.
Bestselling books the week of 10/13/16, according to IndieBound What's selling best at independent bookstores across America?
'Napoleon's Island' is a mesmerizing portrait of the deposed emperorThis deft, engaging historic novel makes delightfully good use of Napoleon's six dreary years of final exile.
'Forty Autumns' tells of one family, divided for decades by the Berlin WallAn American intelligence officer dramatizes the dangers and heartbreaks of a divided Germany by telling the story of her family, particularly her grandparents.
'Bolshoi Confidential' weaves history, scandal, art into a compelling surveyMorrison, who is a professor of music at Princeton University, gives the story of the Bolshoi a first-rate historical treatment.
'Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939' is the richest, most convincing portrait yetAfter Ian Kershaw's universally praised similar 1998 biography, do readers really need another Hitler study? The answer is yes.
Unmasking Elena Ferrante: why privacy mattersAfter a long period of speculation, Italy's most famously anonymous novelist may now be facing the furor of public scrutiny.