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BOOKS
Local bestsellers for the week ended March 10
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.
BOOK REVIEW
‘Feeding Ghosts,’ by Tessa Hulls, maps a family’s journey from Mao’s China to the United States today
The horrors of civil war, famine, and foreign invasion still mark a Chinese family two generations on, as illustrated in a cartoonist’s new graphic memoir.
BIBLIOPHILES
Philippa Gregory on her favorite historical fiction writers
‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ author likes to read either history or fiction, but a handful of historical fiction peers makes her list of favorites
BOOK REVIEW
Red Sox fans, avert your eyes. Kevin Baker pitches a raucous blend of baseball and city history in ‘The New York Game’
The native Rockport author dispels some myths about the national pastime in the process.
BOOKS
The Horn Book magazine celebrates a century of children’s art and literature, and lively debate
One of the children’s publishing industry’s most storied publications turns 100 this year. Its history and future are as colorful as its covers.
RI REPORT PODCAST
In new book, R.I.’s Ken Block spells out why Trump really lost the 2020 election
On the Rhode Island Report podcast, the Barrington software engineer and former gubernatorial candidate details how he was hired by the Trump campaign and disproved false claims of voter fraud.
Malachy McCourt, actor, memoirist, and gadabout, dies at 92
Relatively few entries on his resume are verifiable. Among Mr. McCourt’s intimates, though, his feats — bona fide, embellished, or even fabricated, but by now folkloric — seem perfectly plausible.
Petra Mathers, author whose children’s stories soared, dies at 78
With wit and a spare style, she created kindly, often bumbling animal characters who were nonetheless quietly heroic and often risked much for love.