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'The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet'
Reif Larsen talked to The Globe about his debut novel.
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Literary tour of Boston
Boston has been the backdrop for many books — plan your tour with our guide.
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Boston area author visits, July 5-11
By Judith Maas MONDAY: Joey Kramer signs “Hit Hard,” at...
best sellers
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Outliers
By Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown.
2. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
By Steve Harvey. Amistad.
3. The Last Lecture
By Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow. Hyperion.
4. The Girls From Ames
By Jeffrey Zaslow. Gotham.
5. The Third Reich at War
By Richard J. Evans. Penguin.
Hardcover Fiction
1. Scarecrow
By Michael Connelly. Little, Brown.
2. Eclipse
By Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown.
3. The Last Olympian
By Rick Riordan. Disney Hyperion.
4. Breaking Dawn
By Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown.
5. Pygmy
By Chuck Palahniuk. Doubleday.
100 New England books
How many have you read? "Charlotte's Web" makes our list. Browse the other 99, rate the titles, and see how your reading list stacks up.
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Restrictive gateway to land of the free
Vincent J. Cannato's "American Passages" looks at immigration restrictions at Ellis Island.
BOOK REVIEW ‘How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll’ looks beyond the pop charts (By Carlo Wolff, Globe Correspondent)
THREE TO SEE Authors to talk about books dealing with suicide, the Beatles, and Satchel Paige (By Jim Concannon, Globe Staff)
The sijo poetry form captures a Harvard professor’s imagination (By Irene Sege, Globe Staff)
Let the muse move you to write a sijo for boston.com (By Irene Sege, Globe Staff)
Three of David McCann’s sijos (Boston Globe)
BOOK REVIEW ‘Invisible History’ offers a conspiracy-laden look at Afghanistan (By Kenneth J. Cooper, Globe Correspondent)
Vermont bookstore thriving on experiment with self-publishing (By D.C. Denison, Globe Staff)
BOOK REVIEW 'Satchel' traces the life of a trailblazing baseball showman and star (By Bill Nowlin, Boston Globe)
In ‘The Last Supper,’ author sweeps her family off to adventure in Italy (By Amanda Heller, Globe Correspondent)
‘Finest Hours’ resurrects drama of 1952 sea rescue by Coast Guard (By Rachel Lebeaux, Globe Correspondent)
‘And Then There’s This’ explores chaotic, democratizing power of Internet (By Steve Weinberg, Globe Correspondent)
A Reading Life ‘Niki: The Story of a Dog’ recounts fragile ties of love, loyalty in post-war Hungary (By Katherine A. Powers, Globe Correspondent)
Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' goes back into oven (By Motoko Rich, New York Times)
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