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FRONT ROYAL, Va. (AP) — A Virginia library that traces its roots to the 18th century could soon be shuttered over a dispute about children’s books that expose readers to gay, lesbian and transgender characters.

For those who have been paying attention to Elon Musk for at least the past couple years, Walter Isaacson's biography of the tech billionaire doesn't feel that surprising.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Payback in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 2. Holly by Stephen King (Scribner) 3. Tom Clancy Weapons Grade by Don Bentley (Penguin Publishing Group) 4.

As a leading blogger in the pre-Substack era, novelist and public-interest technologist Cory Doctorow often warned that Big Tech was rendering of cyberspace a polluted, dystopian, crassly commercial and often hostile world of limited options.

NEW YORK (AP) — Author Sandra Cisneros is this year's winner of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, honoring writers who help foster “understanding between and among people.

“Nineteen Steps” by Millie Bobby Brown (William Morrow) The actor who plays Eleven on “Stranger Things” wrote a romance novel! That’ll be the headline for too much coverage of “Nineteen Steps,” so let’s set that aside and consider the debut book from

NEW YORK (AP) — If you're thinking of checking out the new memoir by Elton John's lyricist to learn more about the Rocket Man, you're out of luck. This is Bernie Taupin's song to sing.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — As young children went back to school across Sweden last month, many of their teachers were putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice and devoting less time to tablets, independent online re

NEW YORK (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss has a book coming out next spring in which she will reflect on her years in government, offer advice for future leaders and recall lessons she learned while often being “the only conservative in

NEW YORK (AP) — After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.