“They demand nothing of the reader,” says the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” whose new book is “The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening.” “And every page has the promise of a happy ending.”
The Dolby Theater isn’t the only place where stars gather; they also tend to pop up on the best-seller list. Here are four recent visitors who deserve to take a bow.
“They demand nothing of the reader,” says the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” whose new book is “The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening.” “And every page has the promise of a happy ending.”
In “Empress of the Nile,” Lynne Olson tells the story of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the archaeologist who broke into a notoriously misogynistic men’s club: Egyptology.
New beginnings are cheerful in theory. Three new books — “What Napoleon Could Not Do,” by DK Nnuro; “Dyscalculia,” by Camonghne Felix; and “A Country You Can Leave,” by Asale Angel-Ajani — showcase what the existential process actually looks like.
In his new book, “The Courage to Be Free,” the Florida governor and potential Republican presidential candidate offers a template for governing based on an expansive vision of executive power.
“Wanderlust,” Reid Mitenbuler’s biography of the early-20th-century Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, examines a man drawn to some of the most isolated places on Earth.
