A Natural Woman

From her working-class Brooklyn childhood to success as a Brill Building hitmaker and her later rise to stardom with the legendary album Tapestry, Carole King takes readers through a career of exhilarating highs and profound lows. Her meditations on motherhood, music, and marriage are revealing, and she delivers an insider's perspective on the industry and the many musical talents who became colleagues, partners, rivals and lovers.

June 18: George Orwell's "As One Non-Combatant to Another" was published on this day in 1943. Orwell's poem arguing against pacifism quotes from Churchill's "finest hour" speech, delivered to Parliament and the nation on this day in…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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