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A selection of summaries from The New York Times Book Review:
BOYS AMONG MEN: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution by Jonathan Abrams. Abrams, a former Grantland writer, profiles the players, both successful and less so, who joined the league directly from high school. Some of the sport's biggest stars followed this path between 1995 and 2005, including Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Garnett.

THE BONJOUR EFFECT: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed by Julie Barlow and Jean-Beno'eet Nadeau. As expatriates living in France, the authors learned firsthand the importance of cultural fluency. They approach their subject with anthropological eyes, focusing on the unseen rules that govern French speech: from the layered meanings of 'non' to the art and ritual of dinnertime discussions.

ANATOMY OF A SOLDIER by Harry Parker. The story of Capt Tom Barnes, a fictional British soldier in Afghanistan, is told from the perspectives of inanimate objects that surround him: a prosthetic limb, a tourniquet, dog tags. The fragmentary style of the novel suits its subject: Barnes was gravely injured during the conflict. As Times reviewer Benjamin Busch put it, such narrators are"witness to a single casualty, their multiple perspectives finally forming a gestalt view of a soldier's journey from mutilation to recovery."

STREET OF ETERNAL HAPPINESS: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz. Schmitz, an NPR correspondent based in China, offers a multigenerational portrait of his neighbourhood, a former colonial and expatriate stronghold, using the stories of its residents: a struggling restaurateur, an elderly couple, a migrant worker.

COMMONWEALTH by Ann Patchett. A betrayal sets in motion the joining and unraveling of the Keating and Cousins families over the decades, with Patchett's novel following the stepsiblings over 50 years."In delineating the casual blend of irritation and unsentimental affection among family members of all ages, Patchett excels," Times reviewer Curtis Sittenfeld wrote.
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