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The Dust Bowl story, written in 1947, was found by Douglas Brinkley and will be published.

The wife of chef Dan Barber has written a book.

A look at today's top book and publishing news.

We scope out the hottest books on sale the week of Feb. 3.

Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle wrote the best-selling book "American Sniper."

Alexandra Horowitz's 'On Looking' leads the weekend book picks.

In her poetry, Brenda Shaughnessy imagines a world without a child’s pain.

Joan Wickersham explores relationships in her collection.

Describing a life caught between Seattle and Qatar.

The final volume of Christopher Isherwood’s diaries.

Grave robbers, ghoulish experiments and the Romantic age: Roseanne Montillo traces the origins of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece.

An idiosyncratic English church is the starting point for Jenny Uglow’s biography of the Victorian architect and heiress Sarah Losh.

A fresh look at the story of America’s industrial development.

A once-beloved Kentucky high school team fights to regain glory.

The former Red Sox manager Terry Francona is at No. 2 on the hardcover nonfiction list with a scorched-earth memoir taking aim at the team owners who showed him the door.

Ali Smith weaves fact and fiction in these interconnected essays, whose narrator is haunted — literally — by a former lover.

Michael Dean’s novel imagines the bawdy, philanthropic life of the painter William Hogarth.

George Saunders’s stories offer a close look at life’s dark aspects, but don’t succumb to them.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback books of particular interest.