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- Bestselling books the week of 4/12/15, according to IndieBound* What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
- Most challenged books: what do they say about us?
The American Library Association's 2014 list of most banned books may be indicative of contemporary concerns.
- 'Odysseus Abroad' views 'heroism' in the Age of Thatcher with gentle irony
A 22-year-old Indian-born man wakes up on an average day in his 1985 London studio apartment and sets off on a journey to see his uncle.
- Reader recommendation: Just Mercy
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- J.K. Rowling: why failure is essential to success
'You will fail,' says 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling, talking about her new book 'Very Good Lives.' 'That's inevitable. It's what you do with it.'
- John Wilkes Booth: history's most charming assassin?
‘Fortune’s Fool,’ the first-ever biography of John Wilkes Booth, portrays Lincoln's assassin as charismatic, talented, and overcome with hatred and rage.
- Guenther Grass remembered for Nobel-winning Nazi-era literature, his own past
A trained sculptor, Grass made his literary reputation with "The Tin Drum," published in 1959.
- 'The Discreet Hero' spins extortion, arson, adultery, and mysticism into literary fiction
Master of political intrigue and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa crafts a thriller of extortion and revenge on Peru’s northern coast.
- Reader recommendation: Impact Player
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- 'Dead Wake’ author Erik Larson talks about history, hubris, and the Lusitania
In an interview with the Monitor, Larson says history has taught him that 'any time we find ourselves expressing smug confidence about things that will or will not happen, we need to take warning.'