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Maggie Stiefvater has brought her magical prose with her to her first adult novel. 鈥淭he Listeners鈥� takes place at a luxury hotel in West Virginia as World War II begins. In need of a place to store their foreign nationals 鈥� i.e.

(RNS) 鈥� 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.

The history of Chinese immigrants in America has always been about much more than one particular ethnic group.

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.

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.

Once a second banana, always a second banana when in the shadow of a brighter star. For musician and actor Desi Arnaz, that shadow belonged to Lucille Ball, his wife and co-star on the ground-breaking 1950s sitcom 鈥淚 Love Lucy.

At age 13, Sydney Singleton discovered an old photograph tucked away in a drawer in her paternal grandmother鈥檚 guest room. It was a portrait of a Black girl just entering her teen years 鈥� a girl who looked a lot like Sydney.

Is there a popular fiction writer alive who conveys falling in love better than Taylor Jenkins Reid? Consider these lines between the two central characters of her new love story, 鈥淎tmosphere,鈥� set in the 1980s as two NASA astronauts in the space shu

Taylor Jenkins Reid recalls a moment writing her new novel, 鈥淎tmosphere: A Love Story,鈥� set against NASA's robust 1980s shuttle program, where she felt stuck. She went, where she often goes, to her husband to talk it through.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Sen. Cory Booker has expanded upon his historic Senate floor speech from last month into an upcoming book. 鈥淪tand鈥� will be published Nov. 11, St. Martin's Press announced Wednesday.