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The publisher of such blockbusters as Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” and John Grisham’s “The Firm” has a memoir coming out next yearByThe Associated PressJanuary 20, 2022, 4:26 PM• 1 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this…

Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings” series has forged a name for itselfByThe Associated PressJanuary 19, 2022, 3:01 PM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleLOS ANGELES -- Amazon's “The Lord of the Rings” series has…

Sen. Tim Scott has a memoir out this summer that he says will explain the two words that have shaped his life: hope and redemptionByThe Associated PressJanuary 18, 2022, 1:38 PM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this…

“Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire” by Jonathan M. Katz (St. Martin's Press)Plenty of U.S. veterans of the country’s 21-century “forever wars” — men and women who lost…

Valerie Bertinelli has been in the public eye for nearly a half-century, starring in hit TV shows, hosting an Emmy-winning Food Network program and writing multiple best-selling booksBy MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated PressJanuary 18, 2022,…

Former Attorney General William PBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National WriterJanuary 18, 2022, 3:48 PM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleNEW YORK -- Former Attorney General William P. Barr has a memoir coming out March 8…

A free e-book compilation includes excerpts from upcoming novels by Geraldine Brooks, Karen Jay Fowler and Mohsin Hamid among othersByThe Associated PressJanuary 18, 2022, 1:21 PM• 1 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this…

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iraj Pezeshkzad, an Iranian author whose bestselling comic novel, “My Uncle Napoleon,” lampooned Persian culture's self-aggrandizing and paranoid behavior as the country entered the modern era, has died. He was 94.The…

A single page of artwork from a Spider-Man comic book sold at auction for a record $3.36 millionByThe Associated PressJanuary 14, 2022, 2:07 AM• 1 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleDALLAS -- A single page of artwork…

The United States Mint says it has begun shipping quarters featuring the image of poet Maya AngelouBy MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics WriterJanuary 12, 2022, 11:28 PM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleWASHINGTON…