The 768-page book is the most anticipated presidential memoir in memory.
Here's a roundup of a half-dozen paperbacks, of various genres, to provide ample diversion as people continue to hunker down at home.
No. 15 in Louise Penny's beloved series featuring the French-Canadian village of Three Pines and gentleman detective Armand Gamache, “A Better…
Jonathan Coe’s timely novel, winner of the Costa Novel Award, is set in a contemporary Britain torn apart by Brexit debate. “While we want eve…
Winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award, Saeed Jones’ book describes his own coming of age as a gay Black man in the American …
Steph Cha’s book, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, follows two L.A. families — one Korean American, one Black — in the aftermath of…
Journalist/author Lisa Taddeo spent years researching this nonfiction book, which examines the sexual lives of three American women. “The book…
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Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for nonfiction, Sarah Broom’s mesmerizing memoir tells the story of a house, and of the lives that flow…
The public is invited to join Humanities Iowa speaker Dan Kaercher at the Council Bluffs Public Library, 400 Willow Ave., for his presentation…
To slake your thirst for a summer read and to satisfy your curiosity about the people who shaped the United States, here are 10 biographies yo…
There’s a fundraising push for the Cari Farver Memorial Scholarship Fund as a new book about the Macedonia woman’s case debuts — and as the fi…
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“The Story of Gardening,” by Penelope Hobhouse and Ambra Edwards (Princeton Architectural Press)
Supper clubs have been around for many years, one in Iowa just celebrated their 100th birthday. Author Megan Bannister made sure that the peop…
Here are 10 books set in hot weather or steamy locations that might help you cool down. Or maybe they’ll just make you hotter. Crank the AC, a…
