From the precincts
Local booksellers tell us what Chicago is buying
Reading on Walden Bookstore
9913 S. Walden Pkwy.
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1. Dreams From My Father
By Barack Obama (Three Rivers, $13.95 paper)
The U.S. senator’s personal and political perspectives in the form of a memoir.
2. Night
By Elie Wiesel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $9 paper)
An autobiographical story of the author’s experiences in Nazi concentration camps.
3. At Canaan’s Edge
By Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster, $35)
The final book in the author’s trilogy about Martin Luther King Jr. and America.
4. A Family of Poems
Edited by Caroline Kennedy (Hyperion, $19.95)
A collection of favorite poems, with illustrations by Jon Muth.
5. Self-Made Man
By Norah Vincent (Viking, $24.95)
An exploration of manhood from a woman’s perspective.
