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'Riverine' is the memoir of a writer who cannot slip free of her pastAngela Palm's intriguing book is filled with sharp analysis of the relationship between place, social status, and ethos.聽
'Somme' puts a human face on a massive military catastropheAcclaimed historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore studies the whole breadth of the Somme debacle of World War I.
Bestselling books the week of 8/18/16, according to IndieBound What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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'Learning to Swear in America' features lively characters, exciting astrophysicsKatie Kennedy鈥檚 firecracker novel about culture shock, astrophysics, and maybe the聽end of the world, is a page-turner.聽
Roald Dahl: back in the spotlightSteven Spielberg鈥檚 new film adaptation of a Roald Dahl story has Dahl being remembered as a children's book author with a dark sense of humor. But his stories for adults are typically more macabre.聽
'Another Brooklyn' tells of growing up female, black in 1970s BrooklynIn her trademark lyrical prose, Jacqueline Woodson reflects on the dramas and traumas of growing up in pre-gentrification Brooklyn.
'The House at the Edge of Night' makes a dreamy vacation readOn a mystic island south and east of Sicily, a spurned doctor and his family turn their home into a convivial gathering place for locals.
Do book lovers live longer?Regular book reading appears to promote a 'significant survival advantage,' says a Yale University study.
'To the Bright Edge of the World' hauntingly portrays Alaskan wildernessEowyn Ivey's second novel set in Alaska in 1885 follows a married couple into parallel tribulations, as he explores the wilderness and she faces a difficult pregnancy.
How Jimmy Carter became the best ex-presidentDepressed and isolated after his loss to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election, Carter found a new mission and changed the world
'How the Post Office Created America' is a love letter to an institution in perilGallagher argues that far from merely聽existing as an important part of American society, the post office actually shaped American history and聽did much to create the United States that we know today.
Bestselling books the week of Aug.11, 2016, according to IndieBound What's selling best in independent bookstores across America?
'The Underground Railroad' tells a disturbingly real story of slaveryNovelist Colson Whitehead depicts the perversions and horrors of slavery in 19th-century America through the story of the multiple escape attempts of a woman named Cora.- How much do you know about young adult novels?
From supernatural romance to intergalactic and post-apocalyptic adventures, young adult novels are some of the hottest and bestselling literary works in the world today. Let's see how much you know about these page-turners.聽
Why am I always hungry when I read?I have come to connect reading with food 鈥� a bond that grows particularly strong in summer.
'Lions' is an evocative novel of place, set on the brooding frontierPretty Leigh Ransom and handsome Gordon Walker are in love and planning to head soon to college. But can anyone really leave a town like Lions?
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鈥楬ave you no sense of decency?' - who said it first and whyAs Trump faces fire, a look back at the words that shook Joseph McCarthy.
'I Shot the Buddah' revisits Siri Paiboun, solving crimes in late 1970s Laos'I Shot the Buddha' has a chewy heft, in the fine tradition of its 10 siblings in the 'Siri Paiboun' series: history, geopolitics, chromatic characters, genus loci, the human condition, and the pilgrim鈥檚 progress.