Sunday books: coverage for August 1, 2010.

Her newest novel exists in the separate yet simultaneous worlds of a Filipina nanny and the Pacific Palisades mom for whom she works.

This question resonates as two sisters find their way in the glorious, but doomed, dot-com era of the ‘90s.

In ‘The World That Never Was,’ Alex Butterworth details how anarchism became violent and discredited with help from secret police and agents provocateurs.

A teenager’s eyes are opened as he joins his father and another bumbler on a comic misadventure.

The array of articles online may have earned Demand Studios the ‘content farm’ label, but it holds an odd appeal for writers in search of freelance gigs.

‘Anton Chekhov: A Brother’s Memoir,’ finally translated into English, offers a gossipy remembrance of a beloved brother by a man who continues to miss him.

Also: ‘Love in a Time of Homeschooling,’ ‘Saving Schools’ and ‘No University Is an Island’

Thomas S. Hines fleshes out the heroes of L.A. architecture with a smart look at their most important buildings.

On dangerous ground: In Justin Peacock’s thriller “Blind Man’s Alley,” intrigue and murder involve commercial property deals.