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Michelle Obama's 'The Look' reflects on her fashion choices

Michelle Obama's 'The Look' reflects on her fashion choices

NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama has a new book out this fall that offers a fresh take on her public life, a story not of politics but of fashion. Obama announced on social media Thursday that “The Look” will be released Nov.
Ex-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre left Democratic Party, publisher of her book says

Ex-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre left Democratic Party, publisher of her book says

NEW YORK (AP) — Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has a book out this fall that promises a close look at President Biden's decision not to run for reelection and calls for thinking beyond the two-party system.
British writer Bernardine Evaristo receives accolade for breaking literary boundaries

British writer Bernardine Evaristo receives accolade for breaking literary boundaries

LONDON (AP) — Bernardine Evaristo doesn't like boundaries. For the Booker Prize -winning novelist, rules about genre, grammar or what a working-class biracial woman can achieve are all to be challenged and swept away.
Former CIA Director William Burns has a book deal for the memoir 'Diplomat Spy'

Former CIA Director William Burns has a book deal for the memoir 'Diplomat Spy'

NEW YORK (AP) — Former CIA director and Biden cabinet official William J. Burns is working on a book about his years leading the intelligence agency .

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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 2. Never Flinch by Stephen King (Scribner) 3. Nightshade by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company) 4.
Book Review: In ‘The Listeners,' Maggie Stiefvater approaches WWII with a distinct voice

Book Review: In ‘The Listeners,' Maggie Stiefvater approaches WWII with a distinct voice

Maggie Stiefvater has brought her magical prose with her to her first adult novel. “The Listeners” takes place at a luxury hotel in West Virginia as World War II begins. In need of a place to store their foreign nationals — i.e.
An interfaith group’s 1950s MLK comic book remains a prominent nonviolence teaching tool

An interfaith group’s 1950s MLK comic book remains a prominent nonviolence teaching tool

(RNS) — At cross-cultural gatherings in Bethlehem, West Bank, groups of children and adults turn to a 67-year-old, colorful comic book with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Book Review: Michael Luo tells the harrowing story of Chinese exclusion in America

Book Review: Michael Luo tells the harrowing story of Chinese exclusion in America

The history of Chinese immigrants in America has always been about much more than one particular ethnic group.
Book Review: ‘Beach House Rules’ is delicious high end Southern chick lit

Book Review: ‘Beach House Rules’ is delicious high end Southern chick lit

Charlotte Sitterly and her 14-year-old daughter, Iris, are suddenly shut out of their comfortable life in an upscale coastal community in North Carolina.
Book Review: 'Charlottesville' a dramatic account of deadly 2017 rally and history behind it

Book Review: 'Charlottesville' a dramatic account of deadly 2017 rally and history behind it

Decades before the violent Unite the Right rally in 2017 in Charlottesville that drew white nationalists protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, the city was targeted by a white supremacist who hoped to ignite a race war.