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Wonks will love fall this year. Here is a baker’s dozen political biographies that will soon brighten the windows of Washington bookstores.
What do book lovers have queued up on their nightstands and ready to read before lights-out? We asked a few of them, and here’s what they said.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table at Politics and Prose Friday to say hi, grab a voucher, or just chat about books! Here’s what we discovered while there.
Does your budding bookworm prefer a little non with her fiction? Share a couple of these factoid-filled new titles with her!
We here at the Independent love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. Having said that, here are August’s winners.
It’s back-to-school time! As teens across the country head to English class, they’ll surely be assigned a reading list. Here are five books that should be on it, but probably aren’t.
Have a reluctant middle-grade reader in your life? One of these unique titles just might bring him (or her) around.
In honor of the literary game the late Christopher Hitchens used to play with his friend Salman Rushdie, “Titles That Didn’t Quite Make It,” here are some well-known book names that seem, um, less compelling with just one synonym swapped out.
