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In Andrew Bomback's illuminating new book, Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting, the physician and writer investigates the factors that have made parenting so incredibly hard [...]

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas made headlines when he came out as an undocumented U.S. citizen in 2011. In his recent memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen [...]

Sociologist Eric Klinenberg's Palaces forThe People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (2018) persuasively and forcefully argues that the strength of communities [...]

As podcasts have further embedded themselves Into popular culture, public libraries have become active producers of podcast content, through both workshops for patrons and library-hosted programs. At their base level, [...]

With 'The Conductors,' Nicole Glover creates a fascinating alternate reality--a Reconstruction-era Philadelphia where magic exists and is regulated by the government--in which readers will want to get lost. Hettie Rhodes, [...]

Avi Steinberg was a few years out of Harvard when he unexpectedly found himself working as a prison librarian in Boston. His account of his experiences, Running the Books: The [...]

POSTED DECEMBER 19, 2019 For over fifty years, Paul Theroux has set the gold standard for travel writing. Now in his seventies, he remains as curious and fearless as ever, [...]

Zachary Loeb is a New York City public librarian who volunteers at The Occupy Wall Street Library (OWSL), called The People's Library. The library (which contained more than 5,000 items [...]

Anchee Min, a famous writer who immigrated to America in 1984 explored topics that had gone ignored by contemporary Chinese historians. She discusses about some of her books such as Becoming Madame Mao and Empress Orchid, which examine the lives of two key Chinese women in the twentieth century who had previously demonized by Chinese historians.

Respected reporter and essayist Anne Fadiman's work has appeared in several prestigious publications, while her first book, 'The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down', earned her a National Book Critics Circle Award. Fadiman discusses the influences on her writing, her work, and her new position as The Francis Writer in Residence at Yale.

Jade Chang's novel The Wangs Vs. The World traces the rollicking road trip of a brilliant family. The story kicks off when Charles Wang, a wealthy industrialist, loses all his [...]

More than 100 continuing. education programs will be offered during the Public Library Association's Ninth National Conference, 'PLA 2002,' to be held March 12-16 in Phoenix. Utilizing PLA's educational track [...]

Stahl, Jerry. Plainclothes Naked. Nov. 2001. 336p. Morrow, $25 (0-06-018556-2). Stahl, author of the critically acclaimed Permanent Midnight (1995), uses his flair for dark comedy to create this hard-boiled crime [...]

Benson, Jackson J. Down by the Lemonade Springs: Essays on Wallace Stegner. Oct. 2001. 184p. Univ. of Nevada, paper, $24.95 (0-87417-446-5). 813. In this thoughtful and well-researched biography, Benson follows [...]

Tarlton, John S. The Cost of Doing Business. Oct. 2001. 184p. Bridge Works, $22.95 (1-882593-42-1). Diane Morris, the sly and perceptive heroine of John Tarlton's second novel, certainly has her [...]

Bradford, Arthur. Dogwalker. Aug. 2001. 160p. Knopf, $20 (0-375-41232-8). Bradford, an acclaimed short story writer whose work has previously appeared in McSweeney's and Esquire, makes an assured debut with this [...]

Bainbridge, Beryl. According to Queeney. Aug. 2001. 224p. Carroll &Graf, $22 (0-78670773-9). Bainbridge, a five-time Booker Prize nominee, visits a new era of history in her latest novel and emerges [...]

Tosches, Nick. Where Dead Voices Gather. Aug. 2001. 320p. Little, Brown, $24.95 (0-316-89507-5). 782.42164. In his exhaustively researched new biography, Vanity Fair contributing editor Tosches, author of Dino (1992) and [...]

Wisenberg, S. L. The Sweetheart Is In. June 2001. 168p. Northwestern Univ./ TriQuarterly, $49.95 (0-8101-5108-1); paper, $17.95 (0-8101-5124-3). Wisenberg presents a tart first collection of short stories concerned with the [...]

Roley, Brian Ascalon. American Son. May 2001. 256p. Norton, paper, $13 (0-393-32154-1). In his debut novel, Roley details the Filipino immigrant experience through the troubled relationship between two brothers and [...]

Stockwin, Julian. Kydd. June 2001. 256p. Scribner, $24 (0-7432-1458-7). When wig maker Tom Kydd is impressed into the British navy, he finds himself ill prepared to endure the rigors of [...]

Eickhoff, Randy Lee. The Destruction of the Inn. Mar. 2001. 288p. Tor/Forge, $23.95 (0-312-87026-4). In this translation of a famous Irish epic, Eickhoff brings this rousing adventure tale to a […]

Fleming, Thomas. When This Cruel War Is Over. Mar. 2001. 304p. Tor/Forge, $24.95 (0-312-87204-6). In the last year of the Civil War, head-strong southern belle Janet Todd secretly works to [...]

Sebbar, Leila. Silence on the Shores. Tr. by Mildred Mortimer. Jan. 2001.96p. Univ. of Nebraska, $40 (0-8032-4285-9); paper, $15 (0-8032-9276-7). Tracing the last day in the life of an Algerian [...]

Lugones, Leopoldo. Strange Forces. Tr. by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert. Jan. 2001. 112p. Latin American Literary Review, paper, $13.95 (1-891270-05-2). This collection of short stories, originally published in 1906 in the author's [...]

Varsavsky, Paula. No One Said a Word. Tr. by Anne McLean. Oct. 2000. 150p. Ontario Review; dist. by Braziller, $22.95 (0-888-71099-6). Varsavsky, a respected journalist in her native Argentina, makes [...]

Membership in the Public Library Association has benefits: a subscription to Public Libraries magazine, discounts on continuing education and PLA publications, unlimited opportunities for networking and committee involvement, professional recognition [...]

Kurlansky, Mark. The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories. Oct. 2000. 336p. illus. Pocket/Washington Square, $23.95 (0-671-03605-X). Readers familiar with Kurlansky's acclaimed nonfiction will appreciate the dexterity with [...]

Panella, Vincent. Cutter's Island: Caesar in Captivity. Sept. 2000. 192p. Academy Chicago, $23 (0-89733-484-1). Taking a little-known event in Julius Caesar's life (a kidnapping by pirates at age 25), Panella [...]

Nicholson, Geoff. Female Ruins. June 2000. 204p. Overlook; dist. by Viking, $24.95 (1-58567-036-7). Kelly Howell, the daughter of an architect renowned for the brilliant designs he never built, has found […]

Stevens, David. The Waters of Babylon. Apr. 2000. 320p. Simon & Schuster, $24 (0-684-86210-7). Taking what few documented facts exist about T. E. Lawrence's post-World War I experiences, Stevens creates [...]

Mahfouz, Naguib. Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth. Tr. by Tagreid Abu-Hassabo. Mar. 2000. 192p. Doubleday/Anchor, paper, $12 (0-385-49909-4). In a novel set during the eleventh century B.C., Mahfouz details the story […]

Peres da Costa, Suneeta. Homework. Bloomsbury USA; dist. by St. Martin's. Sept. 1999. 288p. $23.95 (1-58234-060-9). In Peres da Costa's deeply affecting debut novel, Mina Pereira navigates an adolescence that [...]

Redd, Louise. Hangover Soup. Aug. 1999. 272p. Little, Brown, $22.50 (0-316-47900-4). Shortly after summoning the courage to leave her alcoholic husband, Faith Abbot takes a drastic turn for the worse. [...]

Cezair-Thompson, Margaret. The True History of Paradise. Aug. 1999. 352p. Dutton, $24.95 (0-525-94490-7). Over the course of a highly charged Easter weekend, Jean struggles to reconcile her enigmatic sister's suicide [...]

Clifford, Barry and Perry, Paul. Expedition WHYDAH: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her. June 1999. 288p. index, illus. [...]

With the proliferation of twenty-four-hour news channels, social media, and other online sources of information, today's citizens are in the privileged position of having unfettered access to current events. Yet [...]

June 2003. 176p. Villard, $18.95 (1-4000-6056-7). In this grim and assured debut, Spiegelman takes the reader on a nightmarish tour of the drug-fueled subculture of Queens. Leon Koch, a recent [...]

Apr. 2003. 192p. Houghton/Mariner, paper, $12 (0-618-26925-8). In her debut short story collection, Cummins details the lives of characters that exist on the periphery, whether it be geographically, socially, or [...]

Roper, Martin. Gone. Feb. 2002. 223p. Holt, $23 (0-8050-6775-2). Still reeling from the death of his sister, Stephen, a young Irish writer, soon has to deal with the dissolution of [...]