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British Library to mark Harry Potter’s 20th with exhibition

LONDON (AP) -- It has been almost two decades since Harry Potter emerged from his cupboard under the stairs and the British Library plans to mark the occasion with an exhibition. The library announc...

Aug 9, 2016
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Winfrey picks Whitehead novel for book club

NEW YORK (AP) - Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick, Colson Whitehead's “The Underground Railroad,” a historical novel that imagines the network of safe houses and passages that helped slaves esca...

Aug 3, 2016
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Deep into the mind of a psychopath

“The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror” By Joyce Carol Oates Mysterious Press (336 pages, $24) When not writing fat, complicated novels that are some of the finest of our time, the ever-prolif...

Aug 3, 2016
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Exploring 1950s New York in ‘Three-Martini Lunch’

“Three-Martini Lunch” By Suzanne Rindell Putnam (512 pages, $27) “Nobody ever became a writer by just wanting to be one.” This terse advice by F. Scott Fitzgerald sets the scene for a compelling e...

Aug 3, 2016
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Negotiation with North Korea inevitable, writes policy expert Clemens

"North Korea and the World" by Walter C. Clemens Jr. (University Press of Kentucky) “North Korea and the World” By Walter C. Clemens Jr. University Press of Kentucky (443 pages, $39.95) North Kor...

Aug 3, 2016
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Panty lines and prom-posals: 'Inside Amy Schumer' writer Jessi Klein on invented problems

There’s a great scene in Jessi Klein’s new book, in which she is backstage at the Emmy Awards last year with her just-won statue -- and her breast pump. “On a professional level, it felt really good...

Aug 3, 2016
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Renowned Korean poet’s works translated to English for first time

Poet Jeong Ho-seung, known for unaffected musings on life, joy, sorrow, has published first Korean-English compilation

Aug 3, 2016
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Top-selling edition of Constitution by conservative press

NEW YORK (AP) - Since Khizr Khan held up a copy of the U.S. Constitution last week at the Democratic National Convention and offered to lend it to Republican nominee Donald Trump, sales for the gover...

Aug 3, 2016
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Duty and dreams in ‘Light of Paris’

“The Light of Paris” By Eleanor Brown G.P. Putnam’s Sons (320 pages, $26) Macalester alumna Eleanor Brown’s second novel (her first was the delightful best-seller “The Weird Sisters”) recapitulate...

Jul 27, 2016
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‘The Invoice,’ refreshingly original satire

“The Invoice” By Jonas Karlsson, translated from Swedish by Neil Smith Hogarth Press (204 pages, $24) The narrator of Jonas Karlsson’s “The Invoice” is a nice, mild guy. He works part-time in a vi...

Jul 27, 2016
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Contradictory rules that rule China

“5 Keys to Understanding China” By Ryu Jae-yun Seoul Selection (268 pages, 14,800 won, $13) Author Ryu Jae-yun says when managing business agreements in China, you might encounter instances when y...

Jul 27, 2016
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‘Sarong Party Girls’ takes an exciting plunge into the lives of modern Singaporean women

Pineapple tarts. The thought of those flaky butter cookies topped with pineapple jam made Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s stomach churn. She craved the taste of them. And she had a hunger for home. It was earl...

Jul 27, 2016
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Tim LaHaye, author of “Left Behind” end-times novels, dies

The Rev. Tim LaHaye, coauthor of the “Left Behind” series, a multimillion-selling literary juggernaut that brought end-times prophecy into mainstream bookstores, died Monday. He was 90. LaHaye died ...

Jul 27, 2016
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Heroine packs a comic punch

“Someone Please Have Sex With Me” By Gina Wynbrandt 2dcloud Comics & Graphic Novels (140 pages, $17.95) A girl and her Justin Bieber crush don’t exactly sound like the sort of material that darkly...

Jul 21, 2016
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'The Big Book of Science Fiction' a portal to endless reading pleasure

"The Big Book of Science Fiction" Edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer; Vintage (1,216 pages, $25) Surprisingly, the literary spirit that haunts Ann and Jeff Vandermeer's massive new anthology, "The ...

Jul 21, 2016
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