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Child star Mia Armstrong is working on a picture book about her experiences with Down syndrome

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Child star and activist Mia Armstrong has a picture book coming out next year about her experiences with Down syndrome, what her publisher calls 鈥渁ll the joys and challenges.

Jul 17, 2023 7:14 AM Read more >

鈥楬eal Me with Your Mouth. The Art of Kissing.' An old book sparks a new controversy in the Vatican

LA PLATA, Argentina (AP) 鈥� Three decades ago, when he was a parish priest in Argentina, the man named by Pope Francis to be the Catholic Church鈥檚 new guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy wrote a short book about kissing and the sensations it evokes.

Jul 17, 2023 6:15 AM Read more >

The man who threatened to burn holy books outside the Israeli Embassy in Sweden abandons the plan

STOCKHOLM (AP) 鈥� The man who said he would burn the Torah and the Bible outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm gave up his plan and instead held a one-person demonstration on Saturday against the burning of holy books, the media reported.

Jul 15, 2023 6:50 AM Read more >

Swedish police authorize protest by man who plans to burn Torah, Bible outside Israeli Embassy

STOCKHOLM (AP) 鈥� Stockholm police on Friday said they have authorized a protest this weekend by a man who has stated that he wants to burn the Torah and the Bible outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm.

Jul 14, 2023 6:42 AM Read more >

Hungary slams hefty fine on bookstore chain over LGBTQ+ graphic novel, says it violated law

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) 鈥� A government office in Hungary on Thursday levied a hefty fine against a national bookseller over a LGBTQ+ graphic novel, saying it violated a contentious law that prohibits the depiction of homosexuality to minors.

Jul 13, 2023 10:12 AM Read more >

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, a key witness at Jan. 6 hearings, has a book deal

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A former White House aide to President Donald Trump who became a prominent congressional witness against him and his allies in the wake of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol has a book deal.

Jul 13, 2023 3:01 AM Read more >

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� For colleges and libraries seeking a boldfaced name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation鈥檚 highest court.

Jul 11, 2023 5:43 PM Read more >

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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Too Late by Colleen Hoover - 9781538756614 - (Grand Central Publishing) 2. The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand - 9780316259385 - (Little, Brown and Company) 3.

Jul 11, 2023 9:22 AM Read more >

Review: 'Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS' gives singular access to the world鈥檚 biggest band

LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� 鈥淏eyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS鈥� by Myeongseok Kang and BTS (Flatiron Books) Like most releases from the world鈥檚 biggest band, the debut memoir from the seven-member K-pop group BTS , 鈥淏eyond the Story: 10-Year Record of B

Jul 10, 2023 5:50 PM Read more >

Book Review: John McPhee delivers a lovely 鈥榬eminiscence montage' in 鈥橳abula Rasa'

鈥淭abula Rasa, Volume 1鈥� by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) What do you do when your writing career lasts seven decades but you haven鈥檛 said everything you once thought about saying? If you鈥檙e John McPhee, you crack open your notebooks and giv

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