Get the latest news, events and more from the Los Angeles Times Book Club, and help us get L.A. reading and talking. Your ultimate L.A. Bookshelf is here — a guide to the 110 essential L.A. books, ...

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Algonquin scores bilingual rights to Caro De Robertis’s novel about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Harper takes a memoir from late filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, and more.

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Secondary school education in Kenya was considered incomplete if one did not read Kiswahili (fasihi) books famously known as ‘Set books’. They played a key role and a section of Kenyans have ...