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- Best of 2014: Seven authors reflect on battles close at hand
A Monitor book critic recalls seven of his favorite author interviews from 2014.
- 'The Name of the Blade' is a tough, sassy mélange of Japanese folklore and modern teen Britain
Mio Yamato inherits her grandfather’s samurai sword – along with a mandate to battle evil.
- 'Beowulf' comes to British TV
The British network ITV is reportedly adapting the epic work.
- 'Blessed Assurance' succeeds as a soaring new biography of playwright Horton Foote
Horton Foote's life and work were so closely intertwined, this biography demonstrates, that it's hard to know where Horton Foote, the man, ends and where Horton Foote, the writer, begins.
- 5 good books I fear I may never read
It's sobering to think of carrying on into next year the weight of all the unread books on one's nightstand.
- 'Fourth of July Creek' is a gritty, disturbing, evocative, and extraordinary debut novel
Henderson Smith’s tale of suffering and the hope of rescue in the northern West is on this critic’s short list of the year’s best fiction.
- 5 pleasures from 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' on the centennial of Dylan Thomas's birth
What Thomas captures beautifully in 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' is the dreamlike quality of Christmases past.
- Can there be a perfect Christmas? Only in the mind of a poet
There may never be a Christmas as perfect as the one you read about in books.
- 'When Books Went to War' tells how paperback books helped to win World War II
Recreational reading boosted morale and celebrated free thought for America’s World War II troops.
- Bestselling books the week of 12/25/14, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.