THE PIANO SHOP ON THE LEFT BANK Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier By Thad Carhart Random House. 271 pp. $23.95 Like innumerable other Americans before him, Thad Carhart found his way to Paris -- the Left Bank, in his case as in so many others -- fell in love with it, and could not resist the temptation to write about it. Unlike innumerable Americans before him, he did not succumb to the temptation to write about how cute the French are, to wax sentimental about their food and their wine and their quirky ways, to drone on and on about the beauties and wonders of Paris.

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Photos by Rafael Vilela for The Washington Post Aug. 30 at 7:13 a.m. BRASILÉIA, Brazil — Daniel Valle sped down Highway 317, closing in on the first targets of the day. He was in a hurry. Deforestation alerts had tripled in recent weeks. Police were warning that armed criminal groups had invaded new territory. Another season of destroying the Amazon rainforest was here, and in this corner, the only check on the looming ecological disaster was this: Valle’s small team of inspectors in a dirt-splattered pickup truck.