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What would Joan think? Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into a book after her death.

Alan Weisman has found an all-world cast of scientists, engineers and environmentalists who have dreamed big and worked passionately to repair some of the world’s wrecked ecosystems and also to develop processes that, for example, use far less energy

Sara Jafari’s “Things Left Unsaid” is a love-craving, tumbling tale of two Iranian British friends who first meet in high school — the self-skeptic and pessimist Shirin Bayat, and the traumatized Kian Rahimi.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prince lassos a dragon, saving a knight in shining armor from certain death. But the prince slips and as he falls, the knight and his steed race to return the favor. Then the two men fall in love.

TORONTO — Late musician Robbie Robertson will share memories of his enduring friendship with filmmaker Martin Scorsese in an upcoming memoir.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cameron Crowe was planning to compile some of his old music interviews for a book when he realized he had a more intimate story to tell.

Illustrator Lili Chin became fascinated with dog behavior in 2008 after her Boston terrier, Boogie, bit their landlord and they almost got evicted. Ordered by her landlord to get training for Boogie or else, Chin sought out animal behaviorists.

CHELSEA, Mich. (AP) — Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books — one by one — to a new storefront about a block away.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. Fearless by Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) 2. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Inc.) 3. Holly by Stephen King (Scribner) 4.

Mark Synnott admits in the introduction to his new book that “it is out in the high and wild places in this world that I’ve always felt the closest to whoever it is that I really am.