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- 'Vanessa and her Sister' gives a voice to Virginia Woolf's caring sibling
Priya Parmar's splendid novel imagines the thankless task of catering to the self-absorbed geniuses of the Bloomsbury group.
- Reader recommendation: The Town that Forgot How to Breathe
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- Bestselling books the week of 1/22/15, according to IndieBound What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
- 'Mortdecai': The books by Kyril Bonfiglioli come to the big screen
'Mortdecai' stars Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Paul Bettany.
- National Readathon Day: Here's what you need to know
National Readathon Day is being held for the first time on Jan. 24. It's sponsored by publisher Penguin Random House and the National Book Foundation, among others.
- 'The Match Girl and the Heiress' profiles an unlikely duo in search of a better world
How a factory worker and an heiress united to fight for their ideals.
- Reader recommendation: Russia in Private
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- 'Gateway to Freedom' offers new insight into the workings of the Underground Railroad
A historian looks more closely at the network that liberated thousands.
- Reader recommendation: Meditations
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- Oscars 2015 nominations: Here are some of the nominees that came from books
Oscar nominees like 'American Sniper' and 'The Theory of Everything' were inspired by the written word.
- Lemony Snicket's 'All the Wrong Questions' series will be personalized for young readers
The third book in the 'Questions' series, 'Shouldn't You Be in School?,' was released this past September.
- 'Khirbet Khizeh' is a haunting fictional take on the Arab-Israeli war
An Israeli novelist offers an unsettling look at the paradoxes of a conflict.