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Former Justice Herb Brown marks his 93rd birthday with a new book — and a word to Ohio voters
Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Herb Brown celebrated his 93rd birthday on Friday with the release of his latest book — and a plug for democracy. As he promoted “Darkness Lies in Wait,” Brown said he had fall elections on his mind. “I would never tell anyone...
U.S. publishers association honors Belarus book publisher forced into exile
NEW YORK (AP) — A Belarus book publisher forced to operate out of Poland because of persecution from its own government is being honored by the trade association representing U.S. publishers. The Association of American Publishers announced Friday that it was awarding its...
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Butcher Game" by Alaina Urquhart (Zand) 2. “We Solve Murders" by Richard Osman (Viking/Dorman) 3. “The Book of Bill” by Alex Hirsch (Hyperion Avenue) 4. “Here One Moment” by Liane Moriarty (Crown) ...
Kim Porter's children say she didn’t write bestselling memoir about Diddy
NEW YORK (AP) — Although it's a bestseller on Amazon, the late Kim Porter did not write a tell-all memoir detailing an abusive relationship with her longtime partner Sean “Diddy” Combs, her children said in a statement Tuesday. “Kim’s Lost Words: A journey for justice,...
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Nonfiction 1. Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton, narrated by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio) 2. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, narrated by Vidish Athavale (Random House Audio) 3. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by...
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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (Penguin Publishing Group) 2. The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave (S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books) 3. The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter) 4....
Book Review: Sally Rooney’s latest novel 'Intermezzo' examines unacknowledged grief
Ivan and Peter Koubek’s father has just died, but neither seems willing to talk much about it, let alone to one another. After all, it’s not like the two brothers are even friends. Peter, the eldest by a decade, pities his awkward, 22-year-old brother, a competitive chess player...
Book Review: Crystal King combines food, myths and surrealism with 'In the Garden of Monsters'
Salvador Dali hires a young artist with a striking similarity to the goddess Proserpina to model for him in the Sacro Bosco, a mystical garden almost as surreal as Dali himself. But the beautiful Julia Lombardi quickly finds there’s more tying her to the gods of Greek and Roman myths than just...
Book Review: Wright Thompson exposes deep racist roots of the Mississippi Delta in ‘The Barn’
“The barn… is long and narrow with sliding doors in the middle,” writes Wright Thompson in ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.’ “Nobody knows when it was built exactly but its cypress-board walls were already weathered in the summer of 1955.” What...
50 years after 'The Power Broker,' Robert Caro's dreams are still coming true
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert A. Caro stands between two giant columns in a second-floor library of the New-York Historical Society, looking out on dozens of friends, family members and colleagues. A research room named for him looms behind. Portions of his archives are on display nearby. ...
