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- Scholastic pulls slavery book
The controversy has sparked a debate about producing children's literature that offers a nuanced view of slavery and that is able to ask uncomfortable questions without stifling a conversation on one of the nation's darkest chapters.
- Bestselling books the week of 1/17/16, according to IndieBound* What's selling best in independent bookstores across America?
- 'Their Promised Land' follows the author's grandparents in wartime England
The descendants of German Jewish emigre families, Bernard and 'Win' both pride themselves from the beginning on their assimilated British status.
- 'The Road to Little Dribbling': yet another chance to walk with Bill Bryson
Bryson walks the length of his adopted country, lamenting as he goes.
- 'But You Did Not Come Back' recalls a father lost to the Holocaust
Marceline Loridan-Ivens writes a love letter her father and begs readers not to forget the victims of atrocity.
- 'The Invention of Nature' positions Alexander von Humboldt as the godfather of environmentalism
Over the course of his life, however, Humboldt would slowly upend the Enlightenment idea of nature he was taught.
- Bestselling books the week of 1/10/16, according to IndieBound* What's selling best in independent bookstores across America?