All Books
- 'The Vietnam War' co-directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explain why Vietnam is relevant to us today
Burns and Novick call the Vietnam War 'the most consequential event in American history in the second half of the last century.'
- 'A Column of Fire' is half historic epic, half thriller – all of it engaging
Ken Follett returns with the final (we think) Kingsbridge story, now skipping ahead a couple of centuries to the Elizabethan era.
- 12 best books of September 2017, according to Amazon's editors What are some of the best titles to choose as fall begins? Check out Amazon's list.
- 'Border' is a touching meditation on lives shaped by geographic boundaries
After 25 years away, memoirist Kapka Kassabova returns to her childhood home where Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey intersect.
- 10 best books of September: the Monitor's picks Here are the 10 September releases most highly recommended by the Monitor's book critics.
- Hurricane hubris and heroism: Inside 1935's devastating Key West storm
The storm's heroes include a brave train engineer who desperately hustled evacuees out of the hurricane's path, an immigrant from the Bahamas who tried to save his fishing-and-farming clan of more than 60 people, and Ernest Hemingway.
- 'Mozart: The Man Revealed' explores a life infused with as much drama as any opera
Biographer John Suchet does not look closely at Mozart's extraordinary musical creations, but he does provide an engaging glimpse into the life of a remarkable young man and his world.