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The cities of ancient Mesopotamia were oases for travelers trying to escape the sun’s heat. Urban shade was created by the buildings themselves with homes constructed close together and next to alleyways less than 5 feet wide.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. An Inside Job by Daniel Silva (Harper) 2. The Hamptons Lawyer by James Patterson & Mike Lupica (Little, Brown and Company) 3. State of Retribution, A First Family Novel by Marie Force (HTJB, Inc.) 4.

LONDON (AP) — Indian author Kiran Desai, who won the Booker Prize and then didn’t publish a novel for almost two decades, is up for the award again with her long-awaited follow-up.

After the shattering conclusion of “Not Quite Dead Yet,” author Holly Jackson addresses her readers this way: “... and breathe. Sorry. I know that was intense.

Most wars begin with a unilateral act. Americans fired “the shot heard round the world” in Lexington in 1775 , the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, and the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.

“Gwyneth: The Biography,” Amy Odell’s thorough portrait of Gwyneth Paltrow, splits her life and career into two distinct periods: the rise (and fall) of the quintessential ’90s Hollywood “It girl,” and her transformation to wellness mogul with the cr

In the 1960s, a hospital in London held a ward full of women who suffered from a range of mental disorders.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. An Inside Job by Daniel Silva (Harper) 2. The Idaho Four by James Patterson & Vicky Ward (Little, Brown and Company) 3. Edge of Honor by Brad Thor (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 4.

Yuri is a 16-year-old orphan who lives simply with her religious aunt in a big, old house in Communist Cuba in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“Mendell Station” is Korean American writer J.B. Hwang’s first novel. And it is all about death — its horror, finality and mystery, and, most of all, how those who knew and loved that person must cope.