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It’s the summer of 1976, and life has not been kind to Tom and Alice. They’ve been trying for years to have a family, two attempts ending in a miscarriage and another in a baby that died at birth. They need a break.

Author Hank Phillippi Ryan has written a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours” about an author on tour to promote a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours.” As Ryan says in an endnote, it’s very meta.

NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Angela Flournoy, Kiran Desai and Megha Majumdar and a memoir by Arundhati Roy are among the finalists for the 12th annual Kirkus Prize, which comes with a $50,000 cash award for winners in fiction, nonfiction and young reade

Curling dragged a shy introvert into the spotlight because she was so good at the sport. Jennifer Jones chronicles her evolution from the youngster who snuck out of the St.

NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of Simon & Schuster, Jonathan Karp, is stepping down from his position, but will remain with the company as the head of a new imprint.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter (William Morrow) 2. Forever Country by Kathleen Brooks (Laurens Publishing) 3. We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) 4.

For Rebecca F. Kuang, who has had six bestsellers before the age of 30, an eternal afterlife of leisure scares her more than the idea of going to hell.

Imogene’s first serious love affair ended when she discovered her partner was unfaithful, and this has left the insecure young woman watchful and suspicious.

When we last saw Icelandic police detective Helgi Reykdal, he was lying unconscious in a pool of blood after being bashed in the head by his violent alcoholic wife in last fall’s “Death at the Sanatorium.

Talk about fake news: In 1907 a New York Times banner headline declared, “There Is Life On the Planet Mars.” Upping the ante the next year, the stodgy Wall Street Journal claimed “proof” of “conscious, intelligent human life” on our red neighbor.