New collections of classic comics, including “Peanuts,”“Bloom County” and “Popeye.”

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A riveting account of the flawed leadership, bad luck and virulent personalities that led to the 2006 murder of an entire Iraqi family by American soldiers.

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Vietcong guerrillas capture a female reporter in this vivid Vietnam War novel.

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With an assist from others’ quotations, David Shields argues that our deep need for reality is not being met by the old and crumbling models of literature.

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This “character driven” account of two centuries of religious combat is the best recent history of the Crusades.

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A science writer addresses the question: What makes a sage?

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As death draws near, Chang-rae Lee’s heroine, a Korean War orphan who now lives in New York, sets off for Europe to look for her wayward son.

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A journalist’s adventures in the world of taxidermy, where she observes the art of incising, skinning, sculpturing and reassembling.

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The boldness and the folly of the explorers who sought the Northwest Passage.

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Health care and bank accounts loom large in Lionel Shriver’s multifaceted 10th novel, in which plans, relationships and families are changed by illness.

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Gina Ochsner’s first novel links the grim anomie of post-Soviet Russia to the delirium of magic realism.

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This darkly humorous satiric novel, a witty paean to white-collar loserdom, stars a deeply cynical academic fund-raiser fighting for his job.

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In Danielle Trussoni’s rousing novel, a young nun is drawn into an ancient struggle against the Nephilim, hybrid offspring of humans and heavenly beings.

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In John Banville’s novel, a crew of Greek deities attends a mathematician’s deathbed.

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Modern profiles and historical sketches animate a moonshine enthusiast’s study of homemade liquor.

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A philosopher and psychoanalyst documents the stories of veterans and brings a dual perspective to the experience of war.

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The life and hard times of the country singer Tammy Wynette.

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Helen Simonson mischievously unleashes stock village-novel characters into a new England.

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An exploration of the world of libraries and librarians, via a tour of eccentric characters and unlikely locations.

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Christopher de Bellaigue investigates the bewildering historical entanglements in which Turkey is ensnared.

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Christopher de Bellaigue investigates the bewildering historical entanglements in which Turkey is ensnared.

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A philosopher and psychoanalyst documents the stories of veterans and brings a dual perspective to the experience of war.

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In Danielle Trussoni’s rousing novel, a young nun is drawn into an ancient struggle against the Nephilim, hybrid offspring of humans and heavenly beings.

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Helen Simonson mischievously unleashes stock village-novel characters into a new England.

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An exploration of the world of libraries and librarians, via a tour of eccentric characters and unlikely locations.

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