Best Books of 2018 by The Washington Post

Title: Good and Mad

The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates the long history of bitter resentment that has enshrouded women’s slow rise to political power in America, as well as the ways that anger is received when it comes from ...

Author(s): Rebecca Traister

ISBN 13: 9781501181795
Pages: 320

Title: The Library Book

In The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble ...

Author(s): Susan Orlean

ISBN 13: 9781476740188
Pages: 336

Title: The Line Becomes a River

"A former Border Patrol agent's haunting experience of an unnatural divide and the lives caught on either side, struggling to cross or to defend it"--

Author(s): Francisco Cantú

ISBN 13: 9780735217713
Pages: 256

Title: The Maze at Windermere

Named one of the ten best books of 2018 by The Washington Post Named one of the best books of 2018 by The Seattle Times "Staggeringly brilliant . . . You'll start The Maze of Windermere with bewilderment, but you'll close it in awe.

Author(s): Gregory Blake Smith

ISBN 13: 9780735221932
Pages: 368

Title: On Desperate Ground

"A chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War"--Provided by publisher.

Author(s): Hampton Sides

ISBN 13: 9780385541152
Pages: 368

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Title: One Person, No Vote

Long-listed for the National Book Award in Nonfiction From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.

Author(s): Carol Anderson

ISBN 13: 9781635571370
Pages: 288

Title: The Overstory

A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

Author(s): Richard Powers

ISBN 13: 9780393635522
Pages: 512

Title: A Place for Us: A Novel

As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister’s footsteps. And lastly, their estranged son, Amar, who returns to the family fold for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride. What secrets and betrayals have caused this close-knit family to fracture? Can Amar find his way back to the people who know and love him best? A Place for Us takes us back to the beginning of this family’s life: from the bonds that bring them together, to the differences that pull them apart. All the joy and struggle of family life is here, from Rafiq and Layla’s own arrival in America from India, to the years in which their children—each in their own way—tread between two cultures, seeking to find their place in the world, as well as a path home. A Place for Us is a book for our times: an astonishingly tender-hearted novel of identity and belonging, and a resonant portrait of what it means to be an American family today. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.

Author(s): Fatima Farheen Mirza

ISBN 13: 9781524763558

Title: There There

Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons.

Author(s): Tommy Orange

ISBN 13: 9780525520375
Pages: 304

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Title: Washington Black

"Originally published in hardcover in Canada by Patrick Crean Editions, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., Toronto, in 2018"--Copyright page.

Author(s): Esi Edugyan

ISBN 13: 9780525521426
Pages: 336