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Tweet Share Some 3,400 Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1948, but it took 100 years for Major League Baseball to recognize them as major-league-caliber players and to enter their achievements in the historical record. Author Andrea Williams loves the sport, but early on, she found herself even more curious about the business that makes it work. Her curiosity led her to discover a little-known Black American woman named Effa Manley, the co-owner and business manager of the Negro Leagues’ Newark Eagles. Williams’ new nonfiction middle-grades book...

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, by Declan Walsh (Norton). The author, a foreign correspondent who was based in Pakistan for almost a decade, here tells the story of this complicated nation through some of its most influential personalities, including Muhammad Ali Jinnah, its founder; the human-rights activist Asma Jahangir; and the legendary spy Sultan Amir Tarar. Equally perceptive about the megacities of Karachi and Lahore and the remote regions of Waziristan and Balochistan, Walsh portrays a Pakistan that is “more concept than country . . . strained under the centrifugal forces of history, identity and faith.” A...

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