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Watergate: A New History,

by Garrett Graff

Nonfiction | Nearly half a cen-

tury has passed since five men were

arrested inside the offices of the

Democratic National Committee in

the Watergate office building. Dur-

ing that time, scores of books have

been published about the scandal

and the resignation of President

Richard Nixon. Do we need an-

other? Yes: This one is a remarkably

rich narrative with compelling

characters, who range from crimi-

nal and flawed to tragic and heroic.

Yerba Buena,

b y Nina LaCour

Fiction | Teenagers Sara and

Emilie are immediately drawn to

each other when they meet by

chance at a Los Angeles restau-

rant. Their connection might have

something to do with their shared

histories: Both have weathered

tragedies born of drug addiction.

But circumstances keep driving

them apart over the course of

years as each narrates her own

coming-of-age story.

Laurence Olivier’s pairing was a

bad idea from the start, when

each abandoned a spouse and

child to strike up a turbulent

romance. Galloway, the former

executive editor of the Holly-

wood Reporter, lifts himself

clear of previous chronicles by

weaving in more details of

Leigh’s bipolar disorder, which

manifested itself variously as vi-

olent mood swings, tumultuous

affairs and, on occasion, psy-

chotic breaks.

Trust,

by Hernan Diaz

Fiction | Diaz, a Pulitzer Prize

finalist, has created an irresist-

ible puzzle of a novel. Each of the

four parts offers a different per-

spective on the life of an enig-

matic Wall Street tycoon who

rose to fame and fortune in the

early 20th century. Diaz is inter-

ested not only in the way wealthy

men burnish their image, but

also in the way such memorial-

ization involves the diminish-

ment, even the erasure of others.

Eleven” and the perception-bend-

ing tricks she played in “The Glass

Hotel.” The interlocking stories

stretch from 1912 to 2401, where a

man learns that “moments from

different centuries are bleeding

into one another.” This is science

fiction about loneliness, grief and

finding purpose.

True Biz,

by Sara Novic

Fiction | A boarding school for

deaf students is the setting for a

novel that presents a kaleidoscope

of experiences, including a girl’s

meeting a deaf person for the first

time and a boy’s struggle with the

birth of his hearing sister. Novic is

a thoughtful tour guide through

her own deaf culture, providing

mini history lessons and illustra-

tions of vocabulary words in Amer-

ican Sign Language.

Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh,

Laurence Olivier, and the

Romance of the Century,

by Stephen Galloway

Nonfiction | Vivien Leigh and

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