'Wild Horse Country' author David Philipps discusses the rise (and fall and rise) of the American wild horse and the federal government's bizarre approach to equine management.
'However clichéd,' says The Mayflower' author Rebecca Fraser, 'there is a good deal of truth in the Mayflower legend!'
What's America reading? Politics, advice, and anything with a movie tie-in.
Some of these 'un-discovered islands' are products of myth and legend like the famous Atlantis. Others have more unexpected origins like fraud. And a few actually were once considered real by scientists and geographers as recently as this decade.
'Fire on the Track' author Roseanne Montillo says that US athletes competing in the 1928 Olympics helped transform women's sports.
'God put me on earth for many reasons, and one is to integrate the history of the human community by establishing the role that black people played,' he says.
Deborah Cadbury, author of 'Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe,' talks about the queen's wide-ranging impact – for better and for worse – on European history.
It's good news for the Neapolitan novelist's fans, some of whom feared they would never hear from her again.
My library grows by the year, but it all started with Gumby.
Cloned monkeys Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are seen at the non-human primate facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, China, on Jan. 20.
Critics note that the new book is dark, but most agree that it's 'a stunning achievement.'
Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin once described Wilbur as 'a poet for us all, whose elegant words brim with wit and paradox.'
'Trying to achieve change through something like science fiction seems like a pipe dream,' Adams says. 'But it also feels like the only thing that writers can hope to do.'
The Nobel judges described Ishiguro as a mix of Jane Austen and Franz Kafka, with 'a little bit of Marcel Proust.'
'It was hair-raising, it was a cliff-hanger,' says Henriques of the 1987 incident. 'We almost didn't make it through.'
This year, the main reason for objection to books was sex and gender issues.
'There's a lot of fabulous Canadian crime fiction,' says Penny. 'Our mysteries are maybe more of a slow burn than others, but they're really worth discovering.'
Burns and Novick call the Vietnam War 'the most consequential event in American history in the second half of the last century.'
The storm's heroes include a brave train engineer who desperately hustled evacuees out of the hurricane's path, an immigrant from the Bahamas who tried to save his fishing-and-farming clan of more than 60 people, and Ernest Hemingway.
There were surprisingly deep personal ties between the two generals, says Horn, but ultimately the two men cast their lots on opposing sides of history.