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Favorites from the Holiday Newsletter

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Thursday, December 8
5 p.m. The Clockwork Prince, by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry, $19.99) and

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, by Michelle Hodkin (Simon & Schuster, $16.99)
at Bethesda Library
7400 Arlington Rd., Bethesda, MD


Thursday, December 8
7 p.m. John Lewis Gaddis - George F. Kennan: An American Life (Penguin Press, $39.95)

Announcing a ticketed event for teens:
Friday, January 13
7 p.m. John and Hank Green - The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton, $17.99)
at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda
7400 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD


The Scoop from Brad and Lissa


Newsletters

The 2011 P&P Holiday Newsletter and Children’s Winter Favorites are filled with our many recommendations and suggestions for reading and gift-giving. Click to download the pdfs or visit the store to pick up your copies. Each year we highlight ten outstanding books. The following five novels and five works of nonfiction are the store’s 2011 favorites. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have! And don't forget, all of the items included in the holiday newsletter are discounted to all of our 8500 members all month long.

FICTION

Favorite 1A novel that can make you laugh, cry, and stand up and cheer, The Art of Fielding (Little, Brown, $25.99) by Chad Harbach is a smart, funny, big-hearted story. Henry Skrimshander is a sure-handed shortstop from a small town recruited by the team’s captain to join the squad at fictional Westish College, a Div. 3 school in Wisconsin. His dedication to his position is mystical, owing much to his well-worn copy of the Tao-like Art of Fielding. When the national record for errorless innings is within his grasp, though, and an errant throw nearly kills his room-mate/team-mate/best friend, the irrepressible Owen, everything Henry has taken for granted is thrown into question. One of the most talked about books of this year and for good reason, The Art of Fielding is more than a baseball book. It’s as knowing about relationships as it is about sports. It also displays in equal measure the author’s passions for literature and baseball.

A three-week voyage across the Indian Ocean from Ceylon to London lies at the center of Michael Ondaatje’s novel, The Cat’s Table (Knopf, $26). The title refers to the table farthest away, in physical distance and therefore in social standing, from the captain’s table. One of that table’s regulars is eleven-year-old Michael, who, with his two friends Cassius and Ramadhin, has the adventure of his young life. Whether spying on other passengers, doing the ignominious bidding of eccentric adults, or being shown the mysterious realm below decks, the three find the journey a priceless education. Later, looking back from the vantage point of adulthood, Michael and his friends see that the relationships formed and the experiences shared on the voyage have left an indelible impression on all of them. Ondaatje captures the freedom and brightness of adolescence and brilliantly contrasts them with the responsibilities that come with adulthood.

FavoritesDo you remember college? Jeffrey Eugenides does, and he brings all of the dizzying highs and emotional lows to brilliant life in The Marriage Plot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28), his first novel since he won the Pulitzer Prize for Middlesex ten years ago. Eugenides follows a trio of Brown University students through the early 1980s. Cloistered on Providence’s College Hill, they immerse themselves in literature, philosophy, and semiotics—but how can mere texts help them in love, or in navigating the paralyzing recession they graduate into in 1982? No one makes these themes vibrate as freshly as Eugenides. There is no better send-up of that gorgeously experimental undergraduate phase, when trying on a new identity was as easy as switching your major, and when books really did have the power to change your life.

A master of both the novel (Flaubert’s Parrot, Arthur and George) and the short story (The Lemon Table, Pulse), Julian Barnes may have found his perfect genre with the novella. His brief, conversational, and Man Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending (Random House, $23.95) is a moving meditation on time; it’s also a meticulously constructed work that repays immediate rereading, each incident and conversation gaining meaning and resonance when seen in terms of the whole story. That story focuses on Tony Webster, retired yet suddenly swept up again in the events of some forty years before. He recounts his youthful friendships and an early, fraught relationship with a woman who later took up with his best friend. Tony begins to question what happened and how well he really knew the people he was involved with—let alone himself. As he revises his memories, the novel becomes a deft, subtle study of the elusive effects of time. Tony’s stream of reminiscences is akin to a succession of photos of himself, some comforting, others shocking, that constantly show him as a new and different person, yet also, somehow, the same one.Favorites

The authority and assuredness with which The Tiger’s Wife (Random House, $25) unfolds belies the fact that it’s a first novel written by a twenty-something author. Téa Obreht’s narrator, Natalia, is on a mission to inoculate children at an orphanage in a town once separated from her own by a civil war. While she’s there, she learns of the death of her grandfather, the source of her childhood stories. She informs the reader that “everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man.” Fantastic and fabulous, these powerful stories from Natalia’s grandfather’s childhood make up a large part of the novel. They embody timeless ideas: courage, honor, trust, and, in the story of the deathless man, matters of life and death. As Natalia travels to her grandfather’s hometown, she learns that the stories originated in real events. The juxtaposition between superstition and reality, between magic and medicine, contributes to the richness of this amazing novel.

 


NONFICTION

FavoritesThe best food writing is always about more than food, and that is the case with Blood, Bones, and Butter (Random House, $26), the excellent memoir and first book by Gabrielle Hamilton, the chef and owner of Prune, a popular restaurant in New York City’s East Village. The book is part coming-of-age tale about the pluses and minuses of growing up with artistic and food-loving parents whose divorce ultimately shattered their children’s lives. Beyond recounting her family travails, Hamilton uses her considerable training and skill as a writer to describe how a succession of food experiences (including hunger) led her to open a restaurant that would transcend the faddish trends of modern American cooking. A cross between M.F.K Fisher and Patti Smith? Sort of. Hamilton’s book will appeal not only to cooks and omnivores, but to anyone who appreciates a well-told story about finding one’s passion and meaning in life.

This vibrant narrative history of political economics from the 1840s to today recasts the dismal science as a Grand Pursuit (Simon & Schuster, $35). Sylvia Nasar covered economics for The New York Times before turning to biography with A Beautiful Mind, and she combines these two areas of expertise to elucidate ideas and investigate the lives they grew out of. Here’s Alfred Marshall, walking Dickens’s London to get a firsthand look at labor conditions. Here’s Marx, hunkered down in libraries. Nasar covers the Great Depression and two world wars, recreating the experiences of Schumpeter, Keynes, Hayek, Fisher, and others as they faced the terrific challenges of avoiding economic ruin once the gunfire had stopped. The book closes with Amartya Sen, a high-caste Bengali, witnessing the horrors of the 1943 famine, partition, and violence, and using ethics to develop a new economics of social welfare. As much an adventure as a history of ideas, Nasar’s book shows economists in action as the “trustees…of the possibilities of civilization.”

FavoritesIn one of this year’s outstanding works of American history, Tony Horwitz recognizes the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry with Midnight Rising (Holt, $29), an absorbing portrait of that revolutionary firebrand. Brown was born into a strict fundamentalist and abolitionist family (his father was an early trustee of the radical new Ohio college, Oberlin) that was never financially secure. Intensely idealistic but domineering and uncompromising, Brown embraced terrorist tactics and finally engaged in a retaliatory massacre in his fight against slavery, carrying out an unrealistic plan to overpower the pro-slavery American government with a force of nineteen men. At the ensuing trial, the verdict was a foregone conclusion, but Horwitz tells the story with dramatic tension; Brown, described by Julia Ward Howe as a “holy and glorious” martyr, was unrepentant, and you can’t help having mixed feelings as Brown climbs to the gallows.

The world into which Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things was reborn in 1417 felt threatened by the ideas expressed there. But The Swerve (W.W. Norton, $26.95) history took in this event, from a God-centered to a material conception of the universe, influenced subsequent thinkers and changed the course of Western culture. In his riveting and suspenseful story of those ideas and their rediscovery, the eminent scholar Stephen Greenblatt, author of the popular Will in the World, recounts how Poggio Bracciolini, a canny and ruthless papal apparatchik, but also an intrepid book hunter with exquisite handwriting, found the only surviving copy of this classical masterpiece secreted in a remote German monastery. Greenblatt, himself heir to the humanistic turn effected by the surfacing of On the Nature of Things, has made narrative central to our understanding of literature and culture and unfailingly finds anecdotes that catch the reflected light of an entire cosmos.

FavoritesIn this engrossing narrative about World War I, Adam Hochschild writes vividly not just about the politicians, generals, and propagandists who pushed for war. He also chronicles the stories of a number of civilians and soldiers who waged a principled if unsuccessful antiwar struggle. To End all Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28) portrays the rush to battle and the inability to stop it as the product largely of entrenched mindsets. He compellingly contrasts the passions and principles of the dissenters with the deeply embedded commitment to war and empire of the war-makers and the majority of the population.

Section contributors: Michael Allen, Bradley Graham, Laurie Greer, Mark LaFramboise, Barbara Meade, Lissa Muscatine, Elizabeth Sher

The Member Sale may be over, but our suggested gifts are still 20% off until December 31. Take a look at the entire publication, there is something for everyone!

- Brad and Lissa

 

 

Book Notes


 

 

A special bonus recommendation

P.D JamesJust arrived!
Death Comes to Pemberley
By P.D. James
(Knopf, $25.95)
20% off for P&P Members

P. D. James masterfully re-creates the world of Pride and Prejudice, electrifying it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted crime story. It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy’s magnificent estate. On the eve of their annual autumn ball, a coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, Elizabeth’s disgraced sister, who with her husband, the very dubious Wickham, has been banned from Pemberley. She stumbles out of the carriage, hysterical, shrieking that Wickham has been murdered. A tale of murder and emotional mayhem as only P.D. James can write it!

 

 

Book Angels for Unity Health Care Pediatrics

Book AngelEvery winter Politics & Prose invites you to participate in our annual Book Angel Program.

This year, we are collecting new books to donate to pediatric patients at Unity Health Care. Unity Health Care, Inc. operates a network of 30 sites and provides primary and specialty healthcare services to underserved populations throughout D.C., including 13 community health centers, and two school-based centers. Unity has a strong commitment to the promotion of literacy and serves approximately 18,000 pediatric patients from birth to 18 years old. 

The Book Angel Program runs through December 31, 2011.  Each book that is purchased for Unity Health Care is discounted 20%.  Take a look at the display in the children's department or click here for a selection of suggested books. If you shop online, please indicate in the order comments field if you are donating a book to Unity Health Care Pediatrics.

 

 

 

 

 

Holiday Gift-wrapping

Washington Literacy

Our ongoing relationship with the Washington Literacy Council continues this holiday season. WLC volunteers will be in the store every day from Thanksgiving to Christmas, from open until close, offering a selection of attractive holiday-themed wrapping papers. The service is free, but donations to support the work of the organization are welcome. For volunteer opportunities (wrapping, or otherwise) please contact Cheryl Kariya at [email protected].

 

Washington Chorus

 

Washington ChorusThursday, December 15, 5 p.m.
Caroling with the Washington Chorus

Join us for holiday caroling with members of the award-winning Washington Chorus led by assistant director John Bohl. The Chorus will sing here at P&P just before its five Christmas concerts, Julian Wachner conducting, at the Kennedy Center and Strathmore. The 2010 CD, Christmas with the Washington Chorus (Dorian, $16.99) is available too. Bring the whole family! Click for information about the concerts.

 

 

Politics & Prose Classes


 

Women in Britain

We have just added a third section to Women in Britain: Sex, Lies, Money, and Power(lessness), taught by Susan Willens and Virginia Newmyer. This will be held from 1-3 p.m. on January 18, February 27, March 21, April 18, and May 11. Click here for more information.

Pairis

And please visit http://www.politics-prose.com/classes/2012-classes to see other 2012 class offerings, including a just-added Tuesday evening session of Paris: A Literary Adventure; the launch of a new series on literature of the suburbs; a survey of  American women’s history; and classes on Eugene O’Neill, Dashiell Hammett, Rohinton Mistry, memoir writing, graphic memoir, knitting, and papier mâché.

 

Sideline of the Week


 

Tote Bag

Politics & Prose is excited to announce (drum roll please) the new 2012 edition P&P tote bag! (Frans Boukas, $16)  Featuring a drawing of the store’s façade by P&P’s very own artistic visionary, this modern tote is big enough to hold all your favorite books. Frans’s fun, fresh illustration on this cool grey tote, made of recycled material (of course), makes a great gift for any bookworm on the go. With so many books and so little time, get a tote and bring a few titles with you on your holiday travels.

  • Mark Moran

Coming Soon to Your Favorite Bookstore


Click www.politics-prose.com/event for our author events calendar through January.

Events

Thursday, December 8, 5 p.m.

Cassandra Clare & Michelle Hodkin
Bethesda Library
7400 Arlington Rd., Bethesda, MD
The Clockwork Prince, by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry, $19.99)
Tessa is a Shadowhunter, seeking out demons disguised as normal people. In this second installment of the Infernal Devices series, the Shadowhunters are imperiled by Mortmain. When Tessa, Will, and Jem try to discover the facts about Mortmain's past, they also find unsettling secrets about Tessa. Ages 14 and up.

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, by Michelle Hodkin (Simon & Schuster, $16.99)
When Mara Dyer wakes up, she’s in a hospital. At first she has no memory of the accident or of the fact that it killed her friends. As she slowly remembers what happened, she’s horrified. Hodkin’s first novel is an emotional, realistic tale of a young girl coming out of a coma. Ages 14 and up.

Thursday, December 8, 7 p.m.

John Lewis Gaddis
George F. Kennan: An American Life
(Penguin Press, $39.95)
In this magisterial biography begun some 30 years ago, Gaddis, the great historian of the Cold War era, draws on Kennan’s diaries and on interviews conducted late in the diplomat’s life to give the fullest account to date of the man who formulated the containment policy.

And announcing a January ticketed event for teens!

Friday, January 13, 7 p.m.

Politics & Prose hosts
John and Hank Green
The Fault in Our Stars
(Dutton, $17.99)
at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda
7400 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD
The Fault in Our Stars is a novel about teens dealing with terminal illnesses. It features Green’s first female narrator, 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is battling thyroid cancer, though a new medicine has given her a few more years. When she meets Augustus Waters at Cancer Kid Support Group, her feelings for him make her situation even more heartbreaking. This bold and insightful book by the winner of a Printz Award, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award, takes readers through a gamut of emotions. Ages 14 and up. 

To participate in this ticketed event, each person attending must purchase the book and a $5 admission ticket from Politics & Prose. Books and tickets can be pre-ordered and pre-purchased now. Tickets are not sold separately.

The Fault in our Stars will be released on January 10, 2012.  You may collect your books and tickets at Politics & Prose January 10 - 12 or at the event on January 13. Purchase the book with an event ticket by clicking here, or call the store at 202-364-1919. If you are not attending the event, you may call the store or click here to pre-order the book without a ticket and get a copy signed by John Green!

 

 

P&P Customers Are Also Invited To . . .


 

Now through January 1, 2012

Much Ado about Nothing

Shakespeare Theatre Company
Sidney Harman Hall
610 F St., NW

Much Ado about Nothing
Directed by Ethan McSweeny
'Tis the season for holiday cheer, a special date with a loved one, an outing with friends and great theatre at the Shakespeare Theatre Company! Much Ado about Nothing is the ultimate battle of the sexes, Shakespeare style, where young lovers woo and old enemies fight (before finding their true loves). Set against a backdrop of hot and sultry 1930s Cuba, passions and temperatures will rise this winter at Sidney Harman Hall in this classic tale of love and wits.

P&P patrons receive 10% off tickets. Click here to purchase or call the Box Office at 202.547.1122, option 1 with promo code: POLITICSPROSE.



December 13, 2011 to January 15, 2012

billyKennedy Center Opera House
Billy Elliot the Musical

Email your name and telephone number to [email protected] with Billy Elliot in the subject line to be entered into a drawing for two tickets to the show.

Billy Elliot the Musical has been called "the most inspiring show I've seen in years" by The New York Times. The show was honored with ten 2009 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Set in a small town in the north of England against the background of the historic 1894/95 miners' strike, Billy, the son of a miner, discovers an extraordinary talent for dance, which he pursues in secret to avoid the disapproval of his family and community. In the end, he ends up inspiring them, and his life changes forever.

Based on the internationally acclaimed film, Billy Elliot the Musical is brought to life by a phenomenal cast of 45 performers and the Tony Award-winning creative team--director Stephen Daldry, choreographer Peter Darling and writer Lee Hall--along with music legend Elton John, whose score is called "show-stopping and electric" by The New York Times.

Click here to order exclusive $65 orchestra tickets (an average savings of $30) for December 13 - 15, 7:30 p.m. performances of Billy Elliot the Musical!

Or, mention offer number 134509 when ordering by phone or at the box office. Call 800-444-1324 or 202-467-4600

 

 

From the Children and Teens' Department


Children's Book of the WeekEd Young
(20% off for everyone through December 14)

As war crept through China and the world became more and more dangerous in the 1930s, Ed Young and his brothers and sisters were all safe in Shanghai in The House Baba Built (Little, Brown, $17.99). This autobiography tells the story of life in wartime China through episodes, photographs, and collages of keepsakes and found objects from the artist’s childhood. Truly a tribute to the author’s father, the architect of his happy childhood, this book is an inspiration to all budding artists. Ages 8-12 – Dana Chidiac

Read about - and buy - more of our favorite books for children and teens by clicking here. 

 

 

story hour

Story Hour
Story hour with BearSong and his guitar is on hiatus during the holiday season.
It will resume on Monday, January 9 at 10:30 a.m. in the Children's Department.

Signup here to receive email updates about the Politics & Prose story hour - storytelling and music for children from birth to 5 years old. We will inform you of special story hours, changes or cancellations. Be sure to sign up for our email updates for news of the next season’s opening day.

 

Markdown Books



Markdown Books

Whether you’re looking for a clever stocking-stuffer or something you can dip into as a busy schedule permits, Sol Steinmetz’s Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning might be just the thing. A lexicographer and former editorial director of Random House Reference, Steinmetz knows his English. From A1 to zilch, he looks at the history of words and a few phrases, citing earliest and most recent usages, with snippets of history along the way. The entries are concise, often surprising, and never ponderous. Available in hardcover, $4.98.

Watch a great writer come to life. The five essays by Virginia Woolf gathered as Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing date from 1907, when Woolf was 25, to the late 1930s. In each, Woolf looks back to days that seemed ordinary yet that in their very ordinariness, crystallized some profound truth or realization. James Joyce called such experiences “epiphanies”; For Woolf, they were “moments of being.” As with her fiction, Woolf’s prose here is lyrical and utterly transporting. Available in paperback, $6.98.

Woolf also figures in Jonah Lehrer’s first book, Proust was a Neuroscientist. In fact, Lehrer is the neuroscientist, and in Proust, Woolf, and other great artists he finds prescient insights into how the mind works. When Proust wrote about the link between sensory experience and the memory, or when Woolf used stream-of-consciousness narrative to simulate how the conscious mind organizes information, emotions, and the simultaneity of daily life, they were revealing processes that cognitive science has since validated. Lehrer admires both scientists and artists, and his book charts their distinct routes to the same truths. Available in paperback, $6.98.

Please call us at 202-364-1919 or stop by the store to shop for these and other discounted titles.

Laurie Greer

 

Music News


SONDHEIM’S FOLLIES

MusicThe new production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, directed by Eric Schaeffer, premiered at the Kennedy Center this summer, and then moved to Broadway - - receiving even more raves. Follies: New Broadway Cast Recording (P.S. Classics, 2 CDs, $22.98) is just out, with striking turns from Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Ron Raines, Elaine Paige, Danny Burstein, and Terri White. Relive this splendid production (maybe while reading either volume of Sondheim’s Hat Box: Complete Lyrics).

 

FOLGER CONSORT

MusicThe Folger Consort’s brand new album honors the 400th anniversary of one of the most important books in Western history. A New Song: Celebrating the King James Bible (Bard Records, $11.98) has musical settings of biblical verse and other sacred works from the reigns of England’s James I and James II by Purcell, Tomkins, Gibbons, and Blow. Interspersed are instrumental fantasies from the era.

The Folger Shakespeare Library has a wonderful exhibit, Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible, on display through January 15.

NOTE: The Consort’s annual Christmas concerts are always thematically intriguing: this year’s is titled O Magnum Mysterium: Christmas Music from Renaissance Spain, and there are 12 performances starting this Friday, December 9 through December 18, at the Folger.

And early in the new year, Anonymous 4 will join the Consort in a program, Heavenly Revelations: Music of Hildegard von Bingen and Medieval France, at Washington Cathedral, January 6 and 7.

 

 

NEW

MusicSongs for the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story, 1950-1973 (Idelsohn Society, $14.98) – Tikva Records was started in the late 1940s, and its many LPs of wide ranging music became a soundtrack in the transformative post-war years in Jewish-American life. Songs is a compilation of some of the best of Tikva: Leo Fuld, Sam Musiker, Bernie Knee, Sara Aviani and her Yemenite Trio, Moishe Oysher are some of those included.

The four young music lovers who started the Idelsohn Society have already released re-issue projects featuring the Barry Sisters, Fred Katz, Jewish music with a Latin tinge, and last year's fantastic Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations. Listen to their latest preservation project. The album comes with extensive notes and photos.

Pink Martini & Saori Yuki, 1969 (Heinz Records, $17.98) – The “small big band” Pink Martini collaborated with Japanese vocal star Saori Yuki on one track on their holiday album from last season, Joy to the World. The follow-up is an entire CD of hits from the year 1969: pop songs from Japan, France, Brazil, even America (“Is That All There Is” and “Puff, the Magic Dragon”).

NOTE: Pink Martini, with their sultry lead singer China Forbes, will be in concert at Strathmore next Tuesday, December 13.

Black Keys, El Camino (Nonesuch, $17.98) – The guitar-drum duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have built a devoted following for their blues-garage rock hybrid. Their latest throws in some surf-rock, glam-rock, and some more hardcore rhythm and blues.

Amy Weinstein, Lioness: Hidden Treasures (Republic Records, $14.98) – Tracks assembled from 2002 to the present; from the very beginnings of Winehouse’s career—when she already had a distinct voice and attitude—to its sad end this year.

 

 

SALE

MusicKeith Jarrett, Rio (ECM) is 15% off through the holidays.

Paul Simon, So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music) is 10% off.

Click here for more news and reviews. Please call us at 202-364-1919 or email me at [email protected] to order these CDs.


  • András Goldinger

Book Groups


P&P's book groups meet monthly and are free and open to the public.

Thursday, December 8, 7:30 p.m.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Group
6:30 Fantasy: Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
7:30
Science Fiction: A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge

Note: The science fiction bookgroup will take place at Jakes American Grill across the street from Politics and Prose. The fantasy bookgroup will take place in the Politics & Prose staff room.

January 12 selections:

6:30 Fantasy: American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
7:30 Science Fiction:
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

Monday, December 12, 7:30 p.m.

Women's Biography Book Group
An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard
January 9 selection: Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell

Tuesday, December 13, 7:30 p.m.

Evening Fiction Book Group
The Road Home, by Rose Tremain
January 10 selection: Down and Out in Paris and in London, by George Orwell

Wednesday, December 14, 7:30 p.m.

Lez Read
No Meeting in December
January 11 selection: Trick of the Dark, by Val McDermid

Thursday, December 15, 7:30 p.m.

Fascinating History Book Group
The Island at the Center of the World, by Russell Shorto
January 26 selection: Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River, by Alice Albinia

Click here to learn more about participating in these or other Politics & Prose book groups.

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