Every month, the staff at Amazon.com sift through hundreds of new books searching for gems. Here’s what they chose especially for Post readers:
American Heiress
by Jeffrey Toobin
Toobin does for Patty Hearst’s kidnapping and trial what he did for O.J. Simpson’s trial in the 1990s: sums it up, figures it out.
Publisher: Doubleday
Release date: August 2, 2016
Substitute
by Nicholson Baker
The story of what the novelist and essayist learned as an on-call substitute school teacher.
Publisher: Blue Rider Press
Release date: September 6, 2016
Born to Run
by Bruce Springsteen
The Boss tells us (finally) the story of his life as a musician, New Jerseyan, and rock ’n’ roll icon.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release date: September 27, 2016
The Nine of Us
by Jean Kennedy Smith
The last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings laughed and learned under one roof.
Publisher: Harper-Collins
Release date: October 25, 2016
Dark Mirror
by Barton Gellman
The three-time Pulitzer Prize winner dives into Edward Snowden’s NSA trove in this inside look at the surveillance-industrial revolution and its discontents.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Release date: December 6, 2016
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