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A new book by the journalist Shoshana Walter brings needed scrutiny to bear on America’s drug treatment system.

Edward Lear, author of “The Owl and the Pussy-cat” and “A Book of Nonsense,” felt such a kinship with parrots that he wished he could become one.

With “Tonight in Jungleland,” Peter Ames Carlin looks deep inside the album that made Springsteen a rock star.

“The Feeling of Iron,” by Giaime Alonge, follows two Holocaust survivors on a quest for revenge.

Shobha Rao’s new novel, “Indian Country,” is a crime story as well as a multilayered saga of white empire in India and America.

The former labor secretary Robert B. Reich sees “the central struggle of civilization as fighting bullies,” he says in a new memoir.

An Yu portrays a community trying to maintain daily routines amid dire, irreversible circumstances.

In the scrumptious “Tart,” the anonymous London haute-cuisine veteran Slutty Cheff tells all. Deliciously.

Elliot Ackerman keeps a light tone in his new novel, “Sheepdogs,” though a more somber back story sometimes peeks through.

These back-to-school reads will help children tackle first-day nerves, new teachers, letters, numbers and more.