A collection of autobiographical sketches; a complicated Japanese mystery.

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In the first part of our series ahead of the Easter holidays, the award-winning author has a leaf through the best new children’s books that will get children laughing out loud Quirky gem ...

A Falls Church, Va., public library moved a pro-Palestinian alphabet book to a different location in its kids’ section this week following a review of the book by library staff. After the Mary ...

The drudgery of daily life — getting ready for work, work, cleaning, cooking, washing and on and on — inspired two seasoned improvisational comics to write a book on ways to break the cycle.

Rockwell’s Introduction to the book, where she writes about her association with him and Ashk’s remarkable life, is a delight on its own. It is also here that she elegantly describes his brand ...

The thirty-odd years spent abroad as a diplomatic spouse were interesting, to say the least. Besides the upheavals created by moves, settling down in different homes, domestic help problems ...

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"I started doing children's concerts online and had this idea for a kid's book," he says. "What if I wrote about a little girl who thinks she's going to the biggest concert of her life and it's ...