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According to the National Institute of Mental Health, one in 17 Americans suffer from serious mental illness. Four new memoirs ...

Booksellers and publishers are hoping a post-election flood of titles by brand-name authors can rescue their holiday season, ...

Reuters - A Hollywood paparazzo famous for being sued by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and getting his teeth knocked out by Marlon Brando is unapologetic about the guerrilla celebrity photography culture he helped pioneer.

I am reading Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War by Ernest B. Furgurson about the effect the Civil War had on the people living in Washington D.C. Very interesting book.

In her first novel in more than five years, award-winning author Karen Hesse rewards fans and new readers with Brooklyn Bridge, an imaginative look at immigrant life in early 1900s new york City. Once again, Hesse takes readers into a carefully researched world of historical fiction, brimming with details that ...

"American Lion," Jon Meacham's carefully analytical biography of Andrew Jackson, looks past the theatrics and posturing to the essential elements of Jackson's many showdowns.

Barack Obama's presidential win has already jump started one small sector of the economy: His books. Over the weekend The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father were the hottest sellers at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. Amazon actually ran out of hardcover and paperback editions of Audacity of Hope. While you wait, the online retailer lists more than two dozen other books out about the president-elect.

In this sequel to The Mummy Returns, Rick O'Connell and his family awaken an Emperor of ancient China and his terracotta army.

Stephen King sees potential nightmares in even the most mundane experiences. And his new collection of short stories mines the rest-stop idea to the max.

Those of us who were lit majors have known it all along: The novel works better than academic literature to explain global problems. But now some economists are validating that notion.