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Football 2016: a sideline full of 10 new books Those who like to huddle over a good football read have quite a roster to choose from this fall.
Are all campaign books awful? Clinton's certainly doesn't buck the trend'Stronger Together,' like most campaign books, is so poorly produced, it serves no one 鈥� reader, publisher, political party, nor candidate.
'Moscow Nights' recalls Van Cliburn and the power of music to melt the cold warNigel Cliff tells the astonishing, engaging story of how a handsome young Texas piano聽prodigy stole the heart of the enemy.
'Yellowstone,' 'The Hour of the Land' celebrate, examine America's national parksDavid Quammen and Terry Tempest Williams take clear-eyed views of America's national park system.
George W. Bush's portraits of veterans evoke both controversy and praise'Portraits of Courage' 鈥� 66 oil paintings and a four-panel mural of veterans and active service members, all painted by Bush 鈥� will be published early next year.
'Wolf Boys' offers a disturbing insider view of drug dealingThis eye-witness account of drug dealing on the US-Mexico border shocks but fails to address larger questions.
Examining the legacy of the Attica riots, 45 years laterHistorian Heather Ann Thompson finds both horrors and hope in the epic saga of the Attica Prison uprising.
Bestselling books the week of 9/15/16, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
'Avid Reader' is the story of a publishing icon and friend to authorsOver the decades, Robert Gottlieb worked with a veritable Who's Who of 20th-century literary figures.
'Commonwealth,' Ann Patchett's new novel, is a family affairPatchett's latest novel 鈥� her most autobiographical to date 鈥� weaves a wry but compassionate tale of step-siblings forced to become family.
How a new technology can help researchers read closed booksResearchers say the imaging system from MIT, which uses radiation to reveal the pages of a closed book, could help historians access books and documents too fragile to open.
'Astro City, Vol. 13: Honor Guard' features superheroes with heartKurt Busiek's 'Astro City' comic series highlights the humanity behind the masks.
4 powerful novels to help young readers come to terms with 9/11These four middle grade and young adult authors courageously tackle 9/11 in a crop of freshly published novels.
'Pond' is a cool, curious dive into a world of minutiaeClaire-Louise Bennett's unclassifiable work is a 'tumble down a rabbit hole,' taking readers into a world where the drama is in the details.
In 'Whistlestop' John Dickerson looks to history for perspective on campaignsJohn Dickerson tells Monitor contributor Erik Spanberg that he wondered: 'What were the norms and standards that existed for previous [presidential] campaigns?' He looked to history and found that 'it was just so much fun, these stories you come across.'
'Mad Enchantment' is a compelling portrait of Monet and his chef d'艙uvreBiographer Ross King once again puts a human face on the historical narrative of an artistic triumph.
10 best books of September 2016, according to Amazon's editors As fall arrives, what should you be reading? Check out Amazon's full list.
'Virgil Thomson' celebrates Thomson's written words and musical notesThomson鈥檚 uncommon capacity to both create works in a particular art form and to write lucidly about that art form is in evidence throughout the Library of America second collection spotlighting the writer-composer.
Bestselling books the week of 9/8/16, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
'Collected Poems' by Clive James celebrates decades of learning, growthClive James continues to pour forth verse 鈥� as unabashedly alive as ever.