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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) 2. Tides of Fire by James Rollins (William Morrow) 3.

NEW YORK (AP) — Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney and the late bell hooks were among the authors honored this year by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Ishmael Reed that celebrates multicultural literature.

“Kind of a Big Deal: How ‘Anchorman’ Stayed Classy and Became the Most Iconic Comedy of the Twenty-First Century” by Saul Austerlitz (Dutton) There are plenty of comedies that are known by many for their catchphrases and gags more than the actual plo

CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — When Allison Strickland urged a suburban Atlanta school board in June to remove four books from school libraries, she was following a path cleared by Georgia’s Republican lawmakers.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a Utah mother who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death and is now accused of fatally poisoning him.

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia school board voted along party lines Thursday to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.

WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — On a recent Sunday afternoon, Vermont’s lieutenant governor was at a local library, reading a book about two male penguins to a crowd of nearly two dozen. This was not the first stop for Lt. Gov.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has approved a permanent injunction against the online Internet Archive from scanning and sharing all copyrighted books already made available by publishers.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell - 9781982179021 - (Atria Books) 2. Happiness by Danielle Steel - 9781984821935 - (Random House Publishing Group) 3. Home Front by Kristin Hannah - 9781429942218 - (St.