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- Reader recommendation: Piano Lessons
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- 'The Clan of the Cave Bear' TV adaptation moves forward at Lifetime
'Bear' will reportedly feature actress Millie Brady as the main character Ayla.
- Blizzard 2015: One book fan recalls literary winters
The Blizzard of 2015 would be only too familiar to Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jo March.
- 'Chasing the Scream' poses provocative questions about America's 'war on drugs'
One hundred years after the Harrison Act outlawed heroin and cocaine in the United States, a journalist challenges America's approach to illegal drugs.
- Reader recommendation: All God's Dangers
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- Alec Baldwin will release a memoir in 2016
Baldwin recently appeared in the films 'Still Alice' and 'Blue Jasmine,' among other work.
- 'Z for Zachariah' movie debuts at the Sundance Film Festival
'Z for Zachariah' is based on the book of the same name by 'Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH' author Robert C. O'Brien.
- 'Sympathy for the Devil' presents an often unlovely portrait of Gore Vidal
A confidant recalls his complex rapport with one of the 20th century’s great contrarians.
- Reader recommendation: In Harm's Way
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- 'The Magician's Lie': A blend of 'The Night Circus' and 'Water for Elephants'?
The novel 'The Magician's Lie' by Greer Macallister tells the story of a female illusionist who falls under suspicion for murder when her husband turns up dead.
- 'The Girl on the Train' rockets up sales charts, receives more critical praise
'The Girl on the Train' is by Paula Hawkins.
- 'Why Homer Matters' calls the ancient poet 'a guide to life'
To read Homer, says Adam Nicolson, is to feel 'a form of reassurance that in the end there is some kind of understanding in the world.'
- Reader recommendation: America in Retreat
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- Scott Blackwood's 'See How Small' attracts critical praise
Blackwood's novel centers on a crime that takes place in a Texas town, examining the aftermath of the crime – and the afterlives of its victims.
- 'The Terrible Two' writers Mac Barnett and Jory John embark on a whirlwind book tour
The writers reportedly visited 22 schools over the course of one week for their children's book. 'Two' centers on prankster rivals living in the town of Yawnee Valley.
- 'The Secret Wisdom of the Earth' lives up to its hype and then some
In this astonishingly confident debut novel, a teenager and his mother move to rural Kentucky seeking healing from a tragedy – only to discover a new form of trouble.
- 'Guantánamo Diary,' written by an inmate, reveals inside look at infamous prison
Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s personal diary, which was published Tuesday by Little, Brown, is being billed as the first book written by a Guantánamo detainee.
- Mark Zuckerberg announces next 'Year of Reading' Facebook pick
Zuckerberg is asking Facebook users to join him in reading certain titles this year. The next book to be part of the program is Steven Pinker's 'The Better Angels of Our Nature.'
- James Patterson: Some of his new books will self-destruct
One reader will have the opportunity to see a copy of Patterson's book 'Private Vegas' destroyed by a bomb squad, while other readers will see their e-versions of the book vanish after 24 hours.
- 10 university leaders share their personal reading lists Check out these books university luminaries are perusing right now.