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- 'Bringing Columbia Home' is a grimly captivating new history of the loss of the space shuttle Columbia
Authors Michael Leinbach and Jonathan Ward set their account apart from other 'Columbia' books by following the story from its central tragedy to its almost unthinkably sad immediate aftermath.
- 'Winter' is Karl Ove Knausgaard's attempt to make you see things anew
Knausgaard's essays are naive, charming, and eye-opening.
- 'Tears of Salt' is a deeply moving, first-hand response to Italy's refugee crisis
As a doctor on Italy's southernmost island, Pietro Bartolo has a front-row seat to one of the world's most horrifying spectacles.
- 5 new titles to check out in the New Year
Among the flood of 2018 book releases, here are five particularly fine new titles.
- How a book by a White House insider made waves ... in 1868
Exactly 150 years ago, another insider account captivated the nation by exposing the secret inner workings of the White House. That one was from seamstress Elizabeth 'Lizzy' Keckley, a former slave who became Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker.
- 'Munich' dramatizes one of the turning points of World War II
Robert Harris's book centers on the Munich conference held in September 1938 in which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Hitler in one last desperate attempt to forestall a general European war.
- 'Fools and Mortals' finds Shakespeare's brother taking center stage
As in all the best historical fiction, readers will come away with a seminar's-worth of historical knowledge without feeling like they did any heavy lifting.
- 'The Square and the Tower' considers the staggering power of networks
'The Square and the Tower' gains in fascination as it tells its stories, considering networks ranging from the Mafia to the Soviet Union of Stalin.
- 'The Music Shop' celebrates the resilience of ordinary people and the healing power of music
'The Music Shop' is less melancholy than Rachel Joyce’s 2012 debut 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,' but still tends to a minor key.