Dust Child: A Novel
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A veteran returns to Vietnam to search for those he abandoned.
Sell Us the Rope: A Novel
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Though heavy on facts, this work is light on fiction.

Is the U.S. ready for the coming storm?
Trace & Aura
By Patrick Boucheron; translated by Lara Vergnaud and Willard Wood

A dense, edifying look at an enigmatic holy man.
Savage Journey
By Peter Richardson

How the iconoclastic writer came to embody his alter-ego.
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Sussing out the throughline among popular Gaelic gumshoes.