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#1638: Gail Collins’ “When Everything Changed” and “America’s Women”
New York Times columnist Gail Collins has written a new book on a subject that is timelier than ever: women and aging in America....
#1637: Elizabeth Strout’s “Olive, Again”
Olive Kitteridge, the funny, wicked, remorseful and gruff woman who was the propelling force in Elizabeth Strout’s book of short stories “Olive Kitteridge” –...
#1636: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777”
Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson, who wrote the best-selling “Liberation” trilogy about the American effort in Europe during the Second World War, has now...
#1635: Sean Penn’s “Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn”
Sean Penn won Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performances in “Mystic River” and “Milk.” He is also a novelist. His debut novel...
#1634: Alice Hoffman’s “The World That We Knew”
Alice Hoffman’s latest book is a bittersweet parable about the costs of survival and the behaviors that define humanity. “The World That We Knew”...
#1631: Eliza Griswold’s “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America”
For seven years, journalist and New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold reported and wrote the story of how fracking in southwestern Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale forever...