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Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional

Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors. U.S.

Judge rules Arkansas law allowing criminal charges against librarians is unconstitutional

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors. U.S.
Book Review: Pip Drysdale's new Hollywood thriller 'The Close-Up' weighs legacy against love

Book Review: Pip Drysdale's new Hollywood thriller 'The Close-Up' weighs legacy against love

Drawn by sheer possibility and that magic, golden-hour light of Los Angeles, Zoe Ann Weiss moves from London to California when she gets her two-book-deal break.
Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker is out at least two games with left groin soreness

Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker is out at least two games with left groin soreness

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker will miss at least the next two games with left groin soreness in the latest blow to the team's starting lineup.
Order of Canada goes to advocates, athletes, scientists and Deadpool

Order of Canada goes to advocates, athletes, scientists and Deadpool

More than 40 years after being told she was a threat to Canada because of her sexuality, Diane Pitre is being given one of the country's top honours.
Kiran Desai to publish first novel since 'The Inheritance of Loss' came out nearly 20 years ago

Kiran Desai to publish first novel since 'The Inheritance of Loss' came out nearly 20 years ago

NEW YORK (AP) — A new novel from Kiran Desai , her first fiction since the Booker Prize-winning “The Inheritance of Loss” came out nearly 20 years ago, will be published next fall.

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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn (William Morrow) 2. Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Publishing Group) 3. The House of Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company) 4.

Rarely seen story by crime fiction master John D MacDonald offers clues to his best known work

NEW YORK (AP) — Crime writer John D. MacDonald, a master of the genre, was so prolific that sometimes even he couldn't keep up with what he was doing.
Book Review: 'The Rivals' is Jane Pek’s fine new mystery novel of online dating, love and death

Book Review: 'The Rivals' is Jane Pek’s fine new mystery novel of online dating, love and death

Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark cybersphere of tech systems in “The Rivals,” the second novel in a new mystery series by Jane Pek.
Detroit-area library says Chicago man can keep overdue baseball book -- 50 years later

Detroit-area library says Chicago man can keep overdue baseball book -- 50 years later

DETROIT (AP) — Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library. The answer: You can keep it — and no fine.