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Geoffrey Cain’s “Samsung Rising” tells the full story of the giant corporation from its beginnings as a shop selling vegetables.

In “That Hair,” the Portuguese writer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida uses a young half-Angolan girl in Lisbon to explore her own Afro-European selfhood.

“Nobody Will Tell You This but Me,” a memoir by Bess Kalb, traces her family history from the Russian pogroms to the American dream.

For almost 40 years, the poet and law professor Lawrence Joseph has embraced big questions. “A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems” shows the path his work has traveled.