Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 17, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesaler…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 17, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesaler…
Independent Bookstore Day will be observed across the country on Saturday with a wide variety of in-person and virtual festivities, and the ol…
Chicken Soup for the Soul Babies will be for babies and toddlers, up to age 3, and Chicken Soup for the Soul Kids will be for ages 4-7.
Each week, a new poem will be featured on Dial-a-Poem, which can be reached at (434) 979-7151, Ext. 7. JMRL's Facebook page also will offer po…
"The Unwilling" by John Hart; St. Martin's Press (384 pages, $27.99) ——— John Hart, the author of six New York Times bestsellers, makes his ma…
CHICAGO — Richard Wright, in the winter of 1941, was the most successful Black author in America. Only 14 years earlier, he had made the Great…
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"Every Last Fear" by Alex Finlay; Minotaur (368 pages, $26.99) ——— The last conversation with a loved one can weigh heavily if that talk ends …
After learning that Japan was using robots to comfort legions of lonely, older people, novelist Kazuo Ishiguro was alternately "horrified and …
LOS ANGELES — The menu was always small at Sonoratown on the outskirts of the Fashion District, and the coronavirus didn't change that. The cr…
"Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story" by Mazie K. Hirono; Viking (416 pages, $28) ——— If you want to know what Mazie K. Hirono thinks…
Poetry is often referred to as an art, and it is one, but it’s also a practical tool. It can jostle your brain into new thoughts, change your …
It’s difficult to write a fresh-sounding biography of a woman who has been in Washington longer than some members of Congress have been alive.…
Events will include opportunities to learn an Elizabethan dance, stage a socially distanced fight, meet the ASC Bear, help write Shakespearean…
Ernest Hemingway’s terse prose style was groundbreaking in his time. Here are four novels and a short story collection that are essential reading.
A new book from Virginia Humanities and City of Promise, created by author Marc Boston and illustrator Ariel Mendez, is slated for distributio…
“The Chance to Fly” — published this week — was a way for the actor to share her own experiences as a person with a disability and big dreams.
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, one of the three Louisville, Kentucky, police officers who burst into Breonna Taylor’s apartment in March 2020 in a r…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesaler…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesaler…
NEW YORK — A leading mental health expert and commentator has a book deal his publisher is calling an “authoritative yet compassionate guide t…
"Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life" by Bill Madden; Simon and Schuster (291 pages, $28) ——— More than half a century has passed since the Miracle Me…
Who better to explain the Florida Man phenomenon than a Florida man? Not that Tyler Gillespie fits that viral profile. He has never, so far as…
Need some fresh fiction (or semifictionalized memoir) for spring? Here are six good bets, newly out in paperback. Happy reading! "Becoming Duc…
"Rising and Other Stories" by Gale Massey; Bronzeville Books (142 pages, $28) ——— In Gale Massey’s new short story collection, characters are …
“Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Search for Freedom and Identity in New York’s Greenwich Village,” by Jan Jarboe Russell; Scribner…
"The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock" by Edward White; W.W. Norton (384 pages, $28.95) ——— The cubist approach to writing biographies is here…
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