Free samples, high-pressure pitches and $50,000 bills: An NPR investigation reveals how a network of mall skincare stores systematically targeted older adults and people with disabilities across the U.S..

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It’s been more than a decade since Lois Lowry has dealt with the end of the world. Her 1993 YA dystopian novel The Giver became a hugely popular middle school staple. She expanded that universe into a...

Hamilton was in her early thirties when she led the team of software engineers that powered NASA's Apollo missions. She later said, "There was no choice but to be pioneers."

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

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Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.

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Gavin Newsom calls comments ‘deranged and dangerous’ after president tells Nebraska rally: ‘They can take out a city’

Here are the works by authors on and of the West—including The Occidental Book of the Dead, Off the Reservation, and Passengers—that we’re most excited to see published this month.

Vroman’s Bookstore will celebrate the 50th anniversary edition of Interview with the Vampire with an event featuring Leigh Bardugo, Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn.

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A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she’s become one of the most important novelists of her generation.

The company said that Candyrific of Louisville, Ky., will produce the jelly candy that comes in a rainbow of colors and citrus flavors and is used in Jewish traditions.

pitch event for creators from marginalized communities.

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For National Literacy Month, explore our insider guide to the safe spaces supporting Black authors and authentic Black storytelling across the country.

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